Start-up REMspace claims to have ‘managed’ the first ‘chat’ between two dreaming humans: ‘It could unlock new dimensions’

Scientists from a California start-up say they have, for the first time in history, established communication between two people while sleeping, which they called a “historic milestone” that “could open up new dimensions.”

REMspace, a San Francisco-based neurotechnology company focused on lucid dreaming and sleep enhancement, shared that on two occasions “two people have successfully induced lucid dreams and exchanged a simple message.”

The company claimed that on September 24, participants were sleeping in their homes while a specially developed “device” remotely tracked their polysomnography data via Wi-Fi – recording brain waves, blood oxygen levels, heart rate and breathing while they slept.

When the company’s server detected that one of the candidates had entered a lucid dream state, it generated a random word and repeated it to him through the headphones.

The company did not share this word, which was allegedly known only to the participant and repeated in his dream state, but his response was then recorded and saved on their server.

Eight minutes later, the second candidate had a lucid dream and the server sent him a written message that they repeated when they woke up, marking the first-ever “conversation” exchanged during dreams.

“REMspace scientists have achieved a historic milestone by showing that lucid dreams can unlock new dimensions of communication and humanity’s potential,” the company said of the experiment conducted last month.

Lucid dreaming occurs when a person is aware that they are dreaming while sleeping. According to the Cleveland Clinic, this usually happens during REM sleep, when the most vivid dreams occur.

Lucid dreaming allows a person to perform actions independently in dreams, rather than randomly interacting and reacting in dreams without a sense of control.

Following the success of the first experiment, REMspace CEO Michael Raduga stated that the company re-established communication with two other people on October 8.

“Yesterday, communicating in dreams seemed like science fiction. Tomorrow it will be so common that we won’t be able to imagine life without this technology,” Raduga said in a press note.

“This opens the door to countless commercial applications, changing the way we think about communication and interaction in the dream world.”

Raduga, 40, said the company believes that “REM sleep and related phenomena such as lucid dreams will become the next big industry after artificial intelligence.”

While the startup hasn’t revealed how the technology in its “specially designed hardware” works, last week REMspace announced on Facebook that “a paper on lucid dream communication has already been written and submitted for review to a scientific journal” and that “anticipates publication within the next 2 to 6 months.”

However, there is no indication that scientists have already performed an external evaluation of this technology, and it has never been repeated.

Raduga told ABC 7 last week that he expects that in a few years, “technologies” like his company’s equipment “will be as common as a cell phone.”

“People won’t be able to imagine life without it, because it will make their lives so much livelier, so different,” he told the outlet.

“This will improve the quality of their lives so much that people will not be able to imagine life without such technologies. We just have to improve them and it’s only a matter of time.

Raduga said REMspace, which was founded in Russia in 2007 and moved to the United States five months ago, is now looking for more candidates who have experience with lucid dreams or show the potential to continue trying.

Raduga is known for his bizarre experiments with sleep.

Last year, the Russian-born CEO was hospitalized after having a microchip implanted in his skull to control his dreams.

Raduga had the chip implanted after watching hours of neurosurgery videos on YouTube and testing the life-threatening procedure on five sheep, even though she had no neurosurgery qualifications.

The chip was removed just five weeks after self-implantation.