Australia developed virtual reality equipment to lull sleep

According to engadget.com, artists and researchers from Royal Melbourne University of Technology (RMIT), Australia, have developed a virtual reality tool for users to fall asleep faster.

With Inter-Dream, users reduce negative emotions, increase positive emotions and sleep peacefully - (Photo: RMIT University).

The device called Inter-Dream combines environmental sound with kaleidoscope images that change depending on brainwave waves. Inter-Dream attaches colors and properties to different brain waves and because brain waves are constantly changing, both images and colors change. As a result, users see a constantly moving illusion of colors, shapes and patterns. At the same time, active brain waves are linked to more vivid images.

The idea of ​​inventors is that people with more active minds just before going to bed are more likely to fall asleep. Providing bright visual images, Inter-Dream helps them learn to soothe the mind and bring users to sleep by.

Inter-Dream was originally conceived as a PluginHUMAN public art project - the result of a collaboration between Dr. Betty Sargent and Justin Dwyer. But this attracted the attention of Nathan Semertsidis, a researcher from RMIT University's Games Laboratory.

Semertsidis began to study Inter-Dream's ability to improve sleep quality. He conducted research and found that his test participants reported that they had 21% reduction in negative emotions and a 55% reduction in fear after using Inter-Dream. Their positive emotions increased by 8% and their sense of serenity increased by 13%. Theoretically, those changes will lead to improved sleep.