Imagine a world where you could send a message across the great divide of consciousness—not just talking in your sleep, but actually communicating with someone in a dream.
In a turn that feels right out of a sci-fi novel, California-based neurotech startup REMspace claims they’ve done just that: created the first-ever two-way communication between lucid dreamers. It’s an extraordinary claim, still awaiting peer review, but if confirmed, it could reshape how we think about dreams, therapy, and even skill-building.
One-way communication with a lucid dreamer is certainly not new. Dr. Stanley Krippner, professor of psychology at Saybrook University in California and Dr. Montague Ullman, did a number of experiments back in the 1970’s on the subject, demonstrating that humans seem to be able to communicate telepathically.
Further, a 2021 study published in Current Biology titled “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep has discovered that individuals who are asleep and experiencing a lucid dream, which is a dream where the individual knows that they are in the midst of a dream, can “perceive questions from an experimenter and provide answers using electrophysiological signals.” These answers are provided while they are dreaming. You can read more about that here.
Two-Way Communication In A Dream
Now, REMspace, a company focused on sleep and lucid dreaming technology, says it has developed special equipment that enabled two participants to share a simple message with each other while in a lucid dream.
Their founder, Michael Raduga, is no stranger to radical measures; in 2023, he made waves by drilling into his own skull to implant a microchip aimed at influencing his dreams—a move that nearly cost him his life. Raduga’s dedication to experimenting with REM sleep has brought about both fascination and controversy, and he seems optimistic that his sacrifices are paving the way for new frontiers in dream science.
Lucid dreaming—being aware that you’re dreaming while you’re still asleep—has been studied for its benefits in areas like mental health and phobia treatment.
According to Raduga, lucid dreaming could help people master new skills, confront fears, and ease nightmares, tapping into our most private, imaginative mental landscapes for growth and healing. In REMspace’s recent experiments, two dreamers reportedly communicated in September 2024 by hearing a randomly generated word in their earbuds while dreaming. One participant then repeated the word within the dream, and the other confirmed it when they woke—a moment REMspace touts as the first true dream-to-dream exchange.
But here’s the catch: Raduga’s ambitious self-surgeries, while daring, don’t make him a neurosurgeon, and the neurotech community has yet to validate these findings. So, even as REMspace presents a promising leap, the scientific world is still waiting for peer-reviewed evidence to weigh in.
A Dream Language?
In pursuit of this dream-communication revolution, Raduga and his team have gone so far as to create a language called Remmyo. Using electromyography sensors, they claim they can detect certain sounds produced during dreams, effectively translating them into a kind of dreamer’s Morse code.
REMspace suggests this could enable real-time dialogue in the dream state, though, again, these findings have yet to be scientifically validated.
The Future of Dream Conversations
As REMspace charges forward with its sleep masks, dream-sharing platforms, and tantalizing vision of true dream communication, they imagine a future where “dream messaging” could become as common as texting.
Raduga foresees a world where full conversations could unfold within dreams, interacting even with servers outside the dreamer’s mind. It’s a vision that stirs wonder and, yes, some skepticism.
For now, though, all eyes are on REMspace, waiting for the kind of proof that could turn the dream of communicating in sleep into a reality we can all wake up to.
More Studies On Lucid Dreaming
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lucidity Institute investigated how chemicals known as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) could induce or help promote lucid dreaming. The new method used in the study, according to psychologist Denhold Aspy from the University of Adelaide in Australia, one of the researchers, helped them “to be able to properly do research on lucid dreaming,” he told New Scientist.
Lucid dreaming is a remarkable state of consciousness in which one is aware of the fact that one is dreaming while continuing to dream. Based on the strong relationship between physiological activation during rapid eye-movement sleep and lucid dreaming, our pilot research investigated whether enhancing cortical activation via acetylcholinesterease inhibition (AChEI) would increase the frequency of lucid dreams and found AChEI to be a promising method for lucid dream induction. (study)
They point out how a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine could help modulate REM sleep, and this group of chemicals (AChEls), could help by releasing a certain enzyme that in turn activates this neurotransmitter. They noted that a common drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, galantamine (an AChEI) could be used to induce lucid dreaming, and it worked.
These results show that galantamine increases the frequency of lucid dreams in a dose-related manner. Furthermore, the integrated method of taking galantamine in the last third of the night with at least 30 minutes of sleep interruption and with an appropriately focused mental set is one of the most effective methods for inducing lucid dreams available today.
Participants took higher doses of the drug each night, but when combined with cognitive therapy (a more natural way to induce lucid dreaming), things really started to speed up. But the study shows how increased dosage of the drug every night, combined with the steps, really did something. When the dosage was increased to 8 mg from 4 mg, lucid dreaming rose from 27 to 42 percent.
Want To Learn To Lucid Dream?
Lucid dreaming (becoming aware and controlling your dreams) is a skill that can be built by anyone. Taking that skill and applying it to everyday life is one way to begin living the life of our dreams. Lucid Living pioneer Dulce Ruby has taught celebrity clients this for years. Now, she has a course open to the public that teaches them how to lucid dream and live lucidly. Learn more about how you can lucid dream here.
To leave you with something more to consider, what does this discovery (and the many before it) mean about the nature of human consciousness? how might this shift our worldview about who we are and the true nature of our reality?
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