Thread: Bio2Real Time, a free iPhone app coming soon

I've made a small discovery that may have major implications for dream research, lucid dreaming and the quality of sleep. For this, I created an iPhone 4 iOS 5.0 app that is currently going through the app store approval process.

The Bio2Real Time is the world's first biological to real clock translator.



It is free!

I found this by analyzing sleep data from my alpha iPhone lucid dreaming app. I would consistently go to bed, turn around after 20 minutes, then go to sleep. Upon awakening, I would estimate sleep cycles from the plot and realize that the first sleep cycle that I was having seemed to start at that moment when I turned around in bed.



This puzzled me, as it went against what I expected: sleep cycles starting at Time in Bed +0, advancing in 90 to 110 minute intervals. Luckily I have the code to estimate the twilight times for the current location from GPS on iPhone. So I took the start of my first sleep cycle and counted back by 90 minutes. Sure enough, it aligned with the civil twilight time!
I did additional research into biological clock, and it appears that Melatonin secretion starts 2 sleep cycle lengths after sunset and continues throughout the night, until about 7:30 biological clock time.

With this information, I created an app that positions biological clock against the real local clock(with daylight saving time accounted for). The clock additionally displays 3 ideal times to bed for 6, 7.5 and 9 hours of sleep. The awakening time is kept consistent.

With these times in bed, and a consistent awakening times, you would dream at around the same time every single day!

I already have my dreams narrowed down to a 15-20 minute band at the end of each of my dream cycles. What this means is that with this machinery, the need to set custom timers, estimate REM episodes would disappear from the lucid dreaming app. the app would simply turn on my custom dream detector at a given time and let it do it's magic!

While the app is geared more towards mass market consumer, I'm certain that lucid dreamers would appreciate a tool to help them estimate when they would dream!

More info:
Bio2Real Time » Lucid Dreaming App






if you have any suggestions or questions, please post them and I'll be happy to comment!