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

Quick update.

My next night was only a partial one, but I got an interesting result. I went to bed in the evening, and had a long and vivid dream. I remembered quite a lot from it, and even had some "semi-lucidity". (where I realized the rules were somehow different/more-bendable than normal, but didn't specifically identify it as being a dream)

However, I decided to stay in bed and fall back asleep. A awoke a few hours later, but was disappointed because I didn't remember any more dreams (at least beyond a few weak fragments). This has happened many times in the past, and I've generally assumed it just meant that I wasn't paying enough attention, so didn't recognize when the later dreams had occurred.

As suggested by my sleep chart below however, this might not always be the case:


Rather than me just "not recognizing" a standard set of dreams, I really just did not have any quality rem segments after that initial burst! That is, it's no wonder I didn't remember much from the later dreams, because the later dreams (assuming they occurred) were much weaker than the initial one. So the lack of further dream memories (after an awakening) that I've hit so often in the past, may sometimes just be due to unusual sleep cycles and the like affecting rem-sleep quality, as opposed to flaws in my mental preparation. (I'm sure there's some degree of that as well; nonetheless, it's encouraging)

It's worth noting that after the section above, I did fall back asleep. I didn't expect to, so I didn't put my headset back on, so unfortunately I didn't get the chart for it. I do remember the dreams were vivid again in that next section, so the dampened-REM effect seen above seems to have ended by that time. In the future, I plan to keep making the session-starting process easier so I miss fewer of these accidental-sleep segments. (for example, having the audio status reports let me know if the camera successfully connected, as opposed to the current manual confirmation process, as well as an option that automatically starts a session when it detects that you've turned the Muse S device on)