From what I read about machine-learning-powered devices like this that were in development, in the past year, it basically is reading your brainwaves and sendin

From what I read about machine-learning-powered devices like this that were in development, in the past year, it basically is reading your brainwaves and sending mild electrical interference patterns that adapt to interfere with them on an ongoing basis without waking you up, based on its training toward (1) not waking you up and (2) patterns that are known to trigger lucid dreams. As opposed to simply shining a light on your eyelid when you enter REM and training yourself to recognize that in your sleep. Supposedly it works pretty well. That said, will it fuck with your brain to have its wave patterns interfered with whenever you go to sleep? I could definitely see legions of people getting addicted and going stark raving mad just from not being able to tell if they were dreaming or awake; let alone long-term ramifications of denying the process of natural sleep. It's still a kind of mystery why every animal on this planet sleeps and dreams, and there's an inherent hubris (not exactly absent from the copy of this website) in trying to improve upon such an essential organic process.