People spend one-third of their lives sleeping. One way to make good use of this time could be to carry out daily tasks while asleep. Researchers at REMspace Michael Raduga, Andrey Shashkov, and Andrey Vanin have found a way for people to turn on the lights, a kettle, and a radio while asleep. As a result, some routine morning actions were completed before they even woke up.
In a new study, an experienced lucid dreamer slept in a laboratory with two apparatuses. One of them recorded the stages of sleep, and the other read electrical impulses from the practitioner’s hands and face while he was dreaming. These impulses were then converted into commands given to a smart speaker that was connected to a light bulb and an electric kettle; it also had a built-in radio. When the subject found himself in a lucid dream, he tensed the combinations of muscles that were linked to the smart home. The subject was able to turn the lights and radio on and off, and he boiled water using the kettle. During this time, the apparatus showed that his brain was in REM sleep.
Michael Raduga, CEO of REMspace stated, “When we drank tea in the laboratory using the water which was boiled by a command from a dream, we felt a taste of the future. Within a few years, such technologies will begin to blur the line between dreams and reality. Gradually, people will learn not only to control dreams but also to use them for personal and everyday purposes.”
Previously, researchers from REMspace demonstrated the real-time transmission of music and speech from dreams, showed that a virtual Cybertruck can be controlled from sleep, and tested a brain implant for controlling dreams.
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A preprint of the article has been published on PsyArXiv.
Illustration by Anna Kladova.
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