 All right, so in this video obviously I'm reviewing the Somni looted dreaming mask now This is going to be a pretty detailed video because I'm not only unboxing it You know for the first time showing you here, but I'm actually going to do is I'm going to wait You know like a few weeks maybe even a couple of months to use it You know for several nights and actually go through it use it as a as you would use it as a brand-new person as a brand-new user and Hopefully get a real Understanding about how it works. Now. I've made of not I made a video about this before Before it was officially, you know released and funded on Kickstarter Explaining why I think this is a really good lucid dreaming mask compared to Most of the other ones so there's there's a number of reasons why it's really good in my opinion at least and why Although the marketing behind it is you know, it could be better. It's not as sexy. Let's say as the a Couple of the other ones the ins the dreamer and the other ones That don't know that put you off. Okay, there's a reason this is different. This is It's a step up from most of the other lucid dreaming tech that I've seen and That's really exciting. Okay, so don't know the marketing and the you know The clunkiness I guess of it put you off This is actually a really decent product and hopefully it lives up to the expectations that I have So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just unbox it for you show you exactly what you get I've actually got two versions of it here, which I believe is there the white and the black I also like that they've had they've put the little inception totem logo here on the box. That's really cool So yeah, I'm gonna unbox it. I'm gonna then explain why this is you know Pretty exciting compared to other other sleeping lucid dreaming tech and then I'm gonna edit in a clip Which I haven't made yet, which I'm gonna be Testing it, you know over the next few weeks month or two to see if it really works. All right So I'm gonna start by unboxing this one, which is the let me see what color this is. This is the black Version of this has two different colors as far as I know and let's just go ahead and open it up I might need a knife or something. So here we have the main, you know device and As you can see, it's actually really simple It's actually really simple There's a few things I want to explain about this which I'll get on to in a second, but as you can see it's Decent, you know, it's a nice quality This is basically like a rubber or foam sleep mask with you know little indentations here for your eyes Let me show you so you can see that If you're listening to this on the podcast version, then obviously this won't make a lot of sense to you But I'll try and explain as I go and if you you know, if you want to watch the review video Just go to go over to YouTube and you'll be able to see it there. So Some things I like about this straight away So the first one is that the actual device itself is tiny like this is the you know, the the piece of Technology that allows it to work and as you can see it's really really small So hopefully that won't interfere with your sleep much for those listening to the podcast version. It's basically the size of What can we say it's like the width of a coin and The length of let's say two coins stacked on top of each other. I think that's fair to say And roughly but roughly the size of my thumb. Okay, so if you look at that If you're watching this you can see it's pretty small That's a good thing straight away. Okay. The second thing I like about this already is that having tested a whole bunch of different sleep masks this Which I'm gonna I'm gonna just call it the nose flap because I don't know what else it's called This actually makes a huge difference to how good the sleep mask performs Without this the slightest bit of light is just going to go in through, you know underneath your nose and Render the whole mask uterus. So I'm glad they put this in For those of you who can see this. This is just a little flap of material. That means that when you wear this thing The light can't go underneath the mask and Up behind your nose if that makes sense if you've used a sleep mask before you'll know exactly what I mean by that But long social good design of sleep mask to base this device on, you know to put this device on and Then from what I can see yeah pretty standard elastic strap felt crow the device itself looks pretty comfortable So I'm just gonna put this to the side for now and then see what else we have in the box here So micro USB cable, which is how it's charged And then we have the headphones which is just standard. I'll take them out so you can have a look standard in ear headphones designed specifically for this mask a few people on the I think on some of the Reddit groups were saying why can't I just use my own headphones the reason is if you try to You know sleep with sleep music and Meditation music when you sleep your headphone wire gets in the way it tangles around everywhere So that's why they've included the headphones like this because they're exactly the perfect size or the perfect length So they won't get in the way of anything. Okay, so I'll just put those to the side and then we have the Instruction manual in several different languages. So we have American German Swedish French The budget of languages, okay, there's not much in the way of instructions. Let's be honest and This is probably one of the downsides of the somnimask is that in my opinion at least the marketing could have been done a bit better The attention to detail with certain things could have been a bit better. For example the instruction manual as far as I can see there's no This is it. Okay, and the majority of this is in different languages. The only Instruction that I can see you get is a one-page summary here And this is the English summary. I'll just hold it there so you can pause it and read it if you want to Basically just tells you how to it's like a quick start guide It says basically insert the headphones put the mask on turn it on and then so on right It's a really simple quick start guide I'm going to get into more of that and when I actually test this thing myself I'll explain some tips and how you can get more out of this and My expert opinion on how you can actually have more lucid dreams with this thing and that's basically Everything that's in the box as far as I can see. Yeah Okay, so I'm just going to put a lot of this back in just for a second and just very quickly show you the the other color Just so you can see what that's like and then I'll get into some specifics about why I think this is a good mask how you can use it and how you can get one. All right, so this is the white version And this is the two masks kind of side by side. You can see in my opinion the black one looks nicer But that's just me You don't have to The color I don't think makes a difference. All right, so we've done the unboxing. We've seen what's in the box here I'm going to give it a charge and turn it on However, the one thing I you know another thing I like about this is there's no screen There's no blinking lights apart from the ones that are supposed to blink You know on this side of the device. There's no annoying lights that I can see It's really simple. You just like literally have headphone port on and off switch usb port to charge it. That's it Looks like it's pretty much built in To this so let's give it a try. Let's put it on So my first thoughts are that as a sleep mask, it's really good You know it blocks out I would say a hundred percent of the light. There's just maybe a tiny bit down here But if I just adjust it I literally can't see anything So and that's that's quite good, you know quite an achievement for any sleep mask alone One that also does what the somni can do Um, yeah, so it's a little bit tight at the moment. Let's see if I can adjust that Yeah, it's pretty comfortable. It's pretty comfortable. Um, oh Blinded by the light now If you are listening to the podcast version of this, uh, this might not make much sense It's all really but hopefully you can come over to the youtube and now I'm going to get into the specifics about Why I'm excited about the somni how I think it can be used to lose a dream And why you're probably wondering a few questions that I think you might have Which I'm going to answer now Firstly, why would you as a lucid dreamer? Why would you go out and buy this thing? Well, firstly, how much is this thing right? It's not as expensive as the majority of sleep tech and lucid dreaming tech I should say Um, it's under 300. It's actually at the moment only I believe 200 dollars This price will probably change when they you know get more interest in orders coming through Because it's recently funded on Either indiegogo or Kickstarter So obviously it's a crowdfunded thing that just as a company starting to find their feet and develop Ways of fulfilling these orders and and getting everything sorted out. So, yeah I'm sure that the price will change in the coming weeks and months At the moment it's 200 dollars, but even if let's say they add 100 dollars to it and it becomes 300 dollars There's a really good reason why it's worth that money And I'm going to get on to that now. All right. So like most of the sleep masks and lucid dreaming masks that have been Funded in the past, right the ones we've seen so far The goal with any lucid dreaming mask so far has been to to try and detect when you're in REM sleep Okay, because the majority of dreams and certainly lucid dreams happen in REM sleep. You're more likely to Um, actually have a lucid dream if you interrupt yourself just before or during your REM sleep and then in this case you you see like a series of flashing lights, um, you hear Certain certain sounds through the headphones that makes it more likely that you'll lose a dream So the goal has always been to try and guess or predict when you're in REM sleep The problem with that is that you're guessing so so far up until this you've been guessing The mask or device has been trying to use an algorithm data Timing timers predictions in some cases literally just a timer It will just go off after five hours with no matter what stage you're in Which is probably one of the worst ways of doing it But this is different because this actually does not guess when you're in REM sleep It knows when you're in REM sleep because it tracks your eye movement Okay, so something very very different about this and this is that's why i'm so excited about this mask Out compared to all of the others. Okay As far as I know and I I haven't looked into every single mask But I've seen the vast majority of masks out there devices elusive dreamy induction devices As far as I know, this is the first one that can track your eye movements To determine when you're in REM sleep. So that makes it straight away. It sets it apart from the rest And makes this a very exciting piece of equipment. So how does it work? Well, firstly, as you can see here on one half of the sleep mask, there is actually a eye movement tracker This is a movement tracker and that sits in it's only on one of the one eye. Okay Um, you you don't feel it. I've tried this on you don't feel it because it's embedded in this foam ridge here So even if you're a side sleeper like me You're it's not gonna you're not going to know it's there. Okay, but it tracks the movement of your eyes So in REM sleep your eyes move around and that actually makes causes a bump in your eyelids to move around as well So it can track when you're in REM sleep So finally, there's no need for the algorithm to guess when you're in REM sleep because it pretty much knows when you're in REM sleep That is the vast majority of the problem so far that all of these masks all of these devices have been trying to solve how can we Firstly detect when you're in REM sleep and then secondly get a message to you during that time Whether it's like a flashing light or a sound or even a vibration An electrical stimuli, whatever it is a signal to try and remind you that you're dreaming Well, now it's not guessing at all. It knows exactly when you're in REM sleep It's pretty accurate and again. I'm going to test this myself I'm going to go through the process and test it for a few weeks, but it's pretty accurate Okay, it can detect your REM sleep and then show you these messages. So that's how it works Okay, so it detects that you're in REM sleep it shows you the flashing lights You can train it. You can customize it and you know plug it into the usb Customize different settings and then the idea is that over time you can work with this device and accurately predict when you're in REM sleep Uh get a message to yourself using the lights or the audio and become lucid theoretically Whenever you want I know I'm going to get some hate for saying that but theoretically is the keyword here you can accurately predict when you're in REM sleep using this device and then Stack the odds in your favor so that it's much more likely that you will Know you're in REM sleep get the message flashing lights and become lucid It takes a bit of training and it takes a bit of practice obviously It's much more effective when you combine it with other things which I'm going to get onto Soon in a minute and I actually have a suggestion for you, which I'll get onto at the end of this video But it's very interesting. Okay. I'm sure you can see right now This compared to other lucid dreaming masks and devices. This is a very interesting one It's different. Okay. There's a few other ways. It's different as well So what would happen with a lot of the older masks? And again, I'm not going to name job because I'm not trying to, you know Criticize these things too heavily You know, they had the right intention They wanted to make lucid dreaming more accessible one for whatever reason their products or projects didn't work Or you know, they didn't work as much as they wanted them to this one is different because The false positive signal is virtually eliminated with this mask. So what would happen with let's say your average Let's call it mask a All right, your your normal lucid dreaming mask would Hopefully detect when you're in REM sleep and it would show you this the flashing lights But the problem is it would also show you signals when you weren't in REM sleep Or when you were just turning over when you were just rolling over in bed when you were Scratching your head or you know, whatever it is when you were In a different sleep stage entirely The algorithm here knows when you're moving because it has an accelerometer as well So if you're turning over It knows to can't to disregard that even if it detects that your eyes are moving It will disregard that because you're moving. So it knows you're not in REM sleep Or is you know more likely that you're just turning over and you're disrupted So in theory it will only show you the signal when you are actually in REM sleep And not just when it thinks you are when you're actually in REM sleep That makes a huge difference and that will make it far more effective than the masks before So we spoke about comfort, you know, this is quite a comfortable mask to wear and again, I will test this thoroughly The next thing is price now the price of this at the moment is about $200 It will probably go up to 300 when it you know becomes like officially released to the public you can order it now I want to just clarify you can order this now and it will arrive in a few weeks time But the interesting thing is the price is only $200 Even if it were $300, this is vastly different to masks that have come before it and I believe this has a huge potential to change the lucid dreaming industry to change the whole Sleep and you know wellness industries because through lucid dreaming you can do so much more So many more things It really is exciting. It really is an exciting time Technology is finally being fused with lucid dreaming the branding of this thing I personally think could have done could have been done a bit better It seems like they've just kind of put some texts And the you know the symbol form inception the lucid dreaming totem But don't let that put you off Okay, there have been projects before this that have been much better branded and marketed But they didn't work as well the products Or the projects didn't work the idea behind them was not right, you know as flawed This is different. Okay. This you have a really good concept You have hopefully working technology that really does do what it says it's going to do The only kind of chink in the armor here is the marketing and the branding Which I think could be done a little bit better But that's the only thing so if you're a beginner looking at this and you're thinking like You know, I'm brand new to lucid dreaming. I just want to have my first lucid dream Should you get this mask? No, but let me clarify what I mean by that. No, you should not just get this mask If you just get this mask put it on and expect to have lucid dreams You will waste your money. You'll be severely disappointed because it doesn't work like that You really need to first learn how to lucid dream build up the skills learn the techniques Experience it and work out how you know, how you're going to do this thing And then you use things like this as like a resource or a tool You should never just rely on one thing whether it's a mask or supplement or whatever it is That being said when you understand how it works This is a game changer. Okay. This is really really powerful way to Make it so much more likely that you will actually lose a dream. It's not even it's not even funny Okay, now this video has gone on for a very long time. I might split this up into two actually So this would just be the unboxing and then later on I'll do a full review of it Um, what I would say is if you are considering buying this Firstly, there's a link in the description. You should be able to get a discount at least 50% off at the moment This might change depending on when you watch this video Secondly, you really want to make sure that you learn how to lucid dream Either first or at the same time as trying to start the device many ways you can do this You can either check the videos on my channel. I've got thousand not thousands. I've got hundreds of tutorials You can go to my website how to lucid.com Or in my opinion the kind of the fastest way is just to cut through all the noise And go through what I have created which is the lucid breakthrough course This is a high quality video course which explains Exactly how to lucid dream in simple steps. I would really like to Encourage you to do that alongside the somnimask because they really do go hand in hand And it's a way for you to just kind of jump in Skip past all the noise and the wasted, you know time and whatever And just learn exactly how to do it why most beginners fail Learn statistically the most likely way to lucid dream the statistically most likely way to improve your sleep To remember your dreams all of that is in this course. So go and check out the link in the description There is also the link to get a somnimask in the description as a huge discount Uh, and I would really love to hear what you think So leave a comment letting me know what you think about this mask if you do have any questions about this Anything at all put them in the comment section I will try and answer them in my full review video, which I'll make in a few weeks time So thanks for watching make sure to subscribe and I'll see you next time