From: mcsdc1jcwj@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: DreamLight
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:23:45 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug20.201954.3705@leland.Stanford.EDU>, clint@matia.stanford.edu (Jennifer Dole) writes:
>>How long has the DreamLight been on the market, and does it have
> any competition?
> 
> Six months. No competition.
> 
>>Does the DreamLight interfere with sleep...?
> 
> It can if the settings one uses are not suited to one's sleeping 
> habits, (i.e., a very long, bright cue will wake a light sleeper). 
> The unit will wake most users from time to time, but these transient 
> awakenings are conducive to dream recall and the practice of lucid 
> dream induction techniques during the night, such as LaBerge's MILD. 
> It's a trade-off, though. The feeling you can have during the day(s) 
> following a lucid dream usually greatly outweighs any feeling of 
> tiredness you may have over lost sleep. And, of couse, lucid dreaming 
> per se yields no such feelings of fatigue at being "awake" the whole 
> night.
> 
>>How quickly do buyers tire of the DreamLight?
> 
> There is a whole spectrum of responses. We get feedback from those
> purchasers immensely satisfied with the product, and conversely, we
> get some returns (5 -10% out of the nearly 600 that are out there in 
> the world). I suspect, of course, there are some responses in between 
> these two extremes!
> 
>>...personal testimonials?
> 
> Granted I'm not exactly your typical impartial DreamLight purchaser, 
> but I am an occasional DreamLight user (<1/mo.), and I also answer 
> the DreamLight Help Line, a phone support service for users, so I
> hear from plenty of purchasers. The DreamLight is a *tool* to aid in 
> the induction of lucid dreams, it is not consciousness in a bottle, as 
> it were. One must work *with* the unit, and bring to the experience 
> a mind sufficiently prepared to have lucid dreams. Therefore, the 
> efficacy of the DreamLight as a lucid dream induction device varies
> from user to user.
> 
> The initial data we've compiled from purchasers of the product 
> indicate that out of 75 first time users, 40% had at least one lucid 
> dream in just the first week of use. As for long term usage, I think 
> of Lynne Levitan, a devoted lucid dream researcher, who has used the 
> DreamLight about 130 times over a three year period. Mental preparation
> aside, she had more than 3 times as many lucid dreams on nights that 
> she was wearing the DreamLight as opposed to when she was not. (These
> statistics were presented at the Assciation for the Study of Dreams in
> 1987.)
>  
> As for me, when I go to bed with a proper mental set, and use the 
> DreamLight, I'd venture to say I have at least one lucid dream upwards 
> of 80% of the time.
> 
> Hope this has been helpful,
> 
> Jennifer

Has anyone tried using an MC2 , the russian phsychedlic Walkman in the same

way ?? I'd be interested to know . 
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