PARIS: Scientists on Sunday said they had used a harmless electrical current to modify sleep so that an individual has "lucid dreams," a particularly powerful form of dreaming.

The discovery provides insights into the mechanism of dreaming -- an area that has fascinated thinkers for millennia -- and may one day help treat mental illness and post-trauma nightmares, they said.

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