Lucid dreaming is not a common occurrence for most slumbering people, yet two 30-year-old investors have created a sleep mask they claim can make your dreams a reality or at least controllable. Known as the Remee Sleep Mask the gadget uses specially timed LED lights to notify you of your dreams.
According to the inventors the mask contains six red LED lights that are bright enough to grab your brains attention but not bright enough to wake you up as you sleep.
As your brain realizes the red lights are flashing during REM sleep you are suddenly aware of your dreams and therefore able to control them.
According to the inventors the ability to lucid dream is not easy to realize and therefore the mask likely will not work every single time you put it on.
While the idea of controlling your dreams might sound far fetched a lot of people are already on-board with a Kickstarter page raking in $572,891 for a product that originally requested just $35,000 in funding.
The money raised comes from more than 6,000 backers who want to try out the $95 Remee sleep make for themselves.
The Remee sleep mask starts shipping in July and if it doesn’t work at least buyers will have a cool new psychedelic sleep mask to wear while they sleep.
In the meantime here is a video from Kickstarter which explains the Remee sleep mask in more detail:
Have you taken the bait and signed up for a Remee sleep mask of your very own?
I find it hard to believe that they are actually claiming to have discovered or invented this. The concept and the apparatus have been around for a long time. The creator is Stephen LaBerge – excerpt from WKpedia below.
"Stephen LaBerge (born 1947) is a psychophysiologist and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. In 1967 he received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics. He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology at Stanford University, which he received in 1980.[1] He developed techniques to enable himself and other researchers to enter a lucid dream state at will, most notably the MILD technique (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams), which was necessary for many forms of dream experimentation.[2] In 1987, he founded The Lucidity Institute, an organization that promotes research into lucid dreaming, as well as running courses for the general public on how to achieve a lucid dream.[3].
His technique of signalling to a collaborator monitoring his EEG with agreed-upon eye movements during REM became the first published, scientifically verified signal from a dreamer's mind to the outside world. The first confirmed signal came from Alan Worsley under study in England; however his group did not publish their results until later.[4] Though the technique is simple, it opens broad new avenues of dream research and pushed the field of dream research, or oneirology, beyond its protoscientific and largely discredited psychoanalytic roots, establishing it as a fruitful and respectable discipline."
This reminds me of the movie "The Cell".
I don't know about having a massive EMF board stuck to my pineal gland at night… cool idea at first, but I don't see this being a wise choice in the long-run.
YEP, It is called the Nova Dreamer. http://www.novadreamer.com
I wanted one so bad in '71 of course when I actually had a lot more control over my lobes. I don't remember what he called the first one but it was $2400 then. Corpus Callosum was smokin'. Tried to talk my rich friend into getting one but I think with all the lickable toads and inhalatory libation the purpose was pre-defeated most of the time. All patents must pass but cheeze whiz credit where credit is due. Did I mention my cousin Kerwin once removed and twice replaced was actually responsible for the unified left field theory.