Researchers at REMspace have developed a cutting-edge device integrating sleep-stage trackers and electromyography (EMG) sensors to detect movements inside dreams. The EMG sensors were placed on the arms of the nine lucid dreamers, who were trained to control the car by straining their left arm for forward motion and their right arm for turning. During the lucid dreaming phase, audio signals via earbuds or LED lights alerted them to obstacles in the dream environment.
Despite the presence of sleep paralysis, the sensors detected residual muscle activity from participants’ dream-state movements. A server remotely identified when participants entered a lucid dreaming state and translated the EMG signals into commands for the RC car. Four participants successfully controlled the RC car in REMspace’s lab directly from their dreams. Though brief, their control included navigation and obstacle avoidance, representing a critical step in bridging the gap between dreams and the physical world.
This achievement builds on REMspace’s previous peer-reviewed studies, including one where dreamers controlled virtual objects and interacted with a Tesla in a simulated environment. Now sleeping individuals have been able to control physical, moving objects. Sci-fi becomes reality; for the first time, dreamers manipulate the physical world. By year’s end 2025, the company plans to make this technology commercially available, allowing people worldwide to explore the untapped potential of lucid dreaming.
How would you use such an opportunity?
The video of the experiment is available on YouTube:
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