 Alright guys an update for you on the Instadreamer. I made a video before just sort of hyping up the Instadreamer maybe a bit too much and just for those of you who didn't see that video I'll link in the description. Basically the Instadreamer is a new device on Kickstarter which allows you to induce lucid dreams in theory by giving you a small vibration on your wrist which triggers you through Pavlovian conditioning to do reality checks after a while of learning you know and practicing these things. The idea is that these vibrations will trigger you to become lucid in your dreams. Now I made a video about this a few weeks ago and I was very excited about the idea but since then I've had a chance to think about what the product is and I've seen a few other videos and comments in particular a video from Daniel Love which by the way a very good lucid dreaming guru very good channel as well you should go and check him out. In which he basically said that it's been overhyped and that the lucid dreaming product or technology industry as a whole tends to be a bit on the hype-y side and to be honest I wanted to address this directly I think that is correct I think that there is too much hype in the lucid dreaming technology industry and that sort of niche and I just think it needs to be you need it needs to be understood so in order to lucid dream right there are things you need to practice and habits you need to build. These things can be learned for free and most of you guys do learn them for free they shouldn't cost a penny right and when you do them you also shouldn't need any supplement or lucid dreaming mask or wristband or anything else like that you shouldn't need anything like that. I think what the lucid dreaming technology industry is trying to accomplish and what the supplement industry is also trying to accomplish is to bring lucid dreaming to a wider audience to the people especially the younger generation who are after that magic bullet we are lazy fundamentally especially the younger ones I know it's hard to hear but you probably agree with me on some level we just want something instantly we want something now instant gratification this is why things like uber are doing so well because we don't want to wait around we just want to download an app press a button and have a taxi delivered to our door in the same way that we just want to download an app press a button and have a lucid dream the problem is that nothing can do that it's not possible it's not possible to press a button and have lucid dream and if it was as you know a few others in the lucid dreaming space have said that company would be worth billions because that's what everybody wants right that's the holy grail if you can find something that can do that you'll be worth instantly a lot of money and nobody would have a problem with buying it you wouldn't need to be on a Kickstarter campaign or a crowdfunding platform so that's the one side of things just to recap you don't need to have technology or a supplement to lucid dream you can learn the things to do it for free the reason I was a bit admittedly over excited in my last video about the instrument is because I found it really interesting novel how a device could be made that in not that enables you to work with your natural processes in tandem it doesn't just rely on pressing a button and lucid dreaming is all focused on training yourself to notice the vibrations on your wrist do reality checks during the day and then also do them during the night now let me just clarify this for everybody I probably wouldn't need such a device and I'm sure a lot of you wouldn't need such a device because you can train yourself to do reality checks in other ways you can use techniques like the mild the mnemonic induced lucid dream you can use other sort of less harsh I guess you could say techniques not like the way back to bed but less harsh ones you don't really need to have a reminder to do a reality check because the things in the dream are the reminder the things like your dream signs the things like you have false awakenings and you can train yourself to have natural reality checks that spontaneously make you lucid the thing I think instant dreamer is doing well is to capture that excitement of lucid dreaming and put it into a technology product that is going to appeal to a wide audience I think lots of people who may not have ever cared about lucid dreaming before are going to see this campaign and and buy one right and then hopefully if they work get into lucid dreaming through the instant dreamer even if they won't end up using it all the time even if it's just a marketing gimmick or a hype to get people into the lucid dreaming space and to want to learn about it I think that's a good thing and no I'm not saying that it's going to guarantee you lucid dreams because nothing can and it probably won't right but what it is doing is it's training people a wider audience to be aware of things like reality checks it's training you to think and to change your mindset to one of I need to remind myself to do reality checks I need to do them throughout the day and if it's going to take a wristband that vibrates on your wrist to do that and to get you into that mindset then so be it it's not super expensive although it is on the bit it is a bit on the pricey side but it's still affordable and I think if it just excites people about lucid dreaming that's a good thing it's done its job the instant dreamer and any other lucid dreaming technology can and will not induce lucid dreams directly that doesn't mean it's not useful because it is useful but it's not what you should focus on you should focus on if you've been brought into the lucid dreaming space by the instant dreamer campaign or you've seen an advert and thought that would be cool right that would be cool to induce lucid dream instantly take that excitement that you have take that curiosity about lucid dreaming that you have developed and channel it into learning techniques into practicing things that will actually give you natural lucid dreams and yes if you've already funded the campaign it's not a problem you know hopefully it will work and hopefully and I think it will be a useful tool but it should not be your focus it's not the holy grail magic bullet for lucid dreaming it can never be I think it's just going to be a tool that you can use much like a dream journal much like if you want to use supplements you can use supplements and they will give you that boost but they they should never be your focus sure if you take if you supplement vitamin b6 you will have a slight boost in memory recall in dream recall if you take other supplements which are based on acetylcholine yes you will get a slight boost in your chances of becoming lucid you won't get direct lucid dreams because no pill can do that but it's the best thing we have at the moment so that doesn't mean they don't work right because they do give you lucid support right you've heard the term lucid support not lucid induction things like lucid esc like dreamleaf are good right they have fairly good ingredients in them but they can't give you lucid induction they can give you lucid support and even you know on the sales pages it says this they can't directly induce lucid dreams they just make it more likely that you'll have one and you know if that's what it's going to take to get you interested if that's what you need some sort of support even if it's a placebo effect which is not because there are good ingredients but even if it was that's still a good thing because anything that in my opinion anything that gives you more interest in lucid dreaming makes you curious and makes you want to develop it and learn more is not a waste of time and he's actually something good so yes I think there is too much hype in the lucid tech space right now because you know it's a it's a brand new industry there are some companies that are just trying to cash in on it yeah but there are also some companies that are genuinely interested in pushing forward and advancing and actually making something good also full disclosure I have never received any payment for the instant dream of video that was not an advertisement I've never even up until after the video it never even spoken to the people behind it at all it was not part of an affiliate program I received no compensation for making that video I was just commenting on something that had just been sort of breaking news for me that I thought make a good good interesting video that's why I'm making this video to just follow it up a bit and just to understand just to let you understand how I feel about the lucid tech space because I think it's a lot of there are a lot of new things new players coming to this game and I think it's important to focus on what matters which is you can learn lucid dreaming for free you should learn lucid dreaming for free and if you want to use things to help you like if you want to use things like binaural beats like lucid dreaming tech if they if they work that is and like supplements then that's fine focus mainly on what matters which is it's a learnable skill focused on self-awareness which will improve your life that's what matters okay the lucid dreaming tech adverts and the hype marketing campaigns don't matter if there's a good products behind them then obviously listen to what the what the claims are and if you want to get one then get one but don't feel that you have to in order to lucid dream because you absolutely do not so yeah that's today's video I don't know why I didn't make the first video slightly more detailed but I was in a rush at the time and I just thought it would be it was it was a first look guys you know it was a it was a first initial thoughts on the instrument anyway focus on having lucid dreams building your self-awareness and making yourself and other people in the world a better place that's really what matters here not some marketing advert or campaign