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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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Category: INSPEC
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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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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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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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The volume was too low for the audio to be heard, but rapid eye movements were detected twice.
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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.
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I was able to sleep in and catch another session a bit later when the sun was already up.
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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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Inspired by the optic and software zoom on Sebastiii’s security camera, I doubled the resolution on the inspec camera and saw immediate improvement when monitoring via Lucid Scribe. It might need some further optimizations for the standalone version that runs on the firmware to keep up, but if it drops a few frames here and there it should still catch enough eye movements.
The algorithm detected rapid eye movements three times in a row at around 6 am, with no false positives during the night.
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Lucid Scribe can now tap into the video feed from the INSPEC camera if it is plugged in via USB, which will allow for parallel tests against the algorithm on the device’s firmware. Recorded 3 positives and 0 false positives with audio on mute for testing.
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The INSPEC can now look for faces and only looks for eye movements within the area of a face, nuking a whole host of false positives from sleep artifacts like breathing. Sleep talking still gets past it – too shy to post a clip of that, but I figure if you are sleep talking there is a good chance you are dreaming and the inhibition of motor neurons from REM atonia just isn’t working around the mouth muscles.
The video above shows some eye movements at 4 am with the algorithm looking for a face multiple times a second. In order for the facial algorithm to work, I have to bend the “neck” of the device so it can see my face in portrait mode. The flexible tripod works perfectly for that.
I sometimes feel guilty about how hard the INSPEC has to work all night, but I am making it in hope of spreading lucidity, so at least it is for a worthy cause.
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