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by GoodOldNe 2867 days ago
This is an interesting study but I have several methodologic concerns and feel like nobody is discussing conflict of interest here. This is done at an institute owned and managed by one researcher, recruited from attendees of a seminar on lucid dreaming, approved by the ethics committee of that institute, and using a gold standard self-report rating scale that the primary author also invented. I am very curious about what they used for their active placebo. I suppose research on dreaming and the interaction of drugs with dreaming is pretty interesting and sparse, so I'll take what I can get but it would be cool to see this replicated in a more generalizable way before anyone starts trying this at home.
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Indeed, the world needs a better way to fund health and research.