Personal project – using Zeo and other consumer hardware to improve sleep and archive ludid dreaming

Hello fellow dreamers,

I've recently purchased the Zeo "personal sleep coach" that uses EEG to analyze your sleep, with lots of goodies around it such as a personal online portal to visualize the sleep cycles and find out which factors are causing you to sleep more or less well. Even more interesting is the fact that they're working on making it possible for software developers such as my self to collect real time data from the device.

Inspired by this, I've decided to pick up a new life goal of having lucid dreams with some consistency. I am planning to use the Zeo, my Android phone, a vibrating bluetooth wrist band and a few other bits and pieces to help me do so. I've also started a blog at lucid.softmemes.com to document the project and the results. Hopefully it will lead to at least a generally available Android application to help having lucid dreams more often, as well as DIY instructions for how to go even further by use of the Zeo.

I would love to hear your comments and ideas as the project progresses!

Cheers,
Kristian

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Welcome to DV. As still somewhat of a newcomer, I can say that the people here are great.

I've had a Zeo for about two months and it's great. My LDs have improved since I've used the Zeo and the coaching program to improve my overall sleep fitness. Often I find that LD practices will work against the sleep fitness scores. For example, I wake up often after REM cycles to recall dreams and often stay awake a while as a WBTB. Zeo will count this as a negative. But as long as your understand these considerations, the Zeo will be a benefit to improving your sleep and LDs.

So yeah. Keep up with the Zeo and with your LD practices and you'll surely make progress quickly. Good luck!

The Zeo looks awesome, wish I had enough spare money to buy one -sigh-

Thank you for the welcome sisyphus, it always help to have the support of a community when you take on a new project!
Inphinity, yes, it is a bit pricy - more so in Europe than the US at that, but so far I love it. Had this been five years ago when I was still at uni, it would have been completely out of the question to get one.

I've just posted a blog entry about what exactly my plan for this project is, please comment on the idea!

I'm not accusing anyone here... but the Zeo people have been targeting this forum. Two posts, and they're both rave reviews for Zeo? Nothings wrong with ultra politeness either but it's classic idiot PR. Kinda suspicious if you ask me.

In my opinion the product seems too much like something you'd see in an infomercial (where it kinda works but never quite the way they said it would). So, you know... buyer beware.

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Originally Posted by SystemsLock

I'm not accusing anyone here... but the Zeo people have been targeting this forum. Two posts, and they're both rave reviews for Zeo? Nothings wrong with ultra politeness either but it's classic idiot PR. Kinda suspicious if you ask me.

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SystemsLock, I guess you refer to me as on of the "people from Zeo". I am however not employed by Zeo, nor have I received any form of payment in terms of money or other forms of compensation for blogging about the Zeo. If you did bother to actually check my blog you would have found that although I've had a positive first impression of the device and the company that makes it, I also had some negative criticism regarding the need to buy replacement headbands.

In fact, I have still not uttered an opinion about the actual functionality of the device, one way or another - I have not used the device for long enough yet to express an opinion. How you interpret this as a "rave review" escapes me.