Quote Originally Posted by Wristblade56 View Post
this is kinda interesting, and i tried the computer dreamachine. i didn't really experience anything unusual. mcwilis what exactly are you doing? building a homemade nova dreamer?
Before I answer your question I have been doing background research on the safety of this and am comfortable with doing an extended session today. Onto your question. With a nova dreamer you put it on and go to sleep. When you dream you are in REM sleep which is an acronym for Rapid Eye Movement. Your eyes move from side to side very rapidly. The nova dreamer detects these eye movements and then flashes LED's so that you will experience an aspect of this light in your dream which will hopefully alert you to the fact that you are dreaming. A dream machine is completely different. It is to be used whilst fully awake. It is a visual method of brainwave entrainment and as Brion Gysin discovered visual brainwave entrainment can induce a lucid dream whilst being fully awake.