Researchers for a California start-up claim to have achieved the first communication between two people while dreaming, in what they called a “historic milestone” that “could open up new dimensions”.
REMspace, a neurotech company based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on lucid dreaming and sleep enhancement, shared that they have now twice had “two individuals successfully induce lucid dreaming and exchange a message of simple”.
The company claimed participants were sleeping in their homes on September 24 when their specially developed “device” remotely tracked their polysomnography data over WiFi – recording their brain waves, blood oxygen levels, heart rate heart and breathing during sleep.
After the company’s server detected that one of the candidates had entered a lucid dream state, it generated a random word and repeated it to him through the headphones.
The company has not shared the word, which was allegedly known only to the participant and repeated in his dream state, but his response was then recorded and stored on their server.
Eight minutes later, the second candidate entered a lucid dream, and the server relayed the saved message to them, which they repeated after waking up—marking the first “dream chat” exchanged.
“Researchers at REMspace have reached a milestone, demonstrating that lucid dreaming can unlock new dimensions of communication and humanity’s potential,” the company said of last month’s experiment.
Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware that they are dreaming while sleeping. According to the Cleveland Clinic, it usually happens during REM sleep, when the most vivid dreams occur.
Lucid dreaming allows a person to perform self-directed actions in their dreams rather than randomly interacting and reacting in their dreams without any sense of control.
After the success of the first experiment, REMspace CEO Michael Raduga claimed that the company regained communication with two more individuals on October 8.
“Yesterday, communication in dreams seemed like science fiction. Tomorrow, it will be so common that we will not be able to imagine our life without this technology,” Raduga said in a press release.
“This opens the door to countless commercial applications, reshaping the way we think about communication and interaction in the dream world.”
Raduga, 40, said the company believes that “REM sleep and related phenomena, such as lucid dreaming, will become the next big industry after AI.”
Although the start-up has not disclosed how the technology works in its “specially designed devices”, REMspace announced on Facebook last week that “the book on lucid dream communication has already been written and submitted for review to a scientific journal” and that he “anticipates its publication within the next 2 to 6 months.”
However, there is no indication that scientists have reviewed the technology externally, and it has never been replicated.
Raduga told ABC 7 last week that he expects “technologies” like his company’s devices to “be as common as your cell phone” in a few years.
“People won’t be able to imagine their lives without it because it will make their lives so much more vibrant, so different,” he told the paper.
“It will improve the quality of their lives so much that people will not imagine their lives without such technologies. We just have to improve them and it’s only a matter of time.”
Raduga said REMspace, which was founded in Russia in 2007 and moved to the US five months ago, is now looking for more candidates who have lucid dreaming experience or show potential for further trials.
Raduga is known for his strange sleep experiments.
Last year, the Russian-born CEO was hospitalized after having a microchip drilled into his skull to control his dreams.
Raduga inserted the chip after watching hours of neurosurgery videos on YouTube and tested the life-threatening procedure on five sheep, despite having no neurosurgery qualifications.
The chip was removed just five weeks after it was self-implanted.
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