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Meet Richard Garrot - he has been given a headset that monitors your eye movement whilst you sleep. When you are dreaming (in Rapid Eye Movement sleep), it flickers an LED onto your eyelid to wake you up, so you can remember your dream.
He has tried this feature said he'd like to look into implementing such a device into a game.
Imagine if this headset had LCDs in it and headphones, when your in REM the game would come on first in audio, then video. It would only last a few mins, but to be in a game world when you are in that state of semi consciosness must be pretty amazing. The only downside is, well, wouldn't a game interrupting REM sleep mess up your, well, your sanity? Muddatrucker investigages REM gaming.
If the headset had LCDs built into it (like that Olympus headset) they could start playing the game visuals when you get into REM. Although of course you wouldn't be able to play the game in REM, the game could do something like have NPCs (non-player characters) telling you things, audio cues to things that are happening, what you could do when you start playing. This would mean the NPCs would mingle with your dreams, which would give you a very twisted perspective on the game.
I don't know if you've ever dreamt you were in a game. I once dreamt I was in Final Fantasy 8 and that Zell was a childhood freind of mine and it did change my perspective of him for the following few days. Things you hear/the way you move/whatever can have quite an effect on your dreams while you're sleeping and I don't want some Resident Evil game screwing my mind over with some sort of paranoid insomnia.
It would be good, but possible sanity-threatening, and only a few minutes a go? Imagine if everytime we walked out of our hideout in GTA:VC, the PS2 switched off.
However, you could conitnue playing the game, at which point you would have very quickly returned to full consciousness. But maybe you would just have to make one interaction whilst having the headset on, say make one choice which would influence the rest of the game for the rest of the day. There would maybe be a button on the headset you would press to make your choice. And that choice may, for example change the weather, which would change the mood of NPCs (or something).
I can see the machine working, as a technique mentioned in various books about this is to do something in your dream to let you know if you're dreaming. I usualy try a backflip (I can't do them in real life you see) and if I succeed then, well, you don't want to know what I get up to. Luckily every time I've ever tried a backflip it has worked so I was dreaming. I dread the day I try it and end up a***-over-**t on the floor.
Whenever I try one it's because I'm already questioning whether I'm dreaming, which never happens in real life. I've also tried other methods such as biting my hand (I don't generaly feel pain in my dreams), jumping from a high place or just simply seeing if anything is really out of place. The thing you have to remember is you need to be in a situation where you've already questioned your reality, from then on it's a simple case of proving it to yourself once and for all. I guess you just get to "know" when something's amiss. If the dream is in a pretty realistic setting and you feel totally aware then you're kind of scared you might be awake and you don't want to do anything which might spell trouble for you.
Thanks for reading,
Mudda.
He has tried this feature said he'd like to look into implementing such a device into a game.
Imagine if this headset had LCDs in it and headphones, when your in REM the game would come on first in audio, then video. It would only last a few mins, but to be in a game world when you are in that state of semi consciosness must be pretty amazing. The only downside is, well, wouldn't a game interrupting REM sleep mess up your, well, your sanity? Muddatrucker investigages REM gaming.
If the headset had LCDs built into it (like that Olympus headset) they could start playing the game visuals when you get into REM. Although of course you wouldn't be able to play the game in REM, the game could do something like have NPCs (non-player characters) telling you things, audio cues to things that are happening, what you could do when you start playing. This would mean the NPCs would mingle with your dreams, which would give you a very twisted perspective on the game.
I don't know if you've ever dreamt you were in a game. I once dreamt I was in Final Fantasy 8 and that Zell was a childhood freind of mine and it did change my perspective of him for the following few days. Things you hear/the way you move/whatever can have quite an effect on your dreams while you're sleeping and I don't want some Resident Evil game screwing my mind over with some sort of paranoid insomnia.
It would be good, but possible sanity-threatening, and only a few minutes a go? Imagine if everytime we walked out of our hideout in GTA:VC, the PS2 switched off.
However, you could conitnue playing the game, at which point you would have very quickly returned to full consciousness. But maybe you would just have to make one interaction whilst having the headset on, say make one choice which would influence the rest of the game for the rest of the day. There would maybe be a button on the headset you would press to make your choice. And that choice may, for example change the weather, which would change the mood of NPCs (or something).
I can see the machine working, as a technique mentioned in various books about this is to do something in your dream to let you know if you're dreaming. I usualy try a backflip (I can't do them in real life you see) and if I succeed then, well, you don't want to know what I get up to. Luckily every time I've ever tried a backflip it has worked so I was dreaming. I dread the day I try it and end up a***-over-**t on the floor.
Whenever I try one it's because I'm already questioning whether I'm dreaming, which never happens in real life. I've also tried other methods such as biting my hand (I don't generaly feel pain in my dreams), jumping from a high place or just simply seeing if anything is really out of place. The thing you have to remember is you need to be in a situation where you've already questioned your reality, from then on it's a simple case of proving it to yourself once and for all. I guess you just get to "know" when something's amiss. If the dream is in a pretty realistic setting and you feel totally aware then you're kind of scared you might be awake and you don't want to do anything which might spell trouble for you.
Thanks for reading,
Mudda.
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Meet Richard Garrot - he has been given a headset that monitors your eye movement whilst you sleep. When you are dreaming (in Rapid Eye Movement sleep), it flickers an LED onto your eyelid to wake you up, so you can remember your dream.
He has tried this feature said he'd like to look into implementing such a device into a game.
Imagine if this headset had LCDs in it and headphones, when your in REM the game would come on first in audio, then video. It would only last a few mins, but to be in a game world when you are in that state of semi consciosness must be pretty amazing. The only downside is, well, wouldn't a game interrupting REM sleep mess up your, well, your sanity? Muddatrucker investigages REM gaming.
If the headset had LCDs built into it (like that Olympus headset) they could start playing the game visuals when you get into REM. Although of course you wouldn't be able to play the game in REM, the game could do something like have NPCs (non-player characters) telling you things, audio cues to things that are happening, what you could do when you start playing. This would mean the NPCs would mingle with your dreams, which would give you a very twisted perspective on the game.
I don't know if you've ever dreamt you were in a game. I once dreamt I was in Final Fantasy 8 and that Zell was a childhood freind of mine and it did change my perspective of him for the following few days. Things you hear/the way you move/whatever can have quite an effect on your dreams while you're sleeping and I don't want some Resident Evil game screwing my mind over with some sort of paranoid insomnia.
It would be good, but possible sanity-threatening, and only a few minutes a go? Imagine if everytime we walked out of our hideout in GTA:VC, the PS2 switched off.
However, you could conitnue playing the game, at which point you would have very quickly returned to full consciousness. But maybe you would just have to make one interaction whilst having the headset on, say make one choice which would influence the rest of the game for the rest of the day. There would maybe be a button on the headset you would press to make your choice. And that choice may, for example change the weather, which would change the mood of NPCs (or something).
I can see the machine working, as a technique mentioned in various books about this is to do something in your dream to let you know if you're dreaming. I usualy try a backflip (I can't do them in real life you see) and if I succeed then, well, you don't want to know what I get up to. Luckily every time I've ever tried a backflip it has worked so I was dreaming. I dread the day I try it and end up a***-over-**t on the floor.
Whenever I try one it's because I'm already questioning whether I'm dreaming, which never happens in real life. I've also tried other methods such as biting my hand (I don't generaly feel pain in my dreams), jumping from a high place or just simply seeing if anything is really out of place. The thing you have to remember is you need to be in a situation where you've already questioned your reality, from then on it's a simple case of proving it to yourself once and for all. I guess you just get to "know" when something's amiss. If the dream is in a pretty realistic setting and you feel totally aware then you're kind of scared you might be awake and you don't want to do anything which might spell trouble for you.
Thanks for reading,
Mudda.
He has tried this feature said he'd like to look into implementing such a device into a game.
Imagine if this headset had LCDs in it and headphones, when your in REM the game would come on first in audio, then video. It would only last a few mins, but to be in a game world when you are in that state of semi consciosness must be pretty amazing. The only downside is, well, wouldn't a game interrupting REM sleep mess up your, well, your sanity? Muddatrucker investigages REM gaming.
If the headset had LCDs built into it (like that Olympus headset) they could start playing the game visuals when you get into REM. Although of course you wouldn't be able to play the game in REM, the game could do something like have NPCs (non-player characters) telling you things, audio cues to things that are happening, what you could do when you start playing. This would mean the NPCs would mingle with your dreams, which would give you a very twisted perspective on the game.
I don't know if you've ever dreamt you were in a game. I once dreamt I was in Final Fantasy 8 and that Zell was a childhood freind of mine and it did change my perspective of him for the following few days. Things you hear/the way you move/whatever can have quite an effect on your dreams while you're sleeping and I don't want some Resident Evil game screwing my mind over with some sort of paranoid insomnia.
It would be good, but possible sanity-threatening, and only a few minutes a go? Imagine if everytime we walked out of our hideout in GTA:VC, the PS2 switched off.
However, you could conitnue playing the game, at which point you would have very quickly returned to full consciousness. But maybe you would just have to make one interaction whilst having the headset on, say make one choice which would influence the rest of the game for the rest of the day. There would maybe be a button on the headset you would press to make your choice. And that choice may, for example change the weather, which would change the mood of NPCs (or something).
I can see the machine working, as a technique mentioned in various books about this is to do something in your dream to let you know if you're dreaming. I usualy try a backflip (I can't do them in real life you see) and if I succeed then, well, you don't want to know what I get up to. Luckily every time I've ever tried a backflip it has worked so I was dreaming. I dread the day I try it and end up a***-over-**t on the floor.
Whenever I try one it's because I'm already questioning whether I'm dreaming, which never happens in real life. I've also tried other methods such as biting my hand (I don't generaly feel pain in my dreams), jumping from a high place or just simply seeing if anything is really out of place. The thing you have to remember is you need to be in a situation where you've already questioned your reality, from then on it's a simple case of proving it to yourself once and for all. I guess you just get to "know" when something's amiss. If the dream is in a pretty realistic setting and you feel totally aware then you're kind of scared you might be awake and you don't want to do anything which might spell trouble for you.
Thanks for reading,
Mudda.