Novadreamer on steroids . . . .

**topcat** · 10-03-2011 10:11 PM

This link will take you to social dreaming which will involves a dream detection EEG headband, a website and programs that employ lucid lamp/audio cues for interacting with other dreamers over the internet.
Dreamshare

From the readme.txt file:

Welcome to the world of social dreaming!

Social dreaming is the new practice of using a website and some type of dream recognition product to allow dreamers to interact via the internet.

For an introduction to this topic, see my writings on lucid dreaming and multi-player dream games at http://books.google.com/books?id=tMS...page&q&f=false .

These Python 2.7 programs all use the Zeo home EEG device (http://www.myzeo.com) and www.sleepstreamonline.com ; you should be registered on www.sleepstreamonline.com and recording sleep sessions before using these programs. A page on the website leads you through the initial setup process for the hardware and streaming brain wave data to the site.

The current code in these programs uses Windows and ActiveHome (lamp control) functions (http://www.x10.com/products/x10_ck11a.htm) but can be modified for other types of lucid cues and operating systems. The programs are also currently set up for the shared dreamers to be in the same time zone, but this can be modified to universal time.

Other downloads you may need for these implementations in Windows are www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm for the Zeo cable serial to Virtual COM Port Driver and sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files for the lamp control in Python.

Programs:
sleepStreamUploaderWithEyeSignal.py - upstream EEG with intentional eye movement signal detection
(Code modified from Brian Schiffer's sleepStreamUploader.py program)
solodream.py - solo lucid dreaming
syncdream.py - synchronized lucid dreaming for two sleepers
remoteCue.py - one way dream communication for a website viewer to send a signal to a dreamer
dream2dream.py - dream to dream communication with lucid cues and intentional eye movements
lamptest.py - for testing the ActiveHome lamp

You may contact me at [email protected] with any questions.

Sweet dreams.

**topcat** · 10-24-2011 03:45 AM

Here is a video on the topic of social dreaming using this technology: Mumbai Seminar - Lucid Dreaming Intro w. Sean on Vimeo

Ev · 10-24-2011 06:19 AM

I checked out your video, it seems interesting. The dreamshare redirect does not work though.

**topcat** · 10-24-2011 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by Ev

I checked out your video, it seems interesting. The dreamshare redirect does not work though.

Here is the corrected link: dreamshare - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

**Pops715** · 10-24-2011 01:16 PM

I'm curious about the headband. I know I toss and turn a bit during the night, so what's to stop it from coming off in the middle of the night if a person rolls over in their sleep?

Ev · 10-24-2011 04:51 PM

I've checked your programs. 9.8kB is a great size

I"m not a python programmer, but was able to understand what you are trying to accomplish. It seems that your biggest benefit to the dreamer is the ability to communicate from within a dream using a sequence of eye movements. This would allow for the reminders to be turned off from within the dream.