Category: Lucid Dream


REM Lucid Dream
I became lucid naturally, the old-fashioned way. So when the track played the euphoria and confidence doubled. But I flew too high too fast and the dream started fading very quickly. 

Three blinks can be seen before the anthem, then some strained eye movements followed by another four blinks.

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REM Sleep Interrupted
The track woke me up and ended the dream that it detected rather abruptly as can be seen after the eight blinks above. I did, however, manage to remain completely still and awake for the next 10 minutes until the hallucinations started again. 

Although I was focusing on the end of the dream and thinking through all the things that I would have done differently with more awareness, I simply started seeing the room I was in through closed eyes. There were things that I knew could not be there and I was able to get up ever so slowly and set out on an epic adventure.

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Good Timing

Rapid Eye Movement Graph
There were three brief occurances of REM onset that all ended abruptly. The track played a minute into the fourth and induced lucidity in the dream that ended naturally after 10 minutes. 

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Rapid Eye Movement - Music in a Dream
The anthem played twice again but the effect was only noticeable on the eye movements the first time it played although I made a note in the dream to finally write the playlist function when it played the second time. 

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Awake in a Dream
The track played twice and it was quite something to hear it start while I was already lucid. Now that I can export to video and even HD (coming soon to most entries) the very next feature that I need to finish coding is the ability to manage playlists… 

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Lucid Dreaming Rapid Eye Movement
A classic example of the process squezed into a single minute; vibrations for 10 seconds, 10 rapid eye movements over the course of 30 seconds and lucidity triggered by the track for 20 seconds. All in a night’s work. 

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Lucid Dreaming
I experimented with a slightly different position of the sensors in the halograph. Although the eye movements are a lot weaker than normal, they were luckily just strong enough for the algorithm to detect. 12 blinks can be seen in the minute above when the track was almost seamlessly integrated into the dream. 

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Earthquake

REM Detector
I started dreaming at 0243, became lucid at 0244 (pictured above) and removed the halograph at 0259 at the end of the dream. A very strange wave-like pattern can be seen in the hourly overview starting at 0306 and ending at 0706. This was recorded while idling on the bedpost. An earthquake, perhaps, thousands of miles from the Ring of Fire? 

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Lucid Dream Measurement
The track played within a minute of the onset of REM and interrupted the blinking for 30 seconds. After stopping to study the minutiae in my hands long enough to be sure, the blinking continued in the next minute during a spurt of lucidity. The brief flight that followed, albeit well under a minute, was worth all the hours that have gone into this over the years. 

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REM Rebound

REM Rebound Chart
There was too much to code at the end of the night again and I logged off very late. For the third time in a row. On top of that, the first two triggers woke me up immediately – right out of the start of the dreams. It was just as though random thoughts were being blown out of proportion. 

In the minute selected above you will see 13 spikes, roughly every three seconds. These are the blinks or rapid eye movements. The smaller blue spikes in between them are the heartbeat, but it is not very clear in this recording. The orange line (fREM) is when the program played the audio track.

The final REM cycle started with abnormally long / powerful blinks, which luckily slipped past the algorithm. And I had the longest dream on record; 15 minutes of non-stop rapid eye moving action. The anthem triggered at a perfect part in the dream, raining music from the heavens and a few minutes of solid lucidity at the end.

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