Thread: Best device(s) to detect REM sleep ?

Hi,

i'm looking for precise and minimally invasive REM sleep monitors, does anybody know of today's state of the art ?

The goal is to wake one up during REM sleep since you have +80% chance to remember a dream with top vividness at that time according to dream research.

I'm quite surprised this isn't the first tool suggested to novice dreamers since basing dream recall on shaky motivation is unreliable as hell, at least if you unfortunately have a sane/average mind.

Green.

Originally Posted by Greenhill

I'm quite surprised this isn't the first tool suggested to novice dreamers since basing dream recall on shaky motivation is unreliable as hell, at least if you unfortunately have a sane/average mind.

Actually, such a device was one of the first tools for LD'ing.

Stephen LaBerge invented a machine called the Dream Light, back in the '90's, that detected REM movement with (I believe) infra-red sensors. It could wake wake dreamers as you describe, or send a gentler signal to cue them to notice they were dreaming during the dream. He later marketed a less able (and less expensive) but similarly functioning device called the NovaDreamer. The trouble was, LaBerge was unable to successfully sell the devices, and they've disappeared (hints of a NovaDreamer 2 have been on the horizon for about a decade now, with nothing ever materializing).

Of, course, I have no answer for your OP, but I figured I'd share this bit... I'm sure someone will post shortly with info about the latest devices available.

Rem-dreamer does that pretty well with the dream alarm mode.
I hope you sleep alone!
First time I used that mode I woke up and stand up, searching all around the bed room where the hell this beeping alarm was coming from, before I remember that it was my rem dream that was on my fore head !