NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/dreams/4063

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From: [e-mail] (Rick Cavasin)
Subject: Re: EOG (was Dream characters with their own minds)
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My guess is that EOG is Electro-ocularo-gram or some such, ie.
a system of transducers
which converts eye movement into electrical signals to
record patterns in a subject's eye movement.  Such a devise
does exist (has for a long time), and I believe that EOG would
be the appropriate acronym.

I seem to remember a posting way back in the dim and distant past
in which this was mentioned.  What happens is, the experimenter and
subject pre-arrange an eye movement pattern (eg. look up, look right,
look up, look down, etc.) that will act as a 'signal' from the subject
to the experimenter to indicate that the subject has achieved lucidity.
The experimenter follows the EOG (which would be all over the place
during REM sleep) and tries to spot the pre-arranged 'signal' pattern
(this scanning could presumably be automated).  When the subject or
'dreamer' achieves lucidity, he performs the 'signal' pattern to
alert the experimenter without leaving the dream state.  My building
up a 'vocabulary' of signals, crude communication would be possible.
How the 'other dream characters' can use the dreamer's eye movements
to communicate to the outside world (ie. the experimenter) is another
question.  Maybe the dreamer acts as a relay or 'medium'.  I would think
that a fairly extensive vocabulary of signals would be needed to
achieve what we would call 'communication'.

Cheers,
Rick C.