One participant, whose brain waves indicated she was fully awake, reported seeing ants crawling on her body against a backdrop of crossword puzzles. Another, confirmed asleep on EEG, was calmly running through his schedule for the next day.
Those two reports capture the findings. A study from the Paris Brain Institute, published in Cell Reports, suggests that what passes through the mind is not dictated by whether a person is technically awake or asleep.
