Not enough hours in the day? A startup offers working and chatting in dreams

A California-based startup, REMspace, offers the possibility of working, learning, or chatting in dreams. The founder, Michael Raduga, claims to have made significant advances.

REMspace offers the alternative through lucid dreaming, which occurs when a person in REM sleep is aware of being in a dream and can control aspects of it. A year ago, the company said workers like programmers could do their jobs while sleeping.

REMspace demonstrated that facial electromyography sensors, used in neurological diagnostics, could decode sounds produced in dreams. This discovery contributed to the creation of Remmyo, a sensor-identifiable dream language.

Michael Raduga's goal was to facilitate communication between two people who were in a lucid dream state.

On September 24, 2024, the start-up conducted an experiment in which two sleeping participants had a dream "conversation" from different homes under constant monitoring.

When the first participant entered a lucid dream, the device monitoring his brainwaves generated a random word in Remmyo and sent it to him through his headphones.

The participant received the word and repeated it in his sleep, an actiont that the remote device monitored and stored.

After eight minutes, the other participant entered the lucid dream state and received the same word. Once awake, he confirmed it.

Raduga commented on the experiment's success, as quoted by Business Wire: "Yesterday, communicating in dreams seemed like science fiction. Tomorrow, it will be so common we won't be able to imagine our lives without this technology."

"This opens the door to countless commercial applications, reshaping how we think about communication and interaction in the dream world," he continued.

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"That's why we believe that REM sleep and related phenomena, like lucid dreams, will become the next big industry after AI," Reduge concluded.

Despite the excitement, the experiment results still lack peer review. So, until the scientific community validates them, communication during lucid dreams remains purely speculative.

This was not the company's first successful experiment. According to the Guardian, REMspace has demonstrated the feasibility of transferring the rhythm of dreamed music in a different investigation.

In the experiment, participants were taught to contract their arm muscles in sync with a piece of music while awake and then replicate the same technique during a lucid dream, thus transmitting the same musical rhythm.

On another occasion, participants activated a kettle during a lucid dream by converting electrical impulses from muscles in their hands and face into commands for a smart speaker.

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I am showing that it is possible to link these two realms,” Raduga told The Guardian. “These are small steps, but in 10 or 20 years, people could accomplish stuff related to their work or personal lives before waking up.”

All these experiments could pave the way for a new era. According to Tech Explorist, REMspace is already contemplating its next goal: making real-time communication possible in lucid dreams.

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