"Where's that coming from?" My companion pauses curiosity aroused amorous attentions diverted.

"Pay no attention to the voice beneath the pillow! It's just the DreamSpeaker," I assure him seductively, missing lucidity by a heartbeat.

The DreamSpeaker is an accessory to the NovaDreamer. It is a durable plastic device that utilizes a cable which plugs into the top of your NovaDreamer mask. It is battery powered and has rounded sides for comfortable placement under or near your pillow. You simply push a button on the mechanism and begin recording a message to yourself. It allows you 10 to 15 seconds. When your NovaDreamer detects that you are in REM sleep and dreaming - along with its flashes of light in your eyes - the DreamSpeaker will begin playing your custom recorded message at the same time. Just like the NovaDreamer, whether or not you notice the cue for what it is intended to be cannot be predicted with certainty. Let me give you an example of one of my experiences with the DreamSpeaker:

I was dreaming and my DreamSpeaker began saying, "This is a dream. You are dreaming." It repeated this phrase over and over. In this particular dream, I was in a room with some other people. I looked and noticed that the sound was coming from a suitcase on the floor. I said to those who were with me, "Oh, that's just my DreamSpeaker accidentally going off." - and I proceeded to explain to them what it was and what it was for!! That Damn Dream Trickster!

Since then, I have modified my message from time to time. My current message has been the most effective so far. I tell myself, "This is a dream. Do a reality check. Do a reality check NOW!" The possibilities are obviously only limited by your own ingenuity.

Last I looked, the DreamSpeaker sells for about $150 with a discount for Lucidity Institute members. Personally, I recommend it. /Stephen Berlin

Hello All!

A suggestion along these lines: If you have a companion that might be disturbed by your voice emanating from beneath your pillow, you can go to Radio Shack and for $3.99 get an earphone that can be connected in place of the pillow speaker. It works and can't be heard by anyone else. Then you have a DreamSpeaker/DreamEarphone combo that gives you one more option. (Can't have too many of those...) -Jan

Hi, everyone. Does anyone know where I can pick up a used DreamSpeaker? Money is no--er, not much of an object. Maybe bring it to Kalani, if you're going in May.

Thanks, -Paul

Aloha, Keelan and all. Remember me, Thea? If you thought you'd never hear from me again, look at the text a few times and make sure it hasn't changed. If it's stable, do a couple more reality tests. Hehehehehe. Anyway, the dream speaker idea really intrigues me. We've had some pretty severe finance setbacks, so I can't buy anything right now, but I do enjoy reading the NovaDreamer posts. This all looks so neat. Too bad the manual on the NovaDreamer only talked about incorporation of visual cues. Can't use those, you know. I'd like to read about incorp of sound cues, too. Remember when I used the NovaDreamer at Kalani oh a couple years ago? By the way, Dr. Laberge's books are finally available in non-print form, on Talking Book.

Hi, Thea!

Always good to find you here and to know you are still actively pursuing your lucid journeys. I do recall your trying the NovaDreamer during the Dreaming and Awakening retreat, but don't recall the details of how you fared with it. Surely we programmed it for beeping cues? And didn't you have a dream of some bird or frog or some wild beach monkey chirping or croaking or chanting (do beach monkey's chant?) that we suspected mimicked the rhythm of the cue?

Waves of warm aloha to you & all our Kalani Campmates, Keelin

True, I may not need a dream speaker, but oh, the fun I could have with it. Fifteen seconds of a snippet of Star Trek quotation relevant to lucidity, like Mr. Spock, "All of this is unreal", or that representative of the ultimate dreaming race in Trek, the Talosian Magistrate saying, "She has an illusion ..." Hmm. Since Trek ideology has prompted lucidity more than once, it would be cool to try. And of course, the voices of my favorite characters coming from beneath my pillow ... bonus.

Hi all,

So where can we get the Dream Speaker? Is it still made. I am in the UK, will it have to come from America?

Also is there anything else that can be plugged into the Novadreamer? Is it possible to have something made that is similar to the Dreamspeaker, perhaps made by Maplins for instance?

Cheers Geoff.

Hi Geoff,

Unfortunately, the DreamSpeaker is no longer available through The Lucidity Institute. Perhaps you'd be able to find one on ebay? I'm not familiar with Maplins, but years ago, TLI's PEST (Programmable Electronic State Tester) was another device that could be plugged into the ND-- but that is no longer available either.

I do recall someone posting to the Forum, way back when, who had his ND hooked up with the DreamSpeaker and the PEST at the same time. All together: lights, sound, and vibrations! I'd like to have heard his dream reports. ;)

Sweet dreams to all, Keelin

There is a simple way to do this without the Dreamspeaker. Just buy some earphones with the soft rubber earpieces that fit right into your ear canal. These are very comfortable and you don't even know you're wearing them at night (Sony do some good ones).You can also buy a headphone extension lead, so you have plenty of slack and don't pull them out if you turn over in your sleep. You need a CD player next to your bed, one which you can set to begin playing at a certain time and then repeat play the CD. Then you need to burn your own CD. I use a lucid dream induction mantra, recorded on quite a low level so it doesn't wake you up. after about ten minutes my own voice cuts in slightly louder telling me that I am dreaming, maybe 5 or six times with 10 seconds gap between each voice message. Then back to the mantra (or some relaxing music, whatever you like). Repeat this throughout the CD, mantra then voice, and try to arrange it so that it loops nicely when the CD repeats. You'll need to play around with the recording levels, too loud and it will wake you up, too soft and it won't be incorporated into the dream. I usually set the CD to play at about 3am, a time when I'm normally in REM sleep. I'm sure the dreamspeaker is very good - if you can afford one. If you can't this is a great alternative method (obviously lacking the visual stimulus of the Novadreamer) and has been effective for me.

Nick, are you blind as well? I ask because of your statement "lacking the visual stimulus of the Nova Dreamer". But with this method, you couldn't hook it up to the Nova Dreamer, so that it begins when the ND detects you in REM sleep. You'd have to have it on all night, including while you are trying to fall asleep. Thea

I take your point, but you can set the CD player to begin playing when you know you are likely to be in REM sleep, early morning for instance. It's obviously not foolproof but works a good percentage of the time. And no, I'm not blind, I just can't afford a Novadreamer at the moment, so this is the next best thing - and it works.

Hi folks! Your Ideas are very interesting..But what do you think of this one? How about during the day using subliminal mesages playing in the background of some relaxing almost hypnotic music that you like? It would seem that if you use a cd player or tape or digital recorder with very good head phones and listen every day that sooner or later the message say [AM I DREAMING?] or any other message would incorperate itself firmly in your subcouncious mind..Is this like auto sugestion?

I've been experimenting with sound also. I purchased a CD alarm clock. I set the clock for 6 am, which is active REM time for me, and I put an LD induction CD in the player. Now, instead of regular earphones I purchased, for about $20 on the WEB a thing called The PillowSpeak, stereo speakers in a little flat foam pad that goes on or under your pillow. It looks like a blood pressure cuff. I plug this into the alarm clock earphone jack, adjust the PillowSpeak, and go to sleep.

The first time I used this I had LDs for a good half-hour before I even realized the thing was playing. I awoke from the dreams listening to the induction tracks, went back to sleep and had another neat WILD.

Paul

Awesome, Paul. Do you have to live alone to do this, or nap in the afternoon, when you are less likely to disturb your mate? That would be my scenario. Rob's a light sleeper. But this sounds fascinating. Thea

Paul do you think the contents of the induction tape trigered a LD? Or could It have happened because you [expected] a LD? [Power of expectation]Nowadays I dont use nova dreamer very often but every time I do I always get an increase in very vivid near lucid dreams that I recall in one night and atleast a couple of false awakenings putting me very close to lucidity..This kind of dreaming will happen with [ND] as long as Im relaxed enough and [expect] somthing to happen..And for me to put nova dreamer in its box for a month or so makes it more potent for me when I do decide to use it some night! Any way your experiance with the CD sounds promising! Keep us informed.. Tom..

Thea, I do live alone, however the Pillowspeak is so quiet I can't hear it when I lie on the adjacent pillow. Only if someone rolls right over it while it's playing is it audible, even at full volume. I set my CD alarm for 6am, when I'm almost always in REM.

The CD I use is from MindSync, LD induction. It has whole tracks that just repeat "Are you dreaming? Is this a dream?" This morning in a dream where I was cavorting on a beach by the ocean, I let the wind pick me up like a kite. At that exact moment I heard the question come through right off the CD, "Is this a dream?, and I said "You bet!" Then I flew off to a far shore where stood in a clearing on a hilltop the most beautiful old mansion I had ever seen. I flew around and around it, taking in the beautiful architecture. All this time I'm hearing the CD repeat the question over and over. This actually is a little annoying, but since I was paralysed, I had no choice but to put up with it. Anyway, It was one of the most lucid LD's I've ever experienced, since I was constantly reasserting that I was dreaming. After exploring a bit, and a sex episode in the mansion, I awoke. The CD was still playing. I could have just drifted back into a WILD, but I had to get up.

BTW, during the lucid dream sex this morning I actually paused to ask her permission. That's real progress.

Paul

Tom, I do believe the CD messages trigger lucidity, even when I'm not actually aware of the sound. Sometimes--see above post-- I actually hear the critical question being asked, and I answer and become lucid. I've had good success for years using sound to become lucid. I've never been very responsive to light. What I want to do is find a way to hook a CD player to the NovaDreamer, to play CD's during REM sleep that I burn myself. The DreamSpeaker does that, except the message is too brief to get through, just a few seconds. I've tried it. The setup I have now is close, only there's no direct connection to Rapid eye movement. I just know I dream at 6am, so I set my CD alarm for that time and keep my fingers crossed.

Paul

Since I can't respond to light, and don't know what time I'm likely to be in REM, it'd be cool to have the CD hooked into the NovaDreamer somehow. I don't use the ND, as I find it doesn't really help. I don't hear the sound, in any form during the dream, or I can't get to sleep once I have it on or some darn thing. All the LD's I've had are spontaneous or come as a result of incubation. I.E. I may go to sleep thinking, "1 I'm dreaming; 2 I'm dreaming," etc. and if I do get to sleep, I won't necessarily be lucid. However, two or three days later, I'll be lucid. Spontaneous, or the result of the "1, I'm dreaming" exercise I did three days ago? Who knows? But it works.

Hi Paul.. I just got me a new CD clock radio..Could you tell me how to get the same pillow speakers you got? the sterio kind? Web address? Thanks ..Tom..

Tom, be glad to. By the way, Nick Spry gets the credit for this. He posted doing this awhile ago, I have since discovered.

Go to-- http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jonooqf8.

Good luck, Paul

Hi to all, I have just joined, and I would like to ask:- Is anybody there, willing to sell a DreamSpeaker? Or, does anybody know where I could buy a DreamSpeaker? I tried to look for it on E-bay but is not there. Thanks

DAN