I have something I'd love to share with you which I think you will find fascinating. You may have discovered some of this already, but if you read through to the end I have some insider information that you haven't seen yet!

A few months ago I purchased a Neurosky Thinkgear EEG with the intention of studying brain computer interfaces. Before delving into the OpenEEG software development kit I decided to see if there were any apps that might be useful.

Much to my satisfaction I discovered an app entitled "Lucid Scribe" in their store, yet the site was not selling it. Although when I visited it's creators site (www.lucidcode.com) I was happy to find that it was free and open source!

After downloading the main program ("Lucid Scribe") and the Thinkgear EEG plugin I fiddled with it for awhile, learning some of the functions to see what it could do. First of all it has the ability to detect the onset of REM sleep through bursts of muscle movements recorded by the EEG. It is set up to play an audio track once REM begins, which can either be used as an alarm for WBTB, or as an in-dream trigger to become lucid. Another option called "TCMP" translates certain eye movements as Morse code(gentle movements are dots and stronger ones are dashes). With this the user can record messages to their awake self and even make a dream journal without waking up!

If you think this is far-fetched, consider that one of Stephen LaBerge's early experiments involved instructing a lucid dreamer to preform agreed upon eye movements when they became lucid, and while observed during REM in a laboratory they did exactly that! Thus eye movements in a lucid dream correlate to physical eye movements

Reference: (Psychophysiology of Lucid Dreaming) Paragraph 5


NOW HERE'S THE TWIST!

I wondered, why not have the Morse code trigger an audio playback of the dot's and dashes, and then with a simple headphone splitter two dreamers could send messages between dreams.



I messaged my idea to the programs creator, and by the next day got an amazing response. He wanted to add the messaging feature, and even better it could have a text-speech ability so the listener would not have to decode Morse code. But most awesome of all he plans to implement a sort of text messaging ability so users can connect to each other through the internet (I'm imagining wiggling my eyes to type out a sort of phone number while asleep).

Let me know what you think of these developments, would you want to test a "Lucid Messaging Service"?


NOTE: I've opted to post this in the "Dream Control" forum instead of the "Beyond Dreaming" forum for the following reasons;
-It requires a great deal of dream control to use the technology

-It is not controversial or supernatural, and even if it is considered to be, one can preform the experiment under laboratory conditions (if it works there is definitive proof).