Category: REM Sleep


Research Alignment

Filed under: Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2026-06-13
I got myself invited to share my findings on “Contactless REM Detection in Natural Sleep” at a sleep research lab. They were kind enough to loan me a clinical-grade EEG device: the CGX Patch, a single-channel forehead EEG of the kind used in real sleep studies.

I first connected the CGX Patch EEG and only turned the INSPEC on two minutes later, so I had to manually dial the INSPEC logs two minutes back. Next session I’ll turn them on at the same time.

At 00:11, in the minute below, I moved my eyes in Morse Code patterns to spell out SOS twice. The eye movements show up clearly on both signals, as sharp deflections on the frontal EEG and as variance spikes on the INSPEC.

Zoomed in:

From 04:26 to 04:46 the INSPEC recorded a long run of eye movements during a dream. Lined up against the CGX Patch EEG, the two track each other closely. The eye movement spikes the INSPEC pulled from the camera sit right where the EEG puts REM.

Zoomed in:

I have not run the EEG through a sleep stage classifier yet, so this is not scored agreement. But the raw eye movement signal from a camera on the nightstand and the raw EEG from a clinical device on the forehead, appear to be describing the same thing. From what I can see in Lucid Scribe, it looks very promising!

Download entry as INSPEC (LSD) (1.9 MB) | CGX Patch EEG (EDF) (183 MB) | Hour 0 Merged (LSD) (71 MB) | Hour 4 Merged (LSD) (71 MB).

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Lucid in the Sand

Filed under: Dream Induced Lucid Dream, Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2026-05-30
Tried the INSPEC with just the LEDs for a change. The whole dream I was flying through a mountain town holding its annual midnight market: shops open midnight to 6 AM, villagers out shopping. Landed at one point on a beach and wrote LUCID in the sand. Around 30 minutes lucid total.

BlazeFace held the face lock through every position change and the artifact filter passed only the late-cycle cluster through, rejecting every earlier candidate event that didn’t meet the temporal-pattern and head-pose-stability check.

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Lucid to Awake with Progressive Cues

Filed under: Dj Shog - This Is My Sound, Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2026-05-29

I rolled into position at 04:05, and the INSPEC detected that I started dreaming at 04:06. The first cue was triggered at 04:08, with a total of 12 cues until the final cue woke me up. The progressive cues work great to ensure you wake up in and eventually from the dream, but I’m always left wondering what could have been… the sleep quality can be seen dropping off at 04:15:52 when the audio cue became too loud.

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Hide and Sleep

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2025-12-03

The INSPEC caught rapid eye movements from the most obscure angle last night, with the majority of my face hidden behind the blanket!

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Supine to Lateral

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2025-11-09

Last night’s recording shows the INSPEC catching REM sleep in two positions; first while lying on my back, and then again a few minutes later after I rolled onto my side.

The initial dream faded quickly after the audio cue, even after I tried stabilizing it by just observing, but I was able continue dreaming with lucidity after turning to my default side position and keeping still for a few minutes.

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Stabilization

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — 4 Comments
2025-04-12

The new TensorFlow update is working better than expected with the mobile app and detection works when sleeping in many new positions. The INSPEC device can now be said to leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence in combination with machine vision algorithms.

In the minutes above, the audio cue briefly destabilized the dream, but I regained my vision by observing my emotional response instead, and the dream continued with lucidity. When I heard the second cue in the dream it remained stable while I was flying!

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Mobile Record

Filed under: Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2025-03-18
The INSPEC device now records directly to the mobile app! In the minute above I can be seen testing a new sleep quality algorithm in my sleep.

Oh, and the INSPEC just went live and has its own site @ inspec.me! Thanks for your patience – especially if you subscribed for the production release update a decade ago, when I first set out on the journey. Would love to hear your thoughts on what it has evolved into!

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Dreaming Detected

Filed under: Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep by nikkis — Leave a comment
2022-04-29
The volume was too low for the audio to be heard, but rapid eye movements were detected twice.

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Designer Dreams

Filed under: Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream, DT8 Project - Breathe, Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, REM Sleep, Wake Back To Bed by Michael Paul Coder — 1 Comment
2022-03-12

Our dog woke me up from a dream at 03:30 while barking at something in the trees. I was only able to get back to sleep 2 hours later after a shower. But totally worthwhile as I had a marathon dream session with over a dozen notifications. Most of them went unnoticed as the volume was very low, but in the minute above the effect can clearly be seen. I was able to remain still and re-enter the dream with full lucidity and control.

I was able to sleep in and catch another session a bit later when the sun was already up.

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Consistencekey

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode INSPEC, Orbital - Halcyon +On +On, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — 1 Comment
2022-03-10

The algorithm detected the eye movements from the same dream three times in a row in as many minutes at 6 AM. The same time as yesterday. The first two audio tracks did not have an effect, but I recognized the third one right away.

I was trying to dodge COD zombies as I had run out of ammo, and was aware that it was a dream or VR the whole time, but had very little control and my movements were very laggy. I attempted to re-enter after the audio track woke me up, but was too stressed from trying to escape the horde and gave up after 15 minutes.

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