Thread: Muse S headband (for REM-detection in custom LD-induction app)

Had my second lucid-dream from the procedure. And more importantly, I finally got around to building a basic UI for reviewing past sessions!

Here is the panel where you select which session to review: (the DJ and REM columns aren't coded/populated yet)


And here is the area where you can review the details from a session:


The video at the left is selected by using the chart at the bottom, clicking one of the "cam recording" areas. It has a playback speed setting for rapid replay of long segments.

The chart at the bottom is the more interesting part, though. It shows an overview of:
1) Eye motions, in the white eeg activity-over-time line.
2) Head motions, in blue (for ignoring eye-movements when awake).
3) Camera-recording periods, in orange.
4) The red and green lines show the "eeg-activity activation threshold" for the light (red) and bed-shaker (green) prompts.

I'm very pleased that the night I finally had a long sleep session (8 hours), also resulted in a second lucid dream from the procedure! (in the last rem segment -- a while after the wakeup at 23:45)

As far as lucid dreams adventuring goes, it was actually below average, but I'm glad I was able to try out the "feel for the real-world prompts you know are occurring right now" objective I'd set earlier:

Spoiler for Journal entry:

Do rc; realize dreaming; vibrates; reset to bed (in old house)

Try getting up; vibrates; reset; happens a couple more times, each time getting slightly further; lock eyes forward; roll out of bed; make it to stairs; feel one more vibration, but start engaging with objects, which keeps me grounded; it's night

Observe family; mom had recently come back from shopping; DW and dad in family room; walk to dining; have fun by flipping table on side and calling new style (mom ignored); walk outside

As walking on street, i look for light and feel for vibration from real-world prompts, when i move my eyes; no longer sense them, tho notice dream destabilization occurring; stop, to keep dreaming

We come across rowdy group near night club; we anger them somehow; i run and fly with others; we lose them, and make to playground far off near lake; one of them finds us, and starts climbing the structure (a few feet beneath me); I roll my eyes (knowing dream), and say...
Me: "Okay, pause, pause."; he obeys.
Me: "So how do you explain your knowing we were here? That seems unrealistic."
Him: "I just searched", he says.
Me: "In this huge city? We have a huge lead, yet somehow you find us right away? On your very first try?"
Him: "Well... it wasn't my first try. It was my second!"
Me: "Really? Then where was the first place you searched?"

He then gestured vaguely behind me. I then turn, and try to visualize what location that would be. Dream world is new of course, so I had no memories; my sister CW "reminded" me that that's in the direction of some previous experience, near some large, fancy houses near a long strip of flat land (visual details from new visual scene forming). It's interesting seeing them, but I don't want them to destabilize my dream too much.

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A while later, I find myself (and my family) at a party at a public park. They are playing games like volleyball, where they're keeping score, and using that to determine the prizes everyone will get. I look at the scoreboard, and it seems to have been manipulated; some numbers seem artificially made equal, and they didn't update the scores properly from last couple of scores. This is reinforced by comments by others. One lady on scoreboard, confirmed this as she walked up, with a certain movement that left her in exactly the same pose as shown in the scoreboard picture, which I found funny.

I re-remember that I'm dreaming, and that I have my eye-tracker device on (with prompts). I decide to try seeing if I can feel the prompts again. I start moving my eyes left and right, which I know the eye-tracker must be picking up on. I try to feel the vibration in my hand that I know is occurring in the real world. I notice some vague flashes in my visual field. I don't feel full-fledged vibration in my hand, but I feel a few minor sensations (not sure if from actual bed-shaker or just dream emulation). I do this for a few more seconds, before the dream finally destabilizes more, and I find myself in the real world (confirmed about a minute later).

Anyway, glad to be back! I plan to be using the system most nights now. (However, due to my unorthodox sleep situation, I often sleep in small segments throughout the day/night. I will usually not post them since these short sleep sessions, I found tend to have "muted"/muddled eeg/dream activity. A full night's sleep appears to increase the intensity of the late-night dreaming sessions, increasing the frequency and intensity of the prompts, as well as forming a meaningful chunk of data that is worth sharing. So, whether I share my next sleep, for example, depends on if it ends up lasting long enough to be worth doing so. I'll try to align my sleep to times where a full night can occur -- though realistically, I often have trouble maintaining that long-term.)