Category: Dream


Calea

REM Sleep with Calea Zacatechichi
Around six rapid eye movements can be seen after the vibrations. This is one of only two 30-second REM phases recorded during the night. 

Preparation: added boiling water to a cup with a teaspoon of Calea leaves and let it soak until cool.

I have had great success with the tea inducing long, vivid and lucid dreams in the past, so I will have to try again soon.

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Z-Axis

REM Sleep Chart Z-Axis
Eight groups of rapid eye movements registered mostly on the x-axis in a dream that lasted around 12 minutes. 

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End of a Dream

End of Rapid Eye Movement
The picture was taken at the end of a 5 minute dream – 9 blinks can be seen before the dream ends abruptly. 

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TI Chronos EZ430 Dream Alarm
The track played and either woke me up, or I had a false awakening. Remembered my dreams very well (after beeing woken up during the REM period). 

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Fast Blinking

Rapid Eye Movement - Blinking in a Dream
I had a relatively long dream with clearly visible eye movements, but the rate of blinking was too fast and was not detected. 14 blinks can be seen in the minute featured above. 

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Jagged REM

Jagged REM
The dream only lasted for two minutes and the eye movements were very jagged and went by undetected. 

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Walkabout
Upon returning to civilization after 2 months in the Outback and travelling for 48 hours without sleep a total of 109 minutes of REM were recorded with the longest dream lasting 52 minutes and taking the new high score. The track played repeatedly, but the effect went unnoticed in the dreams, save for the brief interruption of blinking seen at the end of the minute above. Just before waking up a dream of 22 minutes was recorded and recalled upon awaking. 

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Faint REM

Weak Rapid Eye Movement
The REM was too faint again and snuck past the algorithm this time. Around 16 blinks can be seen in the featured minute. 

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Dream Alarm

Dream Alarm
There are two blinks that look more like flutters in the minute before this one, which I believe caused the track to play repeatedly. And me to wake up in the middle of a good dream. I removed the halograph and made a note to debug this. 

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REM Alarm

REM Alarm
The volume was too loud and the track woke me up right out of the dream. A further contributing factor may be that I have been using the anthem as the ringtone of my phone in the lab as of late. But I feel like I just got home, which confirms other researchers’ findings that a person feels the most refreshed when awoken during the REM phase. 

The 8 blinks required by the algorithm to play the anthem can all be seen in the minute above. The 3 twitches that followed the anthem (after fREM) is a feeble attempt to cling onto the dream and all the noise in the minute after this one is wakefulness.

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