Thread: Did anyone use the DreamZ iPhone app yet?

So I just bought the app. I'll try it out tonight and report back.

I hope Hedgehog above has a little more luck than I did. I think maybe it was my fault. Just a bad sleeping experience tonight or something.

Current time: 6:14.

I slept for a good bit last night, but I'm pretty sure I only had one dream. I woke up once during the night, and I'm not sure if I woke up from the message on my iPod or not. I may have just woken up naturally.

Anyway, after a little bit I woke up again. At that point I laid there for about 25 minutes and was unable to fall back asleep.

During that time I shifted around for a little while, and the app actually played my message to me and startled me. It's not that the message was loud but rather that I was just not expecting it.

The app shows pretty much a bar line up until around 3:15-ish AM where I had a REM cycle, and then the second cycle was at 5:15-ish AM, but I think that that may have just been me waking up and moving around before it played the message back to me.

Then you can see me descend back to deep sleep and then suddenly rocket back up around 6:02 as I was finally deciding that I couldn't go back to sleep.

It says that my total sleep time was 6:22 and my longest dream was 12 minutes. Haha. I had originally set it to wake me up after about 10 hours of sleep, but by the time I woke up I knew that wasn't going to happen. I was wide awake and largely uncomfortable.

Overall I can't decide if I'm happy with the app yet or not. It seems to be doing its job, but these were not ideal testing conditions for the first night, and that's not really the app's fault. I need to keep trying it before I decide whether I like it or not.



Here's an app suggestion:

-Add a way to click/tap on a peak and it will give you the information of an x-y time. Like 2:24 AM to 2:45 AM. So you can see at exactly what time the REM stage occurred.

I set my alarm to 7am but it never woke me up. It said I woke up at 6:56am but I woke up at 7:36am. I need to set the actual alarm volume higher, but luckily I only set the alarm for the purpose of having a lucid dream; I didn't really have anything to do this morning. I only remember one of my dreams, it was a weird dream, but other than that nothing. I might have to try this again; I might just be a heavy sleeper. The app was pretty accurate at the time I actually feel asleep, but I can't say for anything else though.

I just got the app! I'm going to try it tonight and post results tomorrow.

I tried it again tonight and everything just went wrong. Though it was sorta my fault. So I set my alarm to 8 but I woke up at 7. I tried to fall back asleep but my cue came on and it scared me. I grabbed my iPod in panic and ended up dropping it on the floor, so then my case broke. Then I actually feel out of my bed. Worst of all I forgot my dream! I was pretty sure it was lucid though, I just can't remember!

Sorry that happened to you Hedgehog! Better luck next time

I just bought this app on my iPod and I'm waiting for it to install so I can go to sleep and try it! By the way, does it come with pre-recorded messages? (I don't have a microphone!) And are they as effective as personal messages?

Can't wait to try it! I'll post my results tomorrow!

Didn't have much luck last night. Went to bed at 00:35 and kept falling asleep for a few minutes then waking up. Couldn't sleep for the first hour or so (probably something to do with going to bed to late the night before). The alarm woke me up at 10:00.

The app tells me I was awake all night and had 0 dreams. Hmm. What went wrong? I didn't lock the screen and the iPod was connected to my laptop. I even checked the calibration before I started, which was fine.

EDIT: Silly me! Just checked my settings and it was set to auto-lock after 1 minute. Well, I'll try again tonight and hopefully get better results!

Originally Posted by Hedgehog

I tried it again tonight and everything just went wrong. Though it was sorta my fault. So I set my alarm to 8 but I woke up at 7. I tried to fall back asleep but my cue came on and it scared me. I grabbed my iPod in panic and ended up dropping it on the floor, so then my case broke. Then I actually feel out of my bed. Worst of all I forgot my dream! I was pretty sure it was lucid though, I just can't remember!

For clarification, I really didn't mean to like it because you had such a bad experience. I liked it because the message came up and scared you and that's exactly what happened to me the first night I used it... Haha.

Also, I had a very good collection of dreams last night. Very good. Here's the problem. I woke up this morning to get my iPod and looked at my chart and grazed the "Back" button and all my data was gone. That was wonderful.

Please, Please, Adam, add a message that asks you if you're SURE that you want to go back when you're in the data recording screen!

I tried again and made sure all the settings were correct, but it still says I had 0 dreams ect. It shows me as awake for five minutes, then it drops down to deep sleep for the rest of the night. Since the app works by detecting movements in the mattress, I'm wondering if it will still work with a memory foam mattress? If not, looks like I won't be able to use it at all, since all the beds in the house have memory foam!

I'll keep running it for the next few nights anyway.

Originally Posted by lifeinsteps

Also, I had a very good collection of dreams last night. Very good. Here's the problem. I woke up this morning to get my iPod and looked at my chart and grazed the "Back" button and all my data was gone. That was wonderful.

Please, Please, Adam, add a message that asks you if you're SURE that you want to go back when you're in the data recording screen!

Thanks lifeinsteps, actually a lot of people reported this issues, I will be sure to fix it in the next version.

Originally Posted by ErikaEH

I tried again and made sure all the settings were correct, but it still says I had 0 dreams ect. It shows me as awake for five minutes, then it drops down to deep sleep for the rest of the night. Since the app works by detecting movements in the mattress, I'm wondering if it will still work with a memory foam mattress? If not, looks like I won't be able to use it at all, since all the beds in the house have memory foam!

I'll keep running it for the next few nights anyway.

I never tried this app on a memory foam mattress so I can't really tell if this is the problem, but it can just be the calibration. Since you had several nights with the lock screen on, maybe it messed up the calibration. Try to perform a manual calibration which will reset it. If it still doesn't work, let me know in a private message and I'll check deeper to see what's the problem.

Alright, sorry it's not exactly tomorrow... but I have tried the app. Sadly, the results weren't as I had hoped. It did accurately track that I had 6 dreams, which sounds about right, but I was unable to have a lucid dream using a cue I had made. My dreams were easier to recall than normal though, be it coincidence or not.

Originally Posted by adamsiton

Thanks lifeinsteps, actually a lot of people reported this issues, I will be sure to fix it in the next version.

Sounds great. Otherwise I've used the app for since I got it. Somehow I never hear the message. I haven't found the right volume to make sure I do... Haha.

But it always seems to do a great job recording my dreams.

It even got this morning where I work up around 5:40 AM and then fell back into deep sleep for a little while before waking up for good. I thought that was pretty cool to see on the chart. Haha.

I deleted my post of earlier last night saying it still wasn't working. Because tonight I had much better results.

It worked completely! Perhaps not in the way that was intended, but completely!

It's supposed to tell you when you're dreaming that you're dreaming. It actually woke me up in my bed, but I realized what the message was and lay there for a few extra seconds and began visualizing a beach. Soon my entire body vibrated and I slowly weaved in and out of the dream world... I knew that I was in sleep paralysis. I knew that most people get scared but I wasn't. I would go in and out and all I knew was that I wanted this lucid dream more than anything.

So I began to smile. At first I worried that me smiling would count as muscle movement and would wake my body up. It didn't. I smiled a little, and then more, and then more, until eventually I opened my eyes and lay in my bed once more. I plugged my nose. I could breathe. I SHOT UP! I was having a lucid dream!

My first REAL lucid dream! Where I got to get up, and go do things that I wanted to, and go try out my goals, and go have fun! It was magnificent, and I can't thank you enough for making the app that aided me!

Basically I suppose I'm also just letting you know that this little app certainly has the ability to aid you to lucid dream, whether that be in one way or another.

That's awesome, lifeinsteps! Glad it worked for you, your success has given me hope (lol).

I'm staying over at my Nana's at the moment, so I'll be able to try with a non-memory foam mattress. I did re-calibrate my iPod but haven't tried the app again since.

Originally Posted by ErikaEH

That's awesome, lifeinsteps! Glad it worked for you, your success has given me hope (lol).

I'm staying over at my Nana's at the moment, so I'll be able to try with a non-memory foam mattress. I did re-calibrate my iPod but haven't tried the app again since.

Great luck to you, Erika! I hope you have success! I couldn't be more appreciative of how it went last night, and I can't wait to see if it will work for me once more.

Congratulations on that lifeinsteps! Again, your post has also given me hope!

I wish my iPod would charge faster so I could go look at this app!

Ugg... I just realized my sister has it on her iPod so that when I download an app it downloads it on hers... Its honestly really annoying...

I used DreamZ yesterday but it didnt really work.

- i bought a strap to put my ipod around my arm and will try that tonight (maybe with earplugs).

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Originally Posted by Sammy6200

I used DreamZ yesterday but it didnt really work.

- i bought a strap to put my ipod around my arm and will try that tonight (maybe with earplugs).

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I don't believe this app is configured to work strapped to your arm, unless there has been an update.

Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf

I don't believe this app is configured to work strapped to your arm, unless there has been an update.

well the app works because the ipod/iphone is moved when your moving in the bed, shouldn't it have the same effect when you're moving when its strapped to your arm?

How does this app pick up on your rem cycle and what not?

and how long you dreamnt for?

Originally Posted by Wrighty

How does this app pick up on your rem cycle and what not?

It picks up vibrations and movement through the accelerometer.

Originally Posted by Sammy6200

I used DreamZ yesterday but it didnt really work.

- i bought a strap to put my ipod around my arm and will try that tonight (maybe with earplugs).

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Please tell how this worked out for you as I think I also have to use a strap.
My boyfriend sleeps in the same bed as me and I'm afraid that his moving will be recorded along with my moving if I put it directly on the bed.