Thread: Build Your Own Lucid Dreaming Mask

Score one for the Mask!

I had about a ten minute LD at the very end of my sleep cycle. Realized I was dreaming when the dream went blink blink, like white/dream/white/dream. About as obvious as it could be. I had about a ten minute dream overall, with probably about 5 minutes of it lucid. And I was really lucid. The most I have ever been anyways, still not 100% conscious. The thing is, this could be a placebo, becuase when I woke up, the mask was on the side of the bed. I could have taken it off during the dream, or yeah, placebo'd. Either way, I am happy and counting this as a victory for the mask.

Hahahahaha. That's pretty awesome. Congratulations on the lucid dream! : D

hmm yeah well either way good job, and let us know if you ever have one for sure... like when your mask is on.. haah

I just built one of these yesterday and tried it out last night. I had a short lucid dream during the last REM, which is not unusual for me and actually occured with the mask off.

However, with the mask on I did have a series of very vivid, long dreams, some of them quite strange. And my recall is astounding today. I remember at least five different dreams distinctly; usually I recall only two or three.

I am confident that with further experiments and a bit of training this device will pay off. I am planning on combining it with a sound playing program I coded that waits for a duration of time and then plays a sound file of my watch beeping (the hourly alarm I use to remind myself to do reality checks while awake) and my voice saying dream-suggestive things. I'll let you know the results.

how hard is it to make it? i am not very good with my hands but something like this might be worth trying out.

Is anyone still interested in this? I have just built one and am currently testing it. Attached are the pics of my handiwork. Don't mock the burnt wires and board It was my first soldering project! Eventually, I emerged victorious.

As mentioned before, the thing blinks 2x6 times, then waits for 5 hours, intending to blink while you're in REM. Unfortunately, my cat started yowling literally 4:59 into my sleep cycle. MEEEEYOOOOUURRRRLLL! I sat up, and *blink, blink*. Not only did the damnable creature wake me up just before the mask was set to lucidify me, it also dumped the memory of the dream I had been having.

Oh man, was I steamed. No problem, I thought, it'll blink once an hour until I wake up. I have two more opportunities. WRONG. Some clown on a jackhammer started up right outside my window about half an hour later, effectively ending my sleep cycle for good.

Now I'm no better than the walking dead, but I will try again tonight and keep you posted.

Nice work, sand_worm.


I don't have time or the equipment to make one like that, so I was wondering if just a blinking light would work. I could just go to sleep with a blinking light close to my eye and hopefully notice it when I go into REM. What do you guys think?

And you find it fine to get to sleep with it on your face? I would have thought that the LEDs would dig into your eyelids.

Actually it's no problem for sleeping with it on my face. I am used to using the sleeping mask anyway, and you can't even feel the LEDs, because they're not quite touching your eyelids.

Update for last night: If I could just quit getting woken up from external sources, this thing would work great. For the second time in a row, I have noticed one weird behavior though: Sometime during the night, my brain flips out, and I keep thinking I have to turn on the mask, or reconnect some wire, or the solder didn't hold so the wires are all sticking off. Of course this is nonsense, and the mask goes off shortly after, but both nights I've noticed my mind going through this loop. Last night I used it as a reality check, and was able to get lucidity, but my dream was foggy, as if it hadn't developed into a full dream yet. I did notice the flashing later in the early morning as well, but with my girlfriend getting up and going in and out of the bedroom I wasn't dreaming anyway.

I still have faith in the device though, my sleep schedule has just been unfairly interrupted the last couple of days.

More updates as I have them! Any questions, I'm watching this thread.

Evil Joe: Personally, I don't think I'd be able to sleep with a constantly blinking light, even with the resistors making these LEDs far below their normal brightness, it's quite bright against my eyelid when my eyes are adjusted to the dark.

It's worth a shot if you can stand it, but if you come back with twitching eyelids and a hunger for human brains, don't say I didn't warn you

Sounds sort of like the Dream Light. Stephen LaBerge created one after a lot of research, and a lot of people have tried it and have gotten lucid dreams from it.

Well if I was rich and lived alone I would try to buy one. A 10 minutes LD would be great for me! Although I would probably take those 10 minutes trying to find my DG while I should be talking to DCs and interacting more with my dream.

Originally Posted by sand_worm

Evil Joe: Personally, I don't think I'd be able to sleep with a constantly blinking light, even with the resistors making these LEDs far below their normal brightness, it's quite bright against my eyelid when my eyes are adjusted to the dark.

It's worth a shot if you can stand it, but if you come back with twitching eyelids and a hunger for human brains, don't say I didn't warn you

Lol.

Well as soon as I find something around the house with a constantly blinking light, I'll try it out. Maybe I'll just put whatever it is next to my bed, so if I'm facing it, I should be able to see the light.

Looks like too much trouble to get working

not sure if its been posted before but I have the instructions to make the mask at this site: http://www.lucid-dreams.co.uk/toolkit.htm

Yes you did post it

It seems like the induction methods work just as well... I mean has anybody got the darn thing to work?

Also kinda seems like training wheels for me... I personally DID use training wheels to learn to ride a bike lol but now i'm just trying to WILD my way straight into a lucid so... if the mask works, though, then cool!

I've wondered if it might be possible to build one using a USB-powered lamp. But doing some googling, I can't seem to find any information on software that can control USB-powered lights. It does seem relatively easy to make one using soldering and powering it through a miniplug, but I've never done anything even remotely like that in my life, and I would have no idea how to start or to make it work. Do places like RadioShack have any service that does work for you, like how Home Depot can do cutting and stuff for you?

The mask I built works like it's supposed to, but it's still too bright, even with reasonably strong resistors keeping the LEDs nice and dim. I'm going to try to dim it down even further so it doesn't wake me up. I'm an uber-light sleeper though, so it might be better for others.

The wires are an absolue bitch to solder!

I ordered the pre build mask (iam not technical)
I will keep you guys posted on my findings.

Originally Posted by lvlln

I've wondered if it might be possible to build one using a USB-powered lamp. But doing some googling, I can't seem to find any information on software that can control USB-powered lights. It does seem relatively easy to make one using soldering and powering it through a miniplug, but I've never done anything even remotely like that in my life, and I would have no idea how to start or to make it work. Do places like RadioShack have any service that does work for you, like how Home Depot can do cutting and stuff for you?

Brilliant idea to use a USB light!
I don't know if it's possible to control it with software, but if it is possible, then I can certainly write the software.
After we have the software, all that is needed is to mount the USB light right above your head. The software will flash it using the same principles as the DIY dream mask.

I will try to find out if it's possible to turn USB lights on and off by software.

Damn, it seems that it's impossible to turn off a USB light by software

Originally Posted by dodobird

Damn, it seems that it's impossible to turn off a USB light by software

Why is that, there has to be someway. You can write a software that disables the driver for the usb port, therefore disconnecting power. Then re-enable it repeatedly at a set time. It will give the flashing effects.