hi all

i am very new to all this and just started a dream journal 5 nights ago.

the other day somthing ocooured to me. i have a disabled brother (very similar to autism), he is 15 and can say about 5 words in total and a lot of the time he tries to talk but we cant understand him.
he is very clever, he can work out electrical equipment very easily (eg cd players tv's). he also understands pretty much all we say.
so the problem is he cant communicate, you could say there is a barrier between his inner brain and his body.

well with dreaming you venture into you inner brain, you could almost say that it is at the core of the brain. and like i said, his problem is he cant communicate, and i have every reason to assume that in his dreams, he could well communicate as there would be no 'barrier' between his mind and his body, there is only his mind.

if he had a lucid dream, because it would still be in his dream, he may well be able to fully communicate also. just him dreaming about successful communication probably would be enough to help in real life.
but if he could conciously communicate in a lucid dream, this could help him break down the 'communication barrier' in real life, thus help him to understand how to talk.

teaching him lucid dreaming would be to hard for him to understand, but iv heard about devices that can initiate lucid dreaming.

i am very new to this whole concept of lucid dreaming and have never had a full on lucid dream, only semi concious ones.
have scientists looked into this concept, if not, could i be onto somthing.

what are your opinions on it