Method for Obtaining Lucidity

I just watched a program on bbc2 (UK tv) about dreaming and there was a scientist featured towards the end who specializes in lucid dreams. The method he uses to induce a state of lucidity involves telling the subject to move their eyes from left to right if they at any time while asleep felt an external light being shone on them. This eye movement in response to the light is supposed to induce lucidity.

Anyway, I had never heard of this method and was simply wondering if anyone else had heard of it or if anyone had tried it. It seems a lot simpler/easier than methods ive previously read about.

I'm a little confused and it seems like you may be talking of one of two things, at least that I can think of. Both would involve Dr. Stephen LaBerge.

The first thing I'm thinking you might be speaking of is the actual research to support the notion that lucid dreaming is real, which was to monitor the eye movements of participants while they were lucid dreaming and their bodies were being monitored. While determining that they were in sleep stages and dreaming, the dreamer would become lucid and do some prearranged eye signals from the dream, since the movement of your eyes is the same in a REM dream as your real eyes (meaning where you look in the dream, your eyes move in that direction in RL). That's not really induction, so you're probably talking about

The second thing, which is a device invented by LaBerge called the NovaDreamer. It's a mask that you put over your face, that detects movement of your eyes and signals when it sees that your eyes are moving and ideally that you're in a REM dream. It flashes lights onto your eyes, which should end up in your dream signaling you to become lucid or to do a reality check to become lucid. So, lights, eyes, and lucid dream induction.

The Nova Dreamer theoretically is an awesome device, but it has a few downfalls. Namely it's price, which was over $400 last time I checked. Also, you have to sleep with it on, and it might be uncomfortable. Also, unlike the way the news tends to present the Nova Dreamer (they do in every single clip I've seen), you don't simply wear the mask and become lucid. You still have to put in the effort to learn to reality check whenever you hear the sounds or see the flashing lights of the NovaDreamer, the same practices you'd be doing for any old DILD induction.

So yea, if that's what you're talking about it's a fairly well known device but pretty rare I think mainly because it's so expensive. If it were under $100 I'd certainly have one. But it's not, and you can get lucid without it putting in the same effort, though maybe not as many times. I'm pretty sure I'd be losing sleep from the jobs I'd need to pay for one, though.