You will be able to control your dreams: an innovative device is being developed in the USA
Prophetic, founded earlier this year, is entering a new market for the unconscious with an innovative headgear called “Halo” that will allow you to induce lucid dreaming.
This was reported by Science Alert.
Lucid dreaming is a state of being aware that you are dreaming during your sleep cycle and being able to control or manipulate the dream story. Up to 70% of people experience this phenomenon at least once in their lives.
Allowing clients to access lucid dreaming can pave the way for productivity at night – for example, engineers can code in their sleep.
Since people spend approximately one-third of their lives asleep, Prophetic wants to undermine the lack of activity that occurs during sleep by inducing a state of lucid dreaming.
Working in collaboration with Afshin Mehin, the designer of Elon Musk’s Neuralink N1 brain implant company, Prophetic aims to take sleep to a new level of control.
Halo is worn like a crown and aims to give users control over their dreams. The device uses a combination of ultrasound and machine learning models created from EEG and fMRI data to detect when users are in REM sleep to induce and stabilize lucid dreaming.
“Together, we will seek answers to life’s biggest questions,” the researchers note.
Prophetic is expected to deliver data from the institute in the spring of 2024 and release the devices in the spring of 2025 at a price of $1,500 to $2,000 each.
The product is based on research from the Donders Institute in the Netherlands, which targets specific brain areas and ultrasound frequencies for optimal lucid dream induction.
The company has seen significant interest, generating “several hundred thousand dollars in booking revenue” within the first few weeks of the booking opening, hinting at a potentially significant user base eagerly awaiting the product’s release.
However, some experts are skeptical that lucid dreaming can be turned into useful tools.
