It became known about the development of a gadget for lucid dreams

A new startup, Prophetic, founded in the US earlier in 2023, is developing a device to induce lucid dreams. Project Hola could allow engineers to encode brain information while they sleep, the developers say. The device will look like a crown. The price of the devices is expected to range from $1,500 to $2,000 each, Fortune reports.

A new startup may be able to start capitalizing on the productivity that can be boosted during lucid dreaming, Fortune reports. This type of dream is a state where a person understands that he is dreaming, but is able to control or manipulate the narrative. Up to 70% of people experience this phenomenon at least once in their lives.

Prophetic is entering the technology market with an innovative headgear called the “Halo.”

The creators believe that giving clients access to lucid dreams could, for example, allow the encoding of brain data during sleep.

It has long been known that people spend about a third of their lives sleeping. Prophetic wants to eliminate this lack of activity that occurs during sleep by inducing a lucid dreaming state.

Working in collaboration with Afshin Mehin, the developer of Neuralink N1 for Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Prophetic aims to take sleep states to a new level of control.

The device will be worn like a crown. According to the company’s website, it uses a combination of ultrasound and machine learning models built using EEG and MRI data to determine when users are in REM sleep to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.

“Together we will look for answers to the most important questions about life and death,” say the creators of the project.

The company plans to start shipping devices by 2025. The gadgets are expected to cost between $1,500 and $2,000 each.

The product development is based on ongoing research at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands that targets specific brain regions and ultrasound frequencies for optimal induction of lucid dreams.

The company showed significant interest, earning “several hundred thousand dollars in device booking revenue” within the first few weeks of release. With this review, Prophetic hinted at creating a potentially significant user base that is eagerly awaiting the product’s release.

Some experts are skeptical that lucid dreams can be turned into useful tools. Many believe that the difficulty lies in determining how subjective awareness arises from brain activity.

“The thing about lucid dreaming is that you can approach dream content in a much more controlled and systematic way,” says Martin Dresler, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.

In 2020, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists at the University of Texas reported that they were able to coax 14 out of 28 nappers into supervised lucid dreaming, including three people who had never lucid dreamed before—no drugs were required. Before falling asleep, participants learned to associate a cue, such as a series of beeps, with self-awareness.

Another study of about 170 Australians suggested that checking to see if you’re awake, setting an intention to become lucid, and performing a “wake up” routine could all work together to increase your chances of lucid dreaming.

At the same time, German sleep scientists are studying its use in sports training to improve the concentration and performance of athletes.

A physician at the Los Angeles VA published an article detailing the case of a patient with a 22-year history of chronic pain who cured himself overnight with a single lucid dream.

“I am not an expert on lucid dreaming,” says Dr. Mauro Zappaterra. He added: “The patient woke up without pain. He said it was like his brain shut down and rebooted. A few days later, he goes to the pharmacy to return the medicine – 300 tablets. To me, this is pretty convincing evidence of the effectiveness of lucid dreaming.”