everyone sleeps
everyone is interested in their dreams
further
what ignorant of their dreams their
passive experiences and they leave them
at that are happy to leave them at that
but there's more to it so a lucid dream
is the awareness of a dream within the
dream what we're doing is creating a
wearable device to help people have
lucid dreams and we're trying to help
people become more conscious and aware
of their dreams I have this experience a
lot in my dreams around falling and I
remember having that experience one time
just falling falling falling realizing I
was dreaming and being able to change
the outcome from me falling to me flying
instead I very much like the idea of
using life and and dreams in a gamified
setting looking at my obstacles as games
that I need to defeat one of the most
important things that happen over the
last few decades is the advancement of
the biosensor industry biosensors are
measurement tools to help people measure
brainwave activity and the reason why
this is important is because for
tracking sleep stages the EEG signal
which can be measured from the scalp is
the best method for doing so given the
state of Technology today the most
accurate way to track sleep is with
wearable technology Aurora is a headband
that you wear to sleep that tracks your
sleep stages and it does so using
accelerometer data and EEG data
collected from the forehead EEG
otherwise known as
electroencephalography
is the brain wave signal as measured at
different points on the scalp as it
tracks your sleep stages it knows the
stage of sleep that you're in be it
light sleep deep sleep REM or the awake
stage the Aurora helped people have
lucid dreams by knowing when they're in
REM which is when dreams most likely
occur and flash lights and sounds
present audio-visual stimulus to the
dreaming subject what's great about a
EEG is that it gives you a really
precise temporal image of the signals in
your brain but it's very hard to pick
out exactly where those signals come
from in the brain
EEG is like flying a helicopter down New
York City and hanging a microphone
beneath it you're not going to be able
to pick out singular voices but you'll
hear trends sleep tracking technology
can be used to make people sleep better
when I wake up from a lucid dream I feel
incredible
I feel validated part of our vision is
to work closely with the people who are
making these discoveries to make sure
that the wearable devices can uphold
these new discoveries there are
pragmatic benefits to lucid dreaming
people who lucid dreams of happier more
healthy lifestyles and people who don't
even more on the practical side research
has also shown that practicing some
skill in a dream will increase your
effectiveness in that skill in waking
life so if you're a soccer player and
you have a championship match coming up
and you spend the weeks before
visualizing you winning the championship
that research suggests it will help
unfortunately many people forget their
dreams immediately upon waking up there
is a lot to learn about the way that you
portray the external world in your dream
it says a lot about how you feel about
people in your life situations that you
might be in in the waking world and I
think there's a lot to learn from that
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