“As the hand and head sensors detect that the person’s muscles are relaxing and brain waves are changing as they fall asleep, it triggers a nearby Jibo robot to say a preprogrammed phrase…
…Horowitz said the third generation will work just by monitoring eyelid movement in sleeping subjects.“ – Motherboard – https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia
“We initiate automatic audio recording alongside interruption, allowing users to speak their dreams in semi-lucid states, not waking themselves up entirely to issue reports…
…The technology that drives Dormio is open source. That means the software for our biosignal tracking is on Github. ..And Tomás, who led that build, wrote about it step by step here. You can, for now, build yourself one. – Media – https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview/#faq-is-this-dreaming-what-is-stage-1-sleep
“HYPNAGOGIA, also referred to as “hypnagogic hallucinations”, is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep… Mental phenomena that may occur during this “threshold consciousness” phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations and, sleep paralysis.” – Wikipedia