Towards a Passive BCI to Induce Lucid Dream
arXiv Preprint Archive April 29, 2019 Morgane Hamon, Emma Chabani, Philippe Giraudeau
Only about 20% of people regularly experience lucid dreams, but induction techniques can increase their frequency. External stimulation aims to integrate cues into dreams to remind the sleeper they are dreaming. This project replicated such induction with low-cost, portable equipment: an OpenBCI Cyton EEG board for sleep scoring and a mask with two LEDs controlled by a microcontroller. Two volunteers slept for two hours in a lab. One reported that blue lights from the mask were incorporated into their dream; the other awoke during stimulation. These results align with prior work. Ongoing research includes automated online sleep scoring and testing vibro-tactile stimulation.