Thread: Build Your Own Lucid Dreaming Mask

Well if I was rich and lived alone I would try to buy one. A 10 minutes LD would be great for me! Although I would probably take those 10 minutes trying to find my DG while I should be talking to DCs and interacting more with my dream.

seems like a total waste of money if you ask me. 200 dollars just to realize your dreaming?

nah man its only 30 bucks, and im willing to try anything at this point...

It will work but you should also condition your mind to do RCs when you see the light go off otherwise you will just know it's the light going off and continue dreaming.

IMJ

yes yes i know that... it's going to work great, but all i want to know is how long does the shipping take from the people that have actually bought the kit. it seems that the people that know this have been inactive from this site for awhile. grrr...

Understandably so. But thus far the mask hasn't even really had a chance to do its stuff.

Score one for the Mask!

I had about a ten minute LD at the very end of my sleep cycle. Realized I was dreaming when the dream went blink blink, like white/dream/white/dream. About as obvious as it could be. I had about a ten minute dream overall, with probably about 5 minutes of it lucid. And I was really lucid. The most I have ever been anyways, still not 100% conscious. The thing is, this could be a placebo, becuase when I woke up, the mask was on the side of the bed. I could have taken it off during the dream, or yeah, placebo'd. Either way, I am happy and counting this as a victory for the mask.

Hahahahaha. That's pretty awesome. Congratulations on the lucid dream! : D

hmm yeah well either way good job, and let us know if you ever have one for sure... like when your mask is on.. haah

I just built one of these yesterday and tried it out last night. I had a short lucid dream during the last REM, which is not unusual for me and actually occured with the mask off.

However, with the mask on I did have a series of very vivid, long dreams, some of them quite strange. And my recall is astounding today. I remember at least five different dreams distinctly; usually I recall only two or three.

I am confident that with further experiments and a bit of training this device will pay off. I am planning on combining it with a sound playing program I coded that waits for a duration of time and then plays a sound file of my watch beeping (the hourly alarm I use to remind myself to do reality checks while awake) and my voice saying dream-suggestive things. I'll let you know the results.

how hard is it to make it? i am not very good with my hands but something like this might be worth trying out.

Is anyone still interested in this? I have just built one and am currently testing it. Attached are the pics of my handiwork. Don't mock the burnt wires and board It was my first soldering project! Eventually, I emerged victorious.

As mentioned before, the thing blinks 2x6 times, then waits for 5 hours, intending to blink while you're in REM. Unfortunately, my cat started yowling literally 4:59 into my sleep cycle. MEEEEYOOOOUURRRRLLL! I sat up, and *blink, blink*. Not only did the damnable creature wake me up just before the mask was set to lucidify me, it also dumped the memory of the dream I had been having.

Oh man, was I steamed. No problem, I thought, it'll blink once an hour until I wake up. I have two more opportunities. WRONG. Some clown on a jackhammer started up right outside my window about half an hour later, effectively ending my sleep cycle for good.

Now I'm no better than the walking dead, but I will try again tonight and keep you posted.

Nice work, sand_worm.


I don't have time or the equipment to make one like that, so I was wondering if just a blinking light would work. I could just go to sleep with a blinking light close to my eye and hopefully notice it when I go into REM. What do you guys think?

And you find it fine to get to sleep with it on your face? I would have thought that the LEDs would dig into your eyelids.

Actually it's no problem for sleeping with it on my face. I am used to using the sleeping mask anyway, and you can't even feel the LEDs, because they're not quite touching your eyelids.

Update for last night: If I could just quit getting woken up from external sources, this thing would work great. For the second time in a row, I have noticed one weird behavior though: Sometime during the night, my brain flips out, and I keep thinking I have to turn on the mask, or reconnect some wire, or the solder didn't hold so the wires are all sticking off. Of course this is nonsense, and the mask goes off shortly after, but both nights I've noticed my mind going through this loop. Last night I used it as a reality check, and was able to get lucidity, but my dream was foggy, as if it hadn't developed into a full dream yet. I did notice the flashing later in the early morning as well, but with my girlfriend getting up and going in and out of the bedroom I wasn't dreaming anyway.

I still have faith in the device though, my sleep schedule has just been unfairly interrupted the last couple of days.

More updates as I have them! Any questions, I'm watching this thread.

Evil Joe: Personally, I don't think I'd be able to sleep with a constantly blinking light, even with the resistors making these LEDs far below their normal brightness, it's quite bright against my eyelid when my eyes are adjusted to the dark.

It's worth a shot if you can stand it, but if you come back with twitching eyelids and a hunger for human brains, don't say I didn't warn you

Originally Posted by sand_worm

Evil Joe: Personally, I don't think I'd be able to sleep with a constantly blinking light, even with the resistors making these LEDs far below their normal brightness, it's quite bright against my eyelid when my eyes are adjusted to the dark.

It's worth a shot if you can stand it, but if you come back with twitching eyelids and a hunger for human brains, don't say I didn't warn you

Lol.

Well as soon as I find something around the house with a constantly blinking light, I'll try it out. Maybe I'll just put whatever it is next to my bed, so if I'm facing it, I should be able to see the light.