DreamCatcher Bracelet

The Dreamcatcher product was a very clever idea. It was a small bracelet that would track and alert you when you are having a night terror or nightmare. It would also alert the parents, if they had a child with these issues. A really interesting part of this items is you could buy a collar for your dog. When you were having a night terror your rest would be vibrated and so would the dogs collar. If trained, the dog would bark or lick the victims face. I found that part of the presentation to be very interesting and cool. Through the presentation I learned that victims of PTSD get these nightmares or night terrors. For trauma survivors, though, nightmares are a common problem. Along with flashbacks and unwanted memories, nightmares are one of the ways in which a trauma survivor may relive the trauma for months or years after the event. Through the bracelet it could alert you when pulse and blood pressure would be raised. Not all nightmares that occur after trauma are a direct replay of the event. About half of those who have nightmares after trauma have dreams that replay the trauma. People with PTSD are more likely to have dreams that are exact replays of the event than are survivors without PTSD. Also during these dreams, people seem to have more movement and walking around. This product appealed to me because my brother would always have night terrors as a kid. He never had any form of PTSD, but would have the same effects as a victim. My parents would always try and find a way to prevent them because they were at the same time every night. If they were to have this product they could be alerted before it happened. I thought this invention was extremely clever and a topic that most people don't think of.