I'm surprised Dormio (the hardware that is facilitating this dream seeding) is trying to interact with the early stages of sleep, which is more likely to be NRE

I'm surprised Dormio (the hardware that is facilitating this dream seeding) is trying to interact with the early stages of sleep, which is more likely to be NREM. We get more REM sleep later in the night, which is the more opportune period to interact with dreams. There are challenges to detecting the difference between REM and wakefulness, but as long as the interaction is not invasive, I would assume you could simply flex your finger to assert that you are not in REM sleep.