Remember the $30 DIY lucid dreaming mask? Well, some are trying to commercialize the idea, wherein an LED-equipped mask blinks at night to remind your dreaming self that you are asleep.
The claimed effect is to trigger lucid dreaming, in which the dreamer, by virtue of this awareness, can "control" the dream-state and use it for wish-fulfillment or other amusing or interesting purposes. On the other hand, it supposedly takes a lot of self-training to successfully accomplish this, and the websites touting the masks mysterious offer all the same homebaked web-design tropes that the colonic irrigation and herbal weight-loss pill people always use. So, the skeptic bell is ringing.
That said, the masks are cheap and you only pay once, so it's can't be much worse than the glowy relaxagoggles that Sharper Image hocks. Just ignore any medical claims you might chance across.
Cerebrex, which sounds like a mispronounced arthritis pill, offers the $200 Dream Mate and gets silly with the $1,200 DreamLight. Bruce Gelerter sells his DreamMaker Basic for $250 here.
Of course, Gadget Lab readers can make their own for $30 using the instructions here
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