Category: Tracks


Broken Record

Awake During Rapid Eye Movement
The track started over and over again and woke me up. I did not remember anything from the dream. But I enjoyed the anthem. The onset of REM can be seen in the minute above and in the minute that followed fREM can be seen triggering the anthem 4 times. 

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Dreamed Halt
The track played at the onset of REM but it did not feel like I was dreaming or even asleep. I was conscious and knew what was going on around me and then heard the music. 

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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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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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Wake Back To Bed - WBTB
I fell asleep with the halograph idling on the bed post and only put it on when I woke up at 0430. REM started within 7 minutes of lying down again. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the wake-back-to-bed technique. Around 10 erratic eye movements can be seen in the minute above. 

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Toddler Heartbeat at Rest
My first-born son has been asking for his turn to try the halograph. As a natural lucid dreamer I believe he is more intrugued by the idea of hearing “uncle” Tiesto, his favorite DJ, spin in his dreams than by inducing lucidity. 

I can’t see any distinct rapid eye movements in the recording, but got some good heart rate measurements. A very rough observation from looking at just two minutes; my heart beats at a rate of 50 BPM whereas his heart manages 74 BPM at rest.

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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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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 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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