Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Xiao Zoe Fang, Gabriel Ducos, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Antony Smith Loose, Rohit Rajesh, Nethmini Botheju, Eric Yang Chen, Maria Fernanda Montoya, Alexandra Kitson, Karen Konkoly, Rohan Sagi, Nathan W. Whitmore, Rakesh Patibanda, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Jialin Deng, Jiajun Bu, Martin Dresler, Don Samitha Elvitigala, Nathan Semertzidis, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller
Time: Mar. 2023 - Jul. 2025
Category: Research
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where one is aware of dreaming whilst asleep,
which enables people to control their dream content.
Lucid dreaming offers various mental and physical health benefits, such as entertainment, inspiration, and alleviating nightmares.
However, lucid dreaming rarely occurs naturally, and lucid dream induction techniques take effort and time to practice.
We designed LuciEntry, a close-loop lucid dream induction system.
Our mobile app guides users through the preparation before sleep, priming them to a lucid state.
During sleep, the system monitors brain and eye activity with the headset.
When a dream state is detected, LuciEntry automatically delivers external stimuli to increase the user’s self-awareness and induce lucid dreaming.
To help people induce lucid dreaming at home, we are developing a portable lucid dream induction system.
Acknowledgments
We thank Mr. Aleksandar Joseski for the video. Florian ’Floyd’
Mueller acknowledges the support from the Australian Research
Council, especially DP190102068, DP200102612 and LP210200656.
We thank Ria Gulshan and Matthew Doyle for proofreading the
paper. We also thank the Exertion Games Lab for the feedback and
conceptual support they contributed toward the project and the
paper.