Scientists have brought science fiction one step closer to reality by achieving the first two-way communication between individuals during lucid dreaming.
In an experiment reminiscent of a scene from the movie Inception, REMspace, a California-based startup that designs technology to enhance sleep and lucid dreaming, claims that messages were exchanged between two people while they were sleeping. It has been reported.
The company used “specially designed equipment” including “servers,” “equipment,” “Wifi,” and “sensors,” but did not disclose the exact technology it used.
As study participants slept in separate homes, REMspace researchers sent words created through their own languages between them.
Neurotechnology company claims to have achieved the first two-way communication between individuals during lucid dreaming
“Yesterday, communicating in dreams was like science fiction,” said Michael Raduga, CEO and founder of REMspace.
“Tomorrow, this technology will be so commonplace that we can’t imagine our lives without it.
“This opens the door to countless commercial applications and reshapes the way we think about communication and interaction in the dream world.”
This technology has not yet been reviewed or replicated by scientists. However, if validated, it would be a major milestone in sleep research and could have applications in mental health treatment, skills training, and more, REMspace said.
REMspace used “specially designed equipment” to enable two people to successfully exchange simple messages while lucid dreaming, the company claimed.
Lucid dreaming is when a person is aware that they are dreaming even though they are still in the dream state.
This allows them to perform autonomous actions in their dreams, rather than randomly interacting with the “dream world” without any sense of control.
This phenomenon occurs during REM sleep or rapid eye movement sleep, when we usually dream.
REMspace did not reveal exactly what equipment was used in the experiment, but It said the experiment included “devices” that tracked participants’ brain waves and other biological data during the experiment.
It also involved a “server” that could detect when a participant entered a lucid dream and generate a message to be sent to the participant.
While the two study participants slept in separate homes, their brainwaves were tracked remotely by a device that fed the data to a server.
The two study participants slept at home while their brain waves were tracked remotely by a device that fed data to a server.
When the server detected that one of the participants entered a lucid dream, it generated a random word and sent it to the participant via earphones.
Eight minutes later, the second participant entered a lucid dream. The server sent her a saved message from the first participant and repeated it when she woke up.
When the server detected that one of the participants entered a lucid dream, it generated random words from a special language and sent them to the participant via earphones.
Participants then repeated the words in their dreams, and their responses were captured and stored on a server.
Eight minutes later, the second participant entered a lucid dream. The server sent her a saved message from the first participant, which she repeated when she woke up.
REMspace was able to repeat this experiment with another pair of participants. But before the company can say for certain that it has achieved its dream communication, this research needs to undergo rigorous scrutiny.
Raduga is confident in his results and is widely known for his ambitious and sometimes bizarre experiments.
Raduga, 40, had electrodes implanted in his brain to “control his dreams”
The electrode implant is made of platinum and silicone. Raduga claimed that electrical triggers sent to these electrodes could influence the progress of lucid dreams.
In 2023, he risked his life when he tried to implant a microchip in his brain to control his dreams.
The 40-year-old, who is not a qualified neurosurgeon, likened his extremely dangerous experiment to the movie Inception and claimed his “electrodes” could one day change the course of lucid dreaming.
Gristy footage of the surgery shows him using a drill found at a hardware store to bulldoze the back of his skull while holding the skin with paper clips.
He watched hours of neurosurgical YouTube videos and practiced on five sheep before inserting a chip into his own brain. He hadn’t told anyone about his plans.
The chip was finally removed at the hospital after five weeks.
Although this highly risky research has not been published in any peer-reviewed journal or supported by any university, Laduga insisted he needed to do it for his own benefit.
“I’m glad I survived, but I was ready to die,” he told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview last year.
Now he has his sights set on another ambitious goal. It allows for real-time communication during lucid dreams.
“I believe that REM sleep and related phenomena like lucid dreaming will become the next big industry after AI,” Raduga said.
