A Russian researcher with a cult following claims to have implanted a chip into his brain in the bold hopes of being able to control his dreams.
Michael Raduga put his life on the line last month as he lost more than a ‘litre of blood’ while performing brain surgery on himself in his home in Kazakhstan.
The 40-year-old, who has no neurosurgery qualifications, compared his extremely dangerous experiment to the film of Inception – claiming his ‘electrode’ one day has the potential to change the course of lucid dreams.
Gruesome footage of the procedure shows him holding his skin back with paper clips while bulldozing the back of his skull using a drill he found at a hardware store.
The life-threatening study has not appeared in any peer-reviewed journals and is not backed by any universities, but Mr Raduga claimed he needed to do it for himself.
Mr Raduga, 40, implanted an electrode into his brain to ‘control his dreams’
‘I am glad I survived but I was ready to die,’ he told MailOnline in an exclusive interview.
‘For many people, it will be some sort of entertainment. Now, imagine a paralysed person who cannot experience anything in this life and now we find a way to help him to get into a lucid dream where everything is possible. Have sex, eat something, do something interesting.’
Mr Raduga is the founder of Phase Research Center which claims to provide beginner’s guidance on how to experience sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences
