Discover new mechanisms of creative thinking It is related to the lucid dream, frequent in narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder caused by the brain’s inability to normally regulate sleep cycles and wake up. It affects 0.02% of the population.

People who suffer from it experience frequent impulses to sleep and in some cases fall asleep involuntarily while talking or even while driving.

Narcolepsy sometimes manifests itself with the loss of muscle tone (cataplexy), with hallucinations while dreaming or upon awakening, and even with brief episodes of total paralysis.

But despite these drawbacks, scientists have now discovered that narcoleptic people enjoy a privilege with respect to other people: they are more creative.

Creativity and dream

In neuroscience, creativity is defined as the ability to produce something original from new associations between ideas and known concepts.

Integrates different processes of cognitive interactions (conscious and unconscious) and emotional and has been established that depends largely on the strength of the neural connections…