Draoi Rúnda<p>Something about <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/OBE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OBE</span></a> / <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/AstralTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstralTravel</span></a> that I'm curious about, as a neophyte, is whether the phenomenon of "Dream Dyslexia" applies:</p><p><a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LucidDreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucidDreaming</span></a> is commonly compared, contrasted, or asserted to be a form of Astral Travel. In a Lucid Dream, you are asleep, and as such parts of your brain are essentially inoperative. Apparently, including the bits that handle glyphs and symbols, because for many people (myself included), text is fluid and hard to read while asleep, or changes when you look away, etcetera. Essentially, while asleep it seems many, most, or even all of us are dyslexic.</p><p>So if the phenomena of OBEs/Astral Travel (which are real "phenomena" whether you accept them as spiritually valid or mere states of mind) are related, do they have the same neurological quirks?</p><p>This is pretty directly relevant to research into these phenomena, because one of the most common "tests" or "challenges" applied to Astral Travel etcetera is to read a codephrase or number off a hidden message somewhere, and these studies often generate very unreliable results. What if there's a fundamental neurological reason why such tests are inappropriate?</p><p>Perhaps instead of text, we should be using combinations of unambiguous forms (figurines) in various unambiguous colours? E.g., a pallette of 7 very different animals in 7 different colours gives us 49 possibilities but should be easy to interpret even for a low-lucidity traveller... Once you control for colourblindness I guess.</p>