Right now I share a room with a friend at a university, and he seems kind of interested in lucid dreaming and would love to experience it, but he doesn’t really seem ready to actually put a huge effort into achieving it.
So I was thinking of doing him a huge favour - since I always wake up long before him I was thinking that maybe I could kind of try to estimate or notice when he is in the REM stage, and at exactly that point tell him that he is dreaming.
Of course, the point here is that I hope this finds its way into his dream, so that I can have a monologue with him and help him become lucid.
Maybe I could even tell him to look for a flashing light and then flash a light into his eyes while he is sleeping.
With some experimentation I believe I should find the perfect balance where he notices it but continues to sleep;
after all I have personal experience with real-life sounds, since I once dreamed that I desperately tried to turn off the alarm clock and then noticed to my amazement that it actually was ringing in real life!
So I know the sound trick can work, and the flashlight trick is obviously a simpler version of the NovaDreamer.
Everything might work just fine in theory but the thing is which you know that to actually succeeded much effort is needed and not so much from you as from the friend of yours.
The same problem you might stumble upon is the same as the one that usually dreamers have when using novadreamer or remee mask! They see lights but they don’t figure it out, they don’t become aware of them as signs but as something normal as they see dreams in general when they dream - nothing unusual.
I think this might help to someone like you, someone who knows what’s doing and someone who knows what’s to expect…
Well you can always try and hope you succeed and hope that your friends remembers the dream!
