i want to talk about a new lucid dreaming mask called the somni
now in the past there have been many different lucid dreaming masks and not all of them have been
that impressive to be honest a lot of them haven't really worked and there's especially
on kickstarter a bad history with lucid dreaming masks that seem to just fund really quickly
and then not really deliver you know they take a long time to make and even when they do eventually
finally get around to delivering them and sending them to you guys they don't really work and this
has been the case throughout history for the last few years certainly but the somni mask i'm quite
excited about and this is a very different type of lucid dreaming mask because of the way it works
so i'm going to get into how this works right now so the zomling mask looks a bit like this and as
you can see it's kind of a comfortable sleep mask style thing and then it has this kind of addition
on one of the eyes and the idea is that it tracks your rem eye movements your rapid eye movements
during your rem sleep now the way it works is that it detects your rem sleep and then sends you kind
of visual visual and audio clues or cues and the way it does this is by detecting a rem sleep with
this kind of black box here realizing that you're dreaming and then sending you audio cues through
the headphones and then visual cues through the mask now what makes this different to every other
lucid dreaming mask so far at least or at least with a couple of exceptions is the fact that it
can detect your rem sleep accurately not many other masks have been able to do this and by
by actually detecting a rem sleep accurately it's able to then send signals at the right time
which in theory and i'll get into how it works in a minute could make you lucid pretty likely like
it's quite likely that this will work all right so here's the technical specifications but before
we actually before we get into that i just want to give you a kind of disclosure here okay so firstly
you there are no guarantees with lucid dreaming technology okay and especially with the track
record that there is with this thing uh with this with this kind of industry there's no guarantees
that this will work and there's no guarantees it's going to be reliable okay so we don't at
this point we don't really know if it's going to work or not all we can do is speculate and say
i think this will work i think this won't work and here's why so now with that being said let's
get into the technical specifications here so it the whole the main product essentially is this
kind of box that goes onto one of the eyes of the mask like this and the idea is that this is able
to detect the eye movement and work out basically when you're in rem sleep and because it's able to
do that it's able to send you signals in the form of led flashing lights and sound at the
perfect time which will enable you to actually be able to lucid dream so in that sense it's pretty
exciting i mean this is a kind of revolutionary device as far as i'm aware i mean there might
be one maybe one or two really old devices that could do this with the rem eye movement tracking
but i certainly can't think of any uh if you can think of any let me know in the comments which one
can do this or has done this so the battery life seems to be charged via micro usb with a kind of
like a mini battery that goes in here they claim it's really comfortable and from the looks of the
pictures it looks fairly comfortable you know just like a typical sleep mask or eye mask that
you would wear the only difference is that one of the eyes obviously has this attachment here and
they've obviously included the headphones which link up to this and then it detects when you're
in rem sleep and then plays you some signals the device itself looks pretty simple i mean you have
an on and off button a micro usb a headphone jack and then the actual eye movement sensor there and
then this kind of this box device fits nicely into this little pocket here to protect it and
make sure there's no sharp edges or anything now what i like about this mask is that the design
they've put the kind of the most bulky part on the front which is perfect because not many people
sleep face down so you're actually in theory gonna have a comfortable night's sleep because there's
no apart from the headphones there's nothing really in the side of your head that is gonna
cause discomfort when you're sleeping so that's a really good you know kind of design of this mask
so the visuals look pretty good the theory and the kind of principle behind it is kind of sound
i mean to track rem eye movement sleep and then play signals during rem sleep to kind
of trigger and uh give you clues that you might be dreaming that's a pretty good idea now i want
to now go into the main drawback of this device and what what could be a problem for the device
and this is not just a problem with this one but any device or any lucid dreaming mask that aims to
play visual or audio cues in the hopes of making you lucid has this one major drawback and that is
what if you don't notice the cues what if you don't actually realize that you're being shown
flashing lights or that you whatever you know and it really just and it really just comes down to
practicing and training yourself to recognize the cues some people on reddit have kind of summarized
this especially this user here bad brownie they said the lucid dreaming mask is kind of like a
slimming pill if all you do is wear the mask you won't get any results you need to do the exercises
and this kind of summarizes what i'm about to say really well unless you practice lucid dreaming
techniques and train your mind and you know your subconscious to look for and recognize the cues
then it probably won't work so you need to really be aware of that and just bear in
mind that it's not gonna you're not gonna put this thing on and instantly have lucid
dreams you need to kind of practice that being said the technique and the principle behind it
does make a lot of sense as you can see from this article in psychology today external stimulation
applied during rem sleep has been shown or used to trigger lucid dreaming during rem sleep an
external cue could be presented to the dreamer and this could trigger a lucid dream the most popular
form of external simulation is a sleep mask that produces light stimuli so it's certainly an
interesting idea now there is actually a video which i will link to in the description and i'll
also link to a place by the way where you can get 51 discount on this omni mask if you want
to pre-order it and just check it out that link will be in the description or you can just go
to howtolucid.com forward slash somni uh again links will be in the description but you can
kind of see a lot more about it on the page that i will link to because there's a lot to bear in mind
here okay they're kind of explaining the basis of lucid dreaming why you would want to learn it
we kind of get that stuff right what we really want to know is does this thing this device here
actually track your rem sleep and induce lucid dreams if this if if the answer to that question
is yes if this device can accurately track rem sleep then this will work okay the only thing
the only drawback like i've said is whether you will actually recognize the cues the the audio
and the visual stimuli and whether you will train yourself or put in the effort to train yourself
to recognize those cues if you don't nothing will happen if you do this could be and i don't want
to speak too soon but this could be one of the best lucid dreaming mask or the most hopeful
and promising lucid dreaming masks so far so if you are interested in learning more you can go
to the link in the description and like i said you will get a discount at the moment i think for the
next 20 days or so you can get that discount and i hope you've enjoyed this video i would love to
hear what you think about lucid dreaming marks or about this one in particular because this one is
in my opinion quite different to previous masks but we'll i guess we'll have to wait and see and
as soon as this is released i will be reviewing it physically i will be testing it out for a month
and then making another video just going into detail about my experiences with it but for now
i'm pretty hopeful about this i have a good feeling about this one