This is a sensational claim, one that would be easy to perform a reality check on.
In the context of the current debate surrounding what constitutes a Smart City and the importance of smartphones and mobile in this area, we perform a reality check, using Brussels as a case.
Roughly 10 times each day, you should perform a "reality check" to remind your conscious mind that you are awake.
Set the watch to alarm every hour and perform a reality check every time the alarm goes off.
As you go to perform a reality check, you will become aware of the fact that you are dreaming, making it easier to control and recall your dream.
In order to test this prediction and to elucidate the role of the EC, we first applied a model-based approach on fMRI data acquired while participants were performing a virtual-reality navigation task to directly mimic studies in rodents (see 'Materials and methods' for details).
One step they advocate is to regularly perform a simple reality test.
Twenty-five headultsadults performed a virtual reality fMRI task that required learning to use extra-maze cues to navigate an 8-arm radial maze and find hidden rewards.
We speculate that the experience is not elevated to full-blown belief because participants very well know that they could perform a disconfirming reality test on their experience, if only the experimenter would allow them to take off the head-mounted display or move their arm around freely.
After each scanning session, participants performed a virtual reality spatial memory task analogous to the Morris water maze and a mirror-tracing procedural memory control task.
