A simple WILD helper for the phone

Hello, people. I'm new here, although I read the forum periodically. I started to lucid dreaming four years ago, and since then it has become my top priority, but I've never had something interesting to share here with you. Perhaps(hopefully!) I do have now.

I did a small app for my phone, for addressing the two problems with WILD:

1. You can't fell asleep because you're too focus on counting, visualizing, repeating a mantra or whatever you do to maintain awareness.
2. You passed out.

The app is nothing fancy, just very simple:

1. It triggers a vibration at random, between 30 and 90 seconds. Imagine that this is the phone asking: "are you still awake?". If you are, you press a button, and then the cycle repeats.
2. If you not press a button after the phone vibrates, then you've fell asleep, and so, after 5 minutes, it triggers an alarm sound to wake you up.

As you sure have noticed, you need to have the phone attached to your hand, in order to barely move the finger when you need press the button.

With the vibrations at random, you not need to worry about maintaining awareness, you just go to sleep like you normally do. That worry has been moved to an external device, you just need to confirm that you are awake when the phone asks you.

Now, if you succeed your WILD or not, an alarm is going to wake you up after 5 minutes, but in either case is very easy to reenter the dream, just staying still after you woke up. Of course I could change this to wait 10, 15 minutes before trigger the alarm.

But, it's too soon to draw a conclusion. First, tonight is going to be the third night of testing, althought the previous two nights were a succeed. Second, I have experience in WILDing. Like I said, lucid dreaming is a top priority for me and I worked hard to be able to WILD pretty much whenever I want. I WILD every day of the week, but of the seven days, I only succeed in 5, maybe 6, and I'm never 100% sure that I'm gonna to succeed. I want that 100%, or fairly close to it.

The first night of testing, the phone vibrated a couple of times until I experiencied the usual symptoms of the transition to a lucid dream and I had a FA (thats the way my lucid dreams start with WILD usually). Five minutes later, the alarms woke me up, but I reentered the dream. I didn't want to reenter the dream again after this so I could write down all details of the experience without forgetting anything.

The second night, basically the same thing happened.

I want to point out here that it took me less time to WILD than it usually takes me, and also I fell sure to succeed when WILDing because if I fell asleep, the alarm is going to wake me up.

Have you maybe tried with a similar method? Do you think this may work for you? I could certainly tweak it a little and upload somewhere. In any case, I will continue to post here daily, for the next two weeks, the results with the app.

Forgive, by the way, my english, it's not my first language.

ManuelDario.

I'll follow up on this. Sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing your progress with it.

Last night, unfortunately, there was a terrible storm when I woke up to WILD. The thunders made ​​me jump two feet from my bed, so I wasn't in the best mood to WILD.

I'd love to try this out - is it for Android phones? iPhones? Sounds like a good idea though :)

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Originally Posted by TeaSea

I'd love to try this out - is it for Android phones? iPhones? Sounds like a good idea though :)

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Hello, TeaSea. I don't have any Android or iPhone, just a simple phone with Java ME support. I'm not familiar with those devices, but it seems that you cannot develop midlets for them, am I right? If that's the case, tell me what kind of phone you have and I could certainly do the app works for it.

Meanwhile, the app has been working great. Last night I was very tired, and the alarm woke me up three times, and finally I could wild. This is suggesting that maybe the vibrations at 60 or 90 seconds are too long, but like I said I was very tired.

By the way, today I discovered that my phone has an accelerometer. It would be more comfortable if I attach the phone to my foot, and when it triggers the vibration I only need to barely move the foot. There is nothing wrong right now with the phone in my hand, but I feel It could be improved: the button I have to push it's maybe a little heavy, and there's some kind of pressure in my hand because I need to put the phone close to my finger. I think with the phone attached very light to my foot, I could sleep without being aware of having a device attached to me. Anyway, first I'm going to continue to test the app like I was doing it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure my phone (android) wouldn't work with those I'm afraid :( Sounds good though, I hope it continues to work for you :D

It's like the technological version of Dali's "slumber with a key" method. I loved it. Looking forward to your experiences. But I really want an app like that. I think most people have android or iphone. What are the chances of developing an app just like ManuelDario's? Does anyone have an opinion on that?

Oh, it's very simple to do! Just a few lines of code. I'm not familiar with Android's development, nor do I own an Android phone. It would be great if someone already familiar with Android's development could do it. Anyway, if nobody shows up, I'll give a shot: I really want to know what are your experiences with this app.

Hope someone makes an app for iphone too :D I really want to try it.