Thread: A Prototype & idea - The Dream Clock

I've had a similar idea for a few years (I was an electrical engineering student), and it's really hard to make it in hardware. You will put a lot of effort, and the product may not work at all! This spring I was finally able to make a lucid dreaming android app, using a lot of the features I thought of over the years.. You can find the source code (java) here: android-lucid-dreaming-app - Using Android phones to induce lucid dreaming - Google Project Hosting . It does quite a lot of things that you mentioned, although the success rates have been pretty disappointing.

-customizeable alarm tones
-autosnooze
-custom timers
-ability to mark up dreams
-Digital clock in any color!

What it is missing is a solid method of detecting if the user is dreaming or not. Without it, TOO much effort is needed to estimate when to play reminders.

Thank you Ev,

I will take what you have said into consideration, It however seems incredibly hard to find a proper and simple way to detect dreams.
The clock could feature a mattress sensor of some sort, but it still seems quite an unreliable method to me, I will have to further my research on the subject of detecting dreams.
Perhaps there is some to be learned from sleep labs other than eye REM sensors (which I guess would be pretty uncomfortable to use more than, perhaps, once a week)

And thank you for the source code, that could prove mighty helpful!