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Prophetic Offers Lucid Dreaming Halo With Morpheus-1 AI
Explore your dreams lucidly with the "Halo", a product from Prophetic. The company claims that with the use of their artificial intelligence platform "Morpheus-1", the Halo will induce a state of lucid dreaming.
(Prophetic 'Halo' offers lucid dreaming state)
Morpheus-1 will use "transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation," — a non-invasive way to modulate brain activity using high-frequency sound waves beyond the normal human hearing range.The headband monitors the wearer's EEG activity and then uses the generative AI Morpheus-1 platform, which will be trained using a large data set of EEG scans from people who were lucid dreaming.
By learning what the characteristic EEG signature of lucid dreaming looks like, the device can stimulate key brain regions to recreate that pattern, thereby inducing lucid dreaming, Prophetic representative said. But one expert told Live Science it's hard to say whether Morpheus-1 can achieve what company representatives have claimed it can.
"The study that they've got on their technology roadmap demonstrates different patterns of activation in the prefrontal cortex associated with lucid dreaming and they're trying to modulate those circuits," Guy Leschziner, a professor of neurology and sleep medicine at Guy's Hospital...
(Via LiveScience.)
Science fiction writer Peter Watts describes a similar device in his exceptional 1999 novel Starfish:
Alice Nakata lies twitching on her bunk, eyes closed... Leads trail away from insertion points on her face and wrist, drape away to a lucid dreamer on the bedside shelf.Clarke steps closer, studies the telltales on the device; induced REMs cranked to maximum and the alarm's disabled.
(Read more about lucid dreamer device)
Also, Roger Zelazny elaborately described a dream console in his 1966 novel The Dream Master, which was used by a neuroparticipant therapist - a Shaper of dreams.
(A Dream Console)
I should also mention the DC Mini from Paprika by Satoshi Kon.
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