Hi DreamViews,

I'd like to tell you a bit about my PhD/dissertation project which started a few weeks ago. It deals with developing a method to exchange arbitrary messages with a lucid dreamer from the wake world. For this, I use lucid dreaming, dream incorporations (e.g. light flashes or acoustic stimuli), body signals (e.g. eye movements), and a message coding scheme (e.g. Morse code) to transfer arbitrary messages (and not only simple pre-defined signals like LRLR).

There has been quite some research on this already, but to my knowledge not on both bi-directional (wake world->dream world->wake world) and arbitrary (not pre-defined) messages. In the end, I hope to make possible things like learning of new knowledge during sleep, controlling a machine from sleep (e.g. a quadrocopter) etc.
I worked on this in my Master's thesis already, in which I transferred simple random math problems (e.g. "4+4" or "5-2") to the dream and let the dreamer answer them using eye movements + Morse code. This worked at least once, so I now try to improve its reliability and messaging "power".

You are all warmly invited to ...
... visit my PhD project website (www.sleepcommunication.com)
... participate in my experiments from your home
... comment on this and share your own experiences+knowledge!

One more thing: I am looking for skilled lucid dreamers to conduct sleep communication in our sleep laboratory at University Osnabrück, Germany. If you are from Europe (or even Germany) and want ot participate, please contact me!