In one of the breakthroughs, a startup company was able to actualize the Inception scene, by making two people communicate in their dreams.
It’s not a sci-fi movie, but a reality that has been achieved by a U.S based startup “REMspace”. Modern day technologies have been justifying the quote “if you can dream it, you can achieve it”, by allowing scientists do wonders with their research.
Likely to the above quote, this startup stunned the reality by allowing two asleep people to communicate in their lucid dreams – a breakthrough which may uncover remote communication during REM sleep.
Communicating in Dream
Startup named REMspace, which designs technology to enhance sleep and lucid dreaming, conducted an experiment where they communicated a message between two people who were asleep in their respective homes.
Lucid dreaming is when a person is aware they are dreaming while still in the dream state. REMspace used specially designed equipment, a server, apparatus Wi-Fi and sensors to make this happen, the company said.
The experiment goes like this. The participants of the study were in their separate homes. The team used an ‘apparatus’ which is capable of tracking brainwaves of participants and other biological data during the experiment and a ‘server’ which can detect if a person enters lucid dream and transmits messages to them.
When a participant went to sleep, the server detected when the person entered lucid dream, and it generated a random word from the special language and transmitted it to him via earbuds.
The participant then repeated this word in his dream, and that response was captured and stored in the server. After eight minutes, when the second participant entered lucid dream, the server transmitted the stored message from the first to the second participant, which the second person repeated upon awakening.
The startup did the experiment with another pair of participants and achieved the same.
“This opens the door to countless commercial applications, reshaping how we think about communication and interaction in the dream world,” said the CEO and founder of REMspace Michael Raduga.
A far way to go
The experiment though considered to uncover the importance about sleep, dreams and brain, it is not yet reviewed or validated by scientists. If validated, it would be a major milestone for sleep research and could provide applications for mental health treatment, skills training and more, REMspace said.
“The founder Michael Raduga is so ambitious about this project and believes it would be the next hot and trending topic after AI,” Dailymail reported.
It’s not the first time where dreams are being targeted. Earlier, MIT scientists developed a wearable device that can influence dreams, aiming to deliver a peaceful sleep. The research however, was been approached by big companies like Microsoft, Burger King, Sony and few more, to leverage the technology for advertising their products in people go through lucid dreams. You can read about this fully HERE.
Considering the extent to which technology can intrude in people’s personal lives in the name of ‘enhancing’ it, these researches possibly increase the ways of exploitation of common people’s lives. Commercializing digital products that impacts the health of the people would abrupt people’s lives in the long-term, though it aims to enhance it in short-term.
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