The start-up REMspace claims to have “successfully” carried out the first “chat” between two dreaming people: “Could open up new dimensions”

Researchers at a California startup claim they have achieved communication between two people while dreaming for the first time, in what they call a “historic milestone” that could “open up new dimensions.”

REMspace, a San Francisco Bay Area-based neurotech company focused on lucid dreaming and sleep improvement, said that twice now “two people have managed to induce lucid dreams and exchange a simple message.”

The company claimed participants were sleeping at home on September 24 when their specially designed “device” remotely tracked their polysomnography data over Wi-Fi, recording their brain waves, blood oxygen levels, heart rate and breathing during sleep.

After detecting that one of the candidates had entered a lucid dream state, the company’s server generated a random word and repeated it to him through earbuds.

The company did not share the word, which was supposedly known only to the participant and was repeated in their dream state, but their response was then recorded and stored on their server.

Eight minutes later, the second contestant entered a lucid dream and the server gave them the stored message, which they repeated when they woke up – it was the first “chat” ever exchanged in dreams.

“Researchers at REMspace have reached a historic milestone, demonstrating that lucid dreams could unlock new dimensions of communication and humanity’s potential,” the company said of the experiment last month.

Lucid dreaming occurs when a person is aware that they are dreaming while sleeping. According to the Cleveland Clinic, this 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 a sense of control.

Following the success of the first experiment, REMspace CEO Michael Raduga claimed that the company communicated again with two other people on October 8th.

“Yesterday it seemed like science fiction to me to communicate in dreams. “Tomorrow it will be so commonplace that we will no longer be able to imagine life without this technology,” Raduga said in a press release.

“This opens the door to countless commercial applications and changes the way we think about communication and interaction in the dream world.”

Raduga, 40, said the company believes that “REM sleep and related phenomena like lucid dreaming will be the next big industry after AI.”

Although the startup hasn’t disclosed how the technology works in its “specially developed equipment,” REMspace announced on Facebook last week that the “paper on lucid dream communication has already been written and submitted for review to a scientific journal.” . it “expects to release within the next 2 to 6 months.”

However, there is no evidence that scientists have externally verified the technology, and it has never been replicated.

Raduga told ABC 7 last week that he expects “technologies” like his company’s equipment to be “as common as your cell phone” in a few years.

“People won’t be able to imagine their lives without this because it will make their lives so much more vibrant and different,” he told the outlet.

“It will improve their quality of life so much that people will no longer be able to imagine life without such technologies. “We just need to improve them, and it’s just a matter of time.”

Raduga said REMspace, which was founded in Russia in 2007 and moved to the United States five months ago, is now looking for more candidates who have experience with lucid dreaming or who show potential for further testing.

Raduga is known for his bizarre 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 testing the life-threatening procedure on five sheep, despite having no neurosurgical qualifications.

The chip was removed just five weeks after self-implantation.