Hearne's Dream machine

**William_McDuff16** · 10-17-2004 10:16 PM

I am from Canada and I would like to import Keith Hearne's dreamachine. But the problem is that I don't know where it is on sell, I didn't find anything on the internet so if someone knows something about it, please let me know, thanks!

**justme** · 10-17-2004 10:33 PM

whats a hearnes dream machine?

**William_McDuff16** · 10-17-2004 11:07 PM

Well it's a machine that helps you making lucid dreams. Here's what they say about it on www.msoworld.com:

A similar product recently went on sale in Britain. Dr Keith Hearne's Dream Machine costs in the region of £200 to £250. Dr Hearne worked for many years at the Medical Research Council, studying the role of dreams in consolidating memories, before setting up his own research organisation in 1987.

It was there that he developed his Dream Machine because "I believe in the mentalistic universe, half of which is at present shut down to us. We spend approximately two hours - 25 per cent of each night - dreaming. This adds up to six years of brilliant creation over a lifetime, which we throw away and ignore instead of using it to enhance our lives."

Since Beethoven and Mozart recomposed music they had heard in their dreams and Robert Louis Stevenson dreamed the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a complete work, Dr Hearne may have a point.

Indeed, Einstein is reputed to have remarked that creative scientists are the ones with access to their dreams, the implication being that in order to innovate the scientist, like anyone else, must break the grip on his imagination that our powers of logical-seeming story-telling impose. We must be willing to subvert the conventional wisdom on which our everyday competence depends, letting free association reign.

The Dream Machine works in a different way to the DreamLight, monitoring the pattern of your breathing rather than eye movements in order to detect dreams. When an REM period is detected an alarm, in the form of four electric impulses to the wrist, alerts the sleeper to the fact they are dreaming and without waking them up. As soon as the dream is finished and before it has faded, a second alarm wakes up the dreamer so that he or she can write it down.

After several months practice, dreamers are able to take complete control of their dreams, becoming the 'director' of a dream rather than a mere 'spectator', and they may eventually be able to achieve lucid dreams without use of the Dream Machine.