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iBand+ Headband Helps With Lucid Dreams

At last, the answer to unpleasant dreams - learn to control lucid dreaming with an iBand+ headband.

Peter Watts described a helpful lucid dream device in his 1999 novel Starfish:

Alice Nakata lies twitching on her bunk, eyes closed... Leads trail away from insertion points on her face and wrist, drape away to a lucid dreamer on the bedside shelf.

Clarke steps closer, studies the telltales on the device; induced REMs cranked to maximum and the alarm's disabled. Nakata would have been out in seconds...

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