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- From: mkuhn@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Martin W Kuhn)
- Subject: Re: 'DreamLight' wanted!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173602.26074@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <1992Nov16.111944.4390@kth.se> <1992Nov16.224105.18949@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:36:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.224105.18949@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> johnh@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (John Haddy) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.111944.4390@kth.se>, e92_anh@vaxkab.lne.kth.se () writes:
- >|> On Sunday 15 November 1992, I was watching 'Beyond 2000' on Discovery
- >|> channel. One of the wonders they were showing this time was an apparatus
- >|> to -while you're sleeping- detect your REM's and then tell you that you
- >|> are dreaming (by flashing lights in front of your eyes for a while).
- >|> 'DreamLight' I think it was called.
- >|>
- >|> The idea is that you ACTUALLY CAN PERCIEVE THIS while sleeping and thus
- >|> get aware of the fact that what you are experiencing is, in fact, a
- >|> dream! Well, hey! This sounds cool, does it not?
-
- I saw this thing in a catalog once several months ago. (No, I don't
- remember what catalog it was) Interesting idea, but I'm doubtful as to
- it actually *working* or not. It was quite expensive-- something like
- US $1500 or something rediculous like that. An electronic cue for
- dreaming might be fun, but I bet you'd get similar results just wiring
- up a pair of LED's in a pair of swim goggles with a flasher circuit to,
- say, flash the LED's for around 30 seconds every hour or so. If you
- don't happen to be in REM sleep when the LED's flash, then nothing happens
- anyway. I'm sure the LED's would happen to flash during REM sleep enough
- times to make it effective, if the idea is sound. Personally, I'm not sure it
- would work anyway; most minor external stimuli gets "masked" in some way
- during dream stages; I doubt you'd get enough of a definite "cue" to promote
- lucid dreaming. Perhaps I'll give the "swim goggle" circuit a try just
- to see what happens...
-
- Anyway, I don't think you're missing anything by not being able to find
- one of these in your country.... Sounds like a waste of US $1500 to me...
-
- --Marty
-