Dream on
Lucid dreamers — people who find themselves conscious they’re dreaming whilst it’s going down — are serving to scientists probe the napping thoughts in actual time, Maria Temming reported in “Dispatches from the dreamscape” (SN: 8/26/23, p. 16).
A number of readers shared their stories lucid dreaming.
“I’ve been ready to regulate a dream near to as effectively as a captain can regulate an oil tanker. I will steer the dream however no longer totally regulate it,” reader Peter Adams wrote. “I bear in mind [my lucid dreams], and 3 have turn out to be the root of science fiction tales I’m writing.… I even dreamed a musical composition that I wrote down once I awoke. The song sounds relatively excellent.”
Reader John wrote: “I’ve been a lucid dreamer all my lifestyles. I’m now 71, and I bear in mind maximum of my goals. I realized years in the past that I may regulate or even trade the path {that a} dream was once going.… I regulate them like a film director.… I as soon as dreamed that I used to be water-skiing, even right down to the skin stress of the water I used to be on. And the next day to come, I attempted snowboarding for the primary time and were given proper up the primary try to felt that very same sensation.”
Supplemental knowledge?
Chemical analyses of 57 sports activities dietary supplements printed that best 11 p.c comprise a correct quantity of key components marketed. One of the most dietary supplements even comprise compounds prohibited by way of the U.S. Meals and Drug Management, Meghan Rosen reported in “Dietary supplements lack key components” (SN: 8/26/23, p. 10).
Some readers requested why the tale didn’t checklist the dietary supplements studied.
Rosen additionally puzzled which dietary supplements have been arising brief. However that knowledge isn’t publicly to be had. “The researchers made an settlement with the lab they collaborated with not to make the names of the goods they examined public,” Rosen says. “Within the period in-between, shoppers’ perfect wager is also to appear to third-party organizations that review nutritional dietary supplements’ high quality.”
Correction
In “The thymus isn’t so expendable in the end” (SN: 8/26/23, p. 7), Science Information wrote that over 12 p.c of people that underwent a thymectomy evolved an autoimmune dysfunction inside 5 years after surgical procedure, when put next with about 8 p.c of those that stored their thymus — a 1.5 instances better possibility. It might were extra correct to put in writing that thymectomy sufferers have 1.5 instances the chance of sufferers who stored their thymus.