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Article by: Takia Mustafiz
On September 24 2024, REMspace, a startup in Silicon Valley, California, made an unimaginable discovery that may change how we communicate entirely. It was proven that two individuals managed to communicate through the state of lucid dreaming from their own two separate homes.
But first of all, what is a lucid dream?
In short, a lucid dream is a type of dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming in their dream. This occurs during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which is one of the stages of the sleep cycle characterized by rapid movements of the eye under closed eyelids (Dr. Alan Thomas Charly, MBBS) and lasts about 80 to 100 minutes.
The main difference from a normal dream is that lucid dreams give them the power to manipulate their dream in any way they want, making them able to solve physiological problems or learn a new set of skills.
You may ask, how is it even possible to “chat” with each other in our dreams?
Well, for starters, REMspace has developed a dream language called Remmyo that can be detected through sensitive sensors from their earlier experiments on facial electromyography.
Using a specially developed apparatus, their brain waves and other polysomnographic data were tracked as the two participants slept in their homes. So, a random Remmyo word was sent to the first participant when he first entered a lucid dream through his earbuds. He then repeated the word in his dream so that the server captured and stored his response.
Exactly eight minutes later, the second participant entered a lucid dream and received the message stored by the server previously and confirmed it after waking up, being the first to have a “chat” exchanged in dreams. Along with them, two other participants managed to accomplish this as well.
This accomplishment successfully achieved an almost identical concept to the plot of the movie, Inception, a 2010 sci-fi action film where the main character, Dom Cobb (played by Leonardo Dicaprio), a skilled thief steals priceless secrets of megacorporations from the subconsciousness of high ranking officials.
These successful communications were only fruitful after 5 years of hard work in research and technological development and are now working to improve it, getting more improved results at each attempt.
To make it even better, REMspace is setting its eyes on enabling real-time communication in dreams. A complex goal but the team is determined and confident enough to say that it can be developed in just a few months.
"Yesterday, communicating in dreams seemed like science fiction. Tomorrow, it will be so common we won’t be able to imagine our lives without this technology,” Michael Raduga, founder and CEO of REMspace said, “This opens the door to countless commercial applications, reshaping how we think about communication and interaction in the dream world. That's why we believe that REM sleep and related phenomena, like lucid dreams, will become the next big industry after AI."
By 2025, the company will release LucidMe PRO – the world’s first device that will combine the functions of LucidMe with polysomnography. This will help to track EEG, EOG, and EMG through a mobile app and accurately see all sleep stages.
Citations:
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra (2024, Oct 16). Two people ‘communicate in dreams’: Inception movie-styled sci-fi turned into reality. Interesting Engineering.
Breakthrough from REMspace: First Ever Communication Between People in Dreams. (2024, Oct 08). Businesswire.
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