The experiment involved participants utilizing specialized equipment including sensors and earbuds. On September 24, one participant sleeping at home induced lucid dreaming, a state in which you are aware that you are dreaming. It is apparently a trainable skill, although I have only ever personally experienced it a handful of times throughout my life.
If this becomes reality we’ll be learning lucid dreaming to avoid dream ads.
As if privacy wasn’t already hard enough.
Yikes
While no doubt fascinating, it is also a bit frightening. The idea of commercializing dreams sounds ripe for misuse and if we’re being force-fed content even while we are sleeping, when will we ever be able to truly unplug and get any actual rest?
(A more) dystopian future in 3, 2…
We need a remake of dreamscape now
Researchers at a California-based sleep startup claim it’s possible to communicate with others while dreaming.
Is there some published article in a respected peer reviewed scientific journal?
If not, this may as well be the typical startup “fake it until you make it (or disappear)”.Interesting, but I didn’t see a relation with the start up. Are they not really the first then?
No, the proof has been established for decades.
[citation needed]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6877973/
This is the original study from 1983, where conscious eye movements during REM sleep were used to communicate to the researchers while sleeping.
Proving for the first time that communication during sleep is possible, 4 decades ago.
the lucid dreaming communication experiment itself is decades old now, people in lucid dreams have communicated to conscious scientists by moving their eyes in patterns to communicate with sleep scientists talking to the dreamer or playing sounds for them while in a lucid dream state to indicate their understanding of what was happening in the waking world.
The “first” they’re talking about is the same phenomenon shared between two people in a lucid dream, rather than one.
which is cool in its own right.
heres a recent article about similar sleep studies:
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-entered-peoples-dreams-and-got-them-talking
“I’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”
What do you think the business founder has in mind when they say this is revolutionary? Like what regular use could this be put to?
Maybe more working hours for office workers. Everyone can do another 8 hours of lucid night shift.
Pretty cool article. Thanks for sharing.
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It also helps to start doing reality checks while awake such that they become habitual enough to occur while dreaming. You want to specifically check things that tend to be vulnerable to dream logic like clocks or books because they’ll often change if you look away and check / read them a second time.
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Literally Hypnospace Outlaw.
Edit: Dreamsettler can’t come soon enough.
If it is really possible to reliably train oneself to lucid dream, that’s probably as far as it should go… Beyond there lies madness
Literally
Ideal: “Oh wow! I could hang out with friends in my dreams! Conversations on the moon!!”
Reality: “You’re late”
Bonus: “We don’t have to pay them anything because they’re not physically at work!”
“Timecards… Timecards… Remember to fill out your timecards”
