Cloud X: The Dream Movie
The next generation of dream recording technology is under way. Cloud X is a non-profit, crowdfunded project set to take place in Los Angeles, California.
Considering that such technology is becoming a reality is quite mind-blowing and, of course, has various aspects to it. Below is some information on the new project. The team exists of quite a number of experts in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging.
“The CLOUD X project is an attempt to record a complete dream—imagery, dreamed speech and dreamed motor behavior…
The technologies involved in the project will be a combination of electroencephalography (EEG), electrooculography (EOG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electromyography (EMG). EEG and EOG will help determine when the sleeper is in rapid eye movement sleep (ripe for dreaming), fMRI or fNIRS will capture dreamed imagery, and EMG will collect covert muscle activity used in dreamed speech and dreamed body movement reconstruction…
…recording and reconstructing dreamed visual imagery and dreamed speech are more complex. In both cases, pattern matching of awake recordings and dream recordings determine the resultant reconstruction and dream movie…
…For visual imagery, software needs to be trained on awake brain patterns gathered from individual and image databases…
…For this project, we plan to utilize experienced lucid dreamers as subjects and train these subjects in a set of specific dream scenarios, i.e. visualization, body movements and speaking both when awake and when dreaming…If successful with this approach, the software training cycles for imagery and phoneme decoding can be reduced and the imagery recorded more personal and specific.
…As part of Cloud X, we also plan on producing a short documentary about the project, a “making of” film, in this case on the creation of the first movie from a dream…
…Our project lead, Daniel Oldis, is an independent dream researcher and author of The Lucid Dream Manifesto. His work has been featured by Forbes, CNN, Psychology Today, the Huffington Post, Fox Networks, Coast-To-Coast AM, CBS Radio, Australian Broadcasting, the Orange County Register, Dreamtime magazine and other media…” – Go Fund Me – Cloud X – The Dream Movie