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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.
On the night of the 24th when the REMspace participant entered this state, the connected hardware they were wearing pinged a remote server that generated a random Remmyo word (Remmyo is a type of dream language that is detectable using sensors). The word was sent to the earbuds the person was wearing, and they repeated it in their dream.
The dreamer's response – the Remmyo word – was then captured and stored on the server. Eight minutes later, another participant entered a lucid dream and received the stored message from the first user. When she woke, she confirmed the word – successfully demonstrating the first-ever "chat" exchange between two dreaming participants.
REMspace said two other participants were also able to communicate with its server while dreaming.
The startup's founder and CEO, Michael Raduga, said communicating in dreams seemed like science fiction yesterday. "Tomorrow, it will be so common we won't be able to imagine our lives without this technology," the executive added.
Raduga said the capability opens the door to countless commercial applications, but stopped short of giving any specific examples. "We believe that REM sleep and related phenomena, like lucid dreams, will become the next big industry after AI," he noted.
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?
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Tuesday October 22, @03:48PM (1 child)
I haven't used an alarm clock in about 30 years. When I was in college and delivered newspapers I found that having to wake up every day (that's 365 days, not M-F) at 3:30am did something to my brain that allows me to simply think, before I fall asleep, what time I need to wake up. Somehow my dreams never seem to get interrupted either, and I have lucid dreams almost every night.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 22, @09:01PM
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I use the alarm to wake me up 'cos if i don't i'd sleep too late and my son would get too much sleep and be up even more hours and we'd get even less sleep and..........
My wife and i just try to trade off, letting each of us get as much sleep as we can over time while getting less/little sleep day to day.
I have trouble falling asleep while my wife falls asleep and wakes up on a dime.
So she falls asleep quickly, but will often wake up during the night to put him back to bed after he goes to the bathroom, while i stay up with him until he gets quiet and then i go to sleep and usually sleep through til the alarm.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---