Well Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan, the 30-year-old founders of Bitbanger Labs, claim that Remee is “the world’s first “comfortable affordable, lucid dreaming mask.”
They say “the key to lucid dreaming is recognizing when you’re dreaming.”
While asleep, a person will usually cycle through the five stages of sleep multiple times, with the REM (rapid eye movement) stages getting progressively longer.
Working on an adjustable time delay, six red LED lights embedded in the mask “glow, sweep and blink” over one’s eyelids. The duo claims that once a sleeper slips from non-REM to REM sleep (where dreams usually occur) a microcontroller will flash a series of customizable light patterns for 15 to 20 seconds, with a second delay of 15 minutes between each signal.
As the lights bleed into your dream, they present a “perfect chance to become lucid.”
They say that while not bright enough to wake the user up, the lights will appear as anomalies in a person’s dreams, alerting the sleeper that they are dreaming.
As with similar masks, Remee cannot guarantee seamless lucid dreams with the blink of a light. But if the mask actually delivers on its promise, then the (vanilla) sky may no longer be the limit.
Do you have the urge to control your dreams? Most people have a hard time remembering their dreams much less being in control of them. Why have we always wanted to control and manipulate our dreams? Maybe dreams provide a means to being free, an alternate place for our minds to escape. Do we crave the control there in that realm because we don't have it while we are awake? Well with the morpheous mask controlling our dreams is that much more of a "reality".
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