Thread: Build Your Own Lucid Dreaming Mask

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.

Looks like too much trouble to get working

not sure if its been posted before but I have the instructions to make the mask at this site: http://www.lucid-dreams.co.uk/toolkit.htm