Thread: The New NovaDreamer2 Coming Soon!!!

I received an e-mail from the Lucidity Institute yesterday (Im a subscriber) and in it it reveals its plan to sell its new NovaDreamer soon.

Heres the e-mail message

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NovaDreamer2: The Next Generation of Lucid Dream Induction Devices

As many of our readers know, we have been working on a new version of
the NovaDreamer, our lucid dream induction device. It has been several
years since we have been able to offer devices for sale, and we are
pleased that very soon avid dreamers will again be able to make use of
the technology we have developed for promoting lucidity.

For those of you who are not yet familiar with how our lucid dream
induction devices work, here is a quick summary. Learning to become
lucid in your dreams, like learning any new behavior, requires
remembering your intention to do so. If you are learning to improve
your posture, you need periodic reminders to sit up straight! The
difficulty in applying this to lucid dreaming is, how do you get
reminders to the dreamer during the dream?

The answer is to use sensory cues. Most will have had the experience
of an "incorporation," a sensation, typically a sound (a leaf blower
or ringing phone) working its way into a dream. Through laboratory
tests, we found that visual stimuli, flashes of light, were most
likely to show up in dreams without causing awakening. The next task
was figuring out how to deliver cues at the right time (in REM sleep)
without using a sleep lab and someone watching and waiting to trigger
the cues when the sleeper entered REM sleep.

The NovaDreamer works by detecting the rapid eye movements of REM
sleep and delivering flashing light cues to the user at the right time.
The would-be lucid dreamer must be prepared to recognize the
NovaDreamer's cues (we have devised exercises to learn to do this).
The dreamer, upon seeing those lights flashing in the dream,
regardless of whatever else is going on, can then realize that
"This is a dream" and thereby become lucid.

The principle is simple. The execution took a lot of research and
hard work to find optimal methods of detecting eye-movements,
developing algorithms for distinguishing REM sleep from waking or
other sleep states, and optimizing the cues for different types of
sleepers. Over the years, as microprocessor technology has advanced,
we have been able to build more sophisticated and effective devices.

Dr. LaBerge, Jerry Durand and Keelin have been working hard over the
last few years to bring out the next generation of NovaDreamer. The
new device will work on the same basic principles as previous
versions, but will have additional features. It is designed to work in
concert with a personal computer, which makes record keeping and
individual programming more comprehensive and easier. The software
will be flexible, allowing updates and new features to be downloaded
by the user. The reliability and comfort will also be significantly
better than for the NovaDreamer.

How can you get one of the new NovaDreamers? We will begin by offering
them only to participants of the Dreaming and Awakening programs (see
above). That way we will be able to provide personal training using
the devices, and to receive immediate feedback from users. Soon
thereafter, we will set up to distribute the new devices.

If you want to be one of the first to use and own the new NovaDreamer,
join us for our program in March, 2010. We expect to offer the devices
at a significant discount to program participants, compared to the
mail-order price to come. Remember, program space is limited, to allow
personal attention to participants. Reduced rate is offered for Early
Registration by November 1, 2009.

For those who are unable to attend the Hawaii Retreat in March, please
let us know if you want to order a new NovaDreamer when it is available.
Do so by sending an email to [email protected]. We'll add you to a
first-come first-served list of preferred customers who will be offered
the opportunity to purchase one of the first production run of new ND2s
before the general public.

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