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by numewhodis 597 days ago
> surprisingly the amygdala is inactive and norepinephrine is 85% lower than base waking levels

Why is that surprising? The body is sleeping, your senses are mostly off, reaction times are irrelevant. The brain is not necessarily super relaxed.

I remember that I had to actively react in lucid dreams because my instinctive reactions were slow as fuck.