Portable Devices to Induce Lucid Dreams—Are They Reliable?
Frontiers in Neuroscience May 8, 2019 Sérgio Mota‐rolim, Achilleas Pavlou, George Nascimento et al. 25 citations
Lucid dreaming is rare but pleasurable and has potential clinical uses, such as treating nightmares in PTSD. Researchers have been developing portable devices to induce lucid dreams. These devices detect REM sleep via EEG and then deliver visual, auditory, or tactile cues to alert the dreamer without waking them, or use transcranial alternating current stimulation of the frontal cortex. This review covers 10 such devices: DreamLight, NovaDreamer, Aurora, Remee, REM-Dreamer, ZMax, Neuroon, iBand, LucidCatcher, and Aladdin.