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What is not known, yet, is whether TUS can induce or stabilize lucid dreams, though the Prophetic team is banking on a positive answer to this open question. Its wearable headband prototype, the Halo, was developed with the company Card79 and can currently read EEG data of users. Over the next year, Prophetic aims to use the dataset from their partnership with the Donders Institute to train machine learning models that will stimulate targeted neural activity in users with ultrasound transducers as a means of inducing lucid dreams.“Ideally, the user would not notice the device at all, but would see effects only in slight changes in dream experiences that appear natural and non-artificial,” explained Adelhöfer, who is himself a longtime lucid dreamer. “The direction of change in dreaming depends on the exact parameter settings. An insight moment might be triggered, leading to a questioning of the current (dream) reality by the dreamer, and consequently to a lucid dream, which, when combined with full perceptual immersion, is easily one of the most curious and exhilarating experiences for humans to have.”
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