Researchers from Prophetic are confident in the success of their development and intend to change the world with its help.
Do you remember the July news about the Russian craftsman Mikhail Raduga, who drilled his head for lucid dream management? American researchers decided to achieve a similar effect, although with much safer methods.
Technology startup Prophetic has announced the development of a non-invasive neural device called Halo, designed to trigger lucid dreams. The unique headband, which uses ultrasound and machine learning technologies, promises users the ability to consciously control their dreams and relive any desired moments in them.
Appearance of the Halo device
Lucid dreams, experienced by about half of adults at least once in their lifetime, can have a significant impact on personal development. The company's founders, Eric Wollberg and Wesley Louis Berry III, consider such dreams to be "surreal and spiritual" experiences that can help reduce anxiety, improve mood, and develop creative and motor skills.
In collaboration with the Netherlands Donders Institute, Prophetic aims to create the largest database of lucid dream observations using EEG and functional MRI. The possibilities of focused ultrasound technology through the skull, which allows manipulating neural activity with high accuracy, are also being investigated.
Nico Adelhoefer, a researcher at the Donders Institute's Sleep and Memory Lab, expressed his excitement about developing devices for home use that can modulate the emotional tone of sleep and possibly even the specific content of dreams.
However, despite the optimism of the developers and the encouraging results of previous studies, it remains unclear whether the technology will be able to cause or stabilize lucid dreams at all. However, the Prophetic team aims to use the collected data to train machine learning models that will stimulate targeted neural activity of users using ultrasonic emitters.
The project evokes associations with such cult films as "Inception" and "The Matrix", but the Prophetic team believes that its project is not just science fiction, but something completely real and achievable.
If the Halo device is successfully launched in 2025, the technology can open up new perspectives for understanding dreams and consciousness, as well as enrich people's lives by providing them with a truly "enchanted" lucid dream experience.
Do you remember the July news about the Russian craftsman Mikhail Raduga, who drilled his head for lucid dream management? American researchers decided to achieve a similar effect, although with much safer methods.
Technology startup Prophetic has announced the development of a non-invasive neural device called Halo, designed to trigger lucid dreams. The unique headband, which uses ultrasound and machine learning technologies, promises users the ability to consciously control their dreams and relive any desired moments in them.
Appearance of the Halo device
Lucid dreams, experienced by about half of adults at least once in their lifetime, can have a significant impact on personal development. The company's founders, Eric Wollberg and Wesley Louis Berry III, consider such dreams to be "surreal and spiritual" experiences that can help reduce anxiety, improve mood, and develop creative and motor skills.
In collaboration with the Netherlands Donders Institute, Prophetic aims to create the largest database of lucid dream observations using EEG and functional MRI. The possibilities of focused ultrasound technology through the skull, which allows manipulating neural activity with high accuracy, are also being investigated.
Nico Adelhoefer, a researcher at the Donders Institute's Sleep and Memory Lab, expressed his excitement about developing devices for home use that can modulate the emotional tone of sleep and possibly even the specific content of dreams.
However, despite the optimism of the developers and the encouraging results of previous studies, it remains unclear whether the technology will be able to cause or stabilize lucid dreams at all. However, the Prophetic team aims to use the collected data to train machine learning models that will stimulate targeted neural activity of users using ultrasonic emitters.
The project evokes associations with such cult films as "Inception" and "The Matrix", but the Prophetic team believes that its project is not just science fiction, but something completely real and achievable.
If the Halo device is successfully launched in 2025, the technology can open up new perspectives for understanding dreams and consciousness, as well as enrich people's lives by providing them with a truly "enchanted" lucid dream experience.
