Thread: Dreaming Mask Using Proven Brain Stimulation?

I've always wanted a lucid dreaming mask of some sort like the Remee or NovaDreamer, but I could never justify pulling the trigger. I knew it would probably help but I didn't think it would help much. I found this through a Facebook ad. It's called the Lucid Dreamer. It doesn't use flashing LEDs against your eyes, but detects when your REM stage starts and then applies stimulation to the part of the brain associated with awareness in dreams. (Link to their website below)

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This is similar to an idea I had come up with when I was a child, something that stimulates the part of your brain associated with lucid dreaming while you're in the dream, so I am very excited for this thing to launch! They're using the same methods and techniques as Ursula Voss did in a 2014 study which yielded a 77% success rate.

I got in contact with the creators and asked if they were assuming the same success rate with this product. They said,

"Yes we expect the success rate to be very similar since we use the exact same method of stimulation. In the Voss study, they had research assistants sitting next to the bed who judged the onset of a dream by looking at the eye movements. We use dream (REM) onset detection using EEG (a measure of brain activity). This is the most accurate way of automatic REM detection, with an accuracy percentage of 85%. So our success rate may be a bit lower than 77%, because the accuracy of the REM state is not 100%. Our personal experience is that if you stimulate a couple of times in a night, you are bound to induce a lucid dream at least once."

So essentially, in their personal experience they were pretty much guaranteed at least one lucid dream if they set the Lucid Dreamer to stimulate a few times during the night.

I am very okay with those odds.

I'm going to try and get my hands on one and do a video review for you guys as soon as they get funded on Kickstarter and make them. Does this sound like a promising concept to you guys??

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