A groundbreaking scientific achievement has been made, this time involving the realm of dreams. A California-based start-up claims to have demonstrated that lucid dreaming can allow for a new form of communication.
REMspace, a neurotechnology company focused on enhancing sleep and lucid dreaming, successfully guided two participants into lucid dreams where they exchanged messages using specialized equipment.
Although lucid dreaming is widely known, it’s not fully understood. According to REMspace, lucid dreams have two key characteristics: individuals are fully aware during the experience, and they recognize a distinct separation from their physical body. In other words, people know they are dreaming while still within the dream.
Researchers confirmed communication between the two participants by monitoring their brain waves and other polysomnographic data through their custom technology. When the first participant entered a lucid dream state, a server generated a random word in Remmyo, the first electromyographical language, and delivered it via earbuds. The participant then repeated the word in the dream. Eight minutes later, the second participant entered a lucid dream and received the stored message.
The accuracy of the communication was confirmed when the second participant awoke and shared the word she had received. Remarkably, the two participants were in separate houses during the experiment, which took place on September 24.
Michael Raduga, the founder and CEO of REMspace, called this breakthrough a game-changer, saying: “Yesterday, communicating in dreams seemed like science fiction. Tomorrow, it will be so common we won’t be able to imagine life without it.”
Raduga also noted that this development could have vast commercial applications, transforming how we perceive communication within dreams. He predicted that REM sleep and phenomena like lucid dreaming could become the next major industry, following artificial intelligence.
This achievement comes after five years of research and development, with REMspace now aiming to enable real-time communication during lucid dreams.