I designed a headband with a motion detector that is sensitive enough to pick up the heartbeat and can easily detect rapid eye movements. And I wrote a program that records my sleep and plays an audio track when it detects that I am dreaming. I can sometimes hear the songs in my dreams and act on that knowledge – by flying, for example.
Each entry in the database contains a printout of the most interesting minute in the recording along with a brief description of any interesting findings. And sessions in which the audio track played include a video.
The software, Lucid Scribe, is available as freeware and anyone with a compatible biofeedback device can contribute to the database.
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Hey,
I’m looking at the screenshots and see multiple graphs on each one. Are they all related? Which colored line shows accelerometer output with the heartbeat and rapid eye movement?
Thank you!
Yes, they are all related. F1 = X, F2 = Y, F3 = Z and FM is the sum of them. fREM (orange) is when it detects the blinking pattern, which is currently configured as 8 times of 1-5 ticks above 800 followed by 30-60 ticks below 600 in a row.
I happened across your site. I share your interest but I kind of miss a bit of background information. Why would you play music when you get into the REM sleep state, is it not anoying to wake up every time you hear the music?
I share your interest because I tend to speak in my sleep quite often but usually people who were in the room cant remember what I said. Any ideas what I could do to investigate this?
regards, Johan
The idea is to wake up inside of the dream and act on that knowledge – by flying, for example. I will write a plugin for Lucid Scribe that will monitor the volume from a microphone during the course of the night so you can investigate this further. And I believe Alexander’s Lucid Dreaming App for the Android has the ability to record any sounds during the night.
If you wake up in the middle or at the start of the REM, the body will naturally fall back a sleep a minute or two later. This *in theory* allows for two most effective lucid dreaming techniques known to man to be used: WILD and DEILD. Look them up on Dreamviews.com. These techniques allow for *at will* lucid dreaming, which is the goal of this project.
I finally managed to perform this feat. The anthem woke me up at the start of REM, but I managed to remain completely still for the next 10 minutes and start dreaming again: 2012-02-08 – Dream End Induced.
So is the acronym a coincidence? None of your experiments seem to have involved drugs that I have noticed.
The acronym was consciously written. Part of the vision for the database is to have entries like the erowid experience vaults, except with recordings of the physiological effects from biofeedback devices. I don’t have much yet, but you can expect the list to grow: lsdbase.org/category/substances.
Do you have a DIY tutorial on how you made your headband? That would be amazing.
I am working on a tutorial that I will release when I am ready to start producing.
I happened to run across the site last night and I decided to use the FIELD mouse (nice pun btw).
Now, I’m just wondering where I sign up, so I can post.
Thanks! Just right-click on the log and select export to LSDBase.
Hello. I own Zeo Mobile and would like to somehow contribute to your research, if you don’t mind. BTW do you plan on doing apps for mobile devices? (IPhone, IPod Touch, Android smartphones)
I am working on apps for mobile devices as we speak. You could test the Lucid Scribe Zeo plugin for me – no one has tried it yet. You would have to hack your device with a special version of the firmware from the Zeo Raw Data Library:
http://developers.myzeo.com/raw-data-library
http://zeorawdata.sourceforge.net/starting.html#gettingstarted
For those that need helping NOT lucid dreaming, try 3-6mg of melatonin before bed. It will not just aid in falling asleep but it will help step you into sleep in a manner that helps limit the ability to realize you are sleeping. This is very useful to someone who naturally realizes they are dreaming do to inconsistency in events. Lucid dreams are not restful for the brain, basically you are awake. After enough nights of lucid dreaming you will start feeling the effects of sleep deprivation.
For those new to experimenting with lucid dreaming, after you figure out a trigger that works for you, figure out a way to block the trigger also. That way at some point you can actually allow your mind to sleep (repair).
There is nothing harmful about lucid dreaming. I agree with you that you are “basically awake” when lucid dreaming, because your brain is active and interpreting and responding to an environmental model. But even if you never become lucid, you will still be dreaming. So being lucid or not will make no difference to your brain’s ability to rest and repair.
Long term use of hormones like melatonin is harmful because you body will become used to the supplementing, and will produce less natural melatonin as a result, leading to a dependency cycle.