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Subtle REM

Filed under: Dj Shog - This Is My Sound, Lucid Dream, lucidcode Halograph FM, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-20
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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Just In Time

Filed under: Kai Tracid - 4 Just 1 Day, lucidcode Halograph FM, REM Sleep, Wake Back To Bed by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-17
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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Lord of Earth

Filed under: Dj Tiesto - Lord of Trance, lucidcode Halograph FM by KI.ANU — Leave a comment
2011-10-13
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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Heartbeat

Filed under: lucidcode Halograph FM by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-12
Heartbeat Graph
No dreams that I can remember, only a good, clean heartbeat reading; 50 beats can be seen in the minute featured above. 

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No Rebound

Filed under: lucidcode Halograph FM, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-11
No REM Rebound Chart
After a few nights of too little sleep I was expecting REM rebound again but only recorded a minute. 

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Dream Alarm

Filed under: Dream, Kai Tracid - 4 Just 1 Day, lucidcode Halograph FM, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-07
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

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode Halograph FM, Orbital - Halcyon +On +On, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — 3 Comments
2011-10-06
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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Gone in 60 Seconds

Filed under: Lucid Dream, lucidcode Halograph FM, Orbital - Halcyon +On +On, REM Sleep by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-10-03
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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Hourly Pattern

Filed under: lucidcode Halograph FM, Sleep Paralysis by Michael Paul Coder — 3 Comments
2011-09-29
Sleep Paralysis
Another late night and no REM sleep. The hourly view, pictured above, sometimes shows interesting patterns, but I have not yet figured out what – if anything, they mean. 

I have a suspicion, for example, that the first fifteen minutes of relative silence could be due to sleep paralysis. But I was not conscious at the time, so this calls for further investigation.

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REM Alarm

Filed under: Dream, lucidcode Halograph FM, REM Sleep, The Prodigy - Voodoo People by Michael Paul Coder — Leave a comment
2011-09-25
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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