Thread: What (if any) technology are you using to enhance your LD experience?

Sooo. I started out simply enough using a free App for my Iphone called Sleep Cycle to asses what, if any factors in my waking life affected my sleep quality, and, as a side benefit, was able to map out the "typical" times when I was clearly asleep, and could divine from the charts the times and intervals of my REM sleep. I've used this App nightly for well over a year and it has provided me with a wealth of information.

More recently, I have started to use the built in capabilities of my ITouch to record my dreams at any time I wake and recall them, and transcribe them into my journal in the morning. The benefit of this is that it is ONE button push to record (I start the app before I go to sleep) and it time-stamps the entry. My DJ has exploded with dreams in much greater detail than ever before because I don't have to turn on any light nor do I wait until the morning to try and recall all my dreams from the night before. Used in conjunction with Sleep Cycle on the Iphone, I get corroborative evidence of when during the night/morning I am dreaming/waking since each file is date and time stamped automatically.

Lastly, about 2 weeks ago I purchased a REM-Dreamer mask. For those who are unfamiliar, it is a circuit board that fits into a mask which has LED lights and (optionally) a buzzer that sounds when it detects REM via a built-in infra-red detector of rapid-eye movements. So far it has successfully sent cues into my dreams twice (I've used it very sparingly) and although they were OBVIOUS, I failed to relate the glaring lights that intruded into my dreams with the fact that the REM-Dreamer was alerting me to the fact that I was dreaming. The device did ITS job perfectly...I just didn't do mine. I expect now that I know what to watch for, I'll "see" the cues and realize I'm dreaming. Using the Sleep App data as a guide, I've been setting the REM detection delay of the REM-Dreamer mask to the optimal time of morning when it is clear I am dreaming...in a sense helping the device to do its job.

Anyway...I am curious to know what if any technological aids people on this forum are employing to enhance the likelihood of successfully recognizing the dream state and achieving lucidity. What say you???