Thread: REM DReamer works! Sort Of...

It arrived! I ordered it late friday night and it arrived one week later, saturday morning. I actually missed the mail lady and had to drive around looking for her when I saw the note on the front door. I found her a couple streets down and got my package just in time.

Anyways, it feels comfortable on the tightest Velcro setting(my preference anyways) and seems fairly easy to program. Nice instructions. Can't wait to try this thing out. How's it been going for you evildoctor?

Originally Posted by gameover

It arrived! I ordered it late friday night and it arrived one week later, saturday morning. I actually missed the mail lady and had to drive around looking for her when I saw the note on the front door. I found hand couple streets down and got my package just in time.

Anyways, it feels comfortable on the tightest Velcro setting(my preference anyways) and seems fairly easy to program. Nice instructions. Can't wait to try this thing out. How's it been going for you evildoctor?

Will be interested to hear how you get on. Good luck.

Ok. First night with it. It worked but I foolishly didn't become lucid. First instance of flashing lights was a gun fight that suddenly broke out around me. I was so worried about getting shot it never occurred to me that it could be a dream. Second occurrence , I was a super hero(not something I usually dream of) and it was nighttime. Suddenly I had night vision goggles that would flash on and off rhythmically. I remember thinking .oO(why can't they just stay on? Why do they have to pulse like that?) Then, later in another dream, I was running in a hallway...there was some emergency and the hallway lights were flashing.

So the thing works, and I'm a fool. Better luck this night. Gotta get used to looking for flashing lights.


*****EDIT(adding some extra details about the settings)*****
So I was accidentally using the TWC mode last night because I did not realize I had to turn it off to go to regular mode. I had punched in TWC earlier when messing around with it in the day. I thought punching in the 1-1 preset would turn off TWC. So, most of the night I kept waking up when it started beeping and I just kept setting it to 1-1 again. Finally I read the book in the night and realized there was a way to specifically turn off the TWC. But I actually think I prefer the TWC. It had more effect on me. But perhaps I just need to turn the brightness up. I just might try the TWC setting without the beeps tonight.

The second night I had the flashes set too dim. No effects on my dreams. I think I'm someone who needs it bright.

Last night I was dreaming that I was in my mom's house and the lights in her house started flashing brightly. At first I tried to rationalize it. Then it happened again and I thought..."hey, is this my REM Dreamer?" I did a reality check and immediately realized I was dreaming. I ran to the window to jump out and have some fun but there were 5 sets of blinds in the way. I finally got past them, opened the window and climbed out, but for some reason decided that I could kill myself jumping out the 4th floor window(no 4th or even 3rd floor in real life) , and decided I wasn't in fact dreaming. So I climbed down the side of the house and then came back in.

I'm quite mad at myself but happy that I did get lucid temporarily and I'm getting closer. Im training myself to get used to looking for the flashes. I think I put some extra pressure on myself as well since I just bought this thing and really want it to work for me. But the device does work great. It's giving me great cues. It's in my hands now. After three nights I can say I'm very pleased with the quality of the REM Dreamer. It has done exactly what it's supposed to and is actually better than I thought with all the different options.

Sounds great, and sounds like the stage it takes some people ages to get to you've got to really quickly.

Originally Posted by gameover

The second night I had the flashes set too dim. No effects on my dreams. I think I'm someone who needs it bright.

Last night I was dreaming that I was in my mom's house and the lights in her house started flashing brightly. At first I tried to rationalize it. Then it happened again and I thought..."hey, is this my REM Dreamer?" I did a reality check and immediately realized I was dreaming. I ran to the window to jump out and have some fun but there were 5 sets of blinds in the way. I finally got past them, opened the window and climbed out, but for some reason decided that I could kill myself jumping out the 4th floor window(no 4th or even 3rd floor in real life) , and decided I wasn't in fact dreaming. So I climbed down the side of the house and then came back in.

I'm quite mad at myself but happy that I did get lucid temporarily and I'm getting closer. Im training myself to get used to looking for the flashes. I think I put some extra pressure on myself as well since I just bought this thing and really want it to work for me. But the device does work great. It's giving me great cues. It's in my hands now. After three nights I can say I'm very pleased with the quality of the REM Dreamer. It has done exactly what it's supposed to and is actually better than I thought with all the different options.

Cool - well done.

I was playing with the TWC feature - but found it changes the length of the cues. Like you I need it set failry bright (6) and like 15 - 20 seconds of cues. The TWC feature overides these settings and give short series of cues in increasing brightness.

I still think you should invest the extra 50 bucks and get the Pro DReamer interface and software.

Every morning before work I go to my PC and plug the REM dreamer in and the software tells me how many cues were generated - I can then tweek the settings (if not enough) ready for the next night - this takes seconds rather than fiddle about with the dials.

I have also found that at the weekend when I can sleep in the the TWC feature is good - but I need to turn up the the brightness and cue length during the work week when I only get 5 hours of sleep and so have a very short REM window.

I don't have a pc. I have a mac so I don't think it would work unless I had windows on my mac. Either way, it's easy to see how many cues happened in the
night. And I find the dials easy to use. As far as I know about the software, it doesn't warrant 50 dollars on my tight budget.

The two nights I had
good cues I had it set at the TWC medium level. I like it because it gets brighter, I notice it more, and then it beeps later if I don't wake up. It's also very easy to turn off with eye movements.

So if I set the TWC feature and then turn the beeps down, will TWC override this change? Or does it only override the flash brightness? Because I don't think the beep volume changes between medium and high setting.

Originally Posted by gameover

I don't have a pc. I have a mac so I don't think it would work unless I had windows on my mac. Either way, it's easy to see how many cues happened in the
night. And I find the dials easy to use. As far as I know about the software, it doesn't warrant 50 dollars on my tight budget.

The two nights I had
good cues I had it set at the TWC medium level. I like it because it gets brighter, I notice it more, and then it beeps later if I don't wake up. It's also very easy to turn off with eye movements.

So if I set the TWC feature and then turn the beeps down, will TWC override this change? Or does it only override the flash brightness? Because I don't think the beep volume changes between medium and high setting.

Im pretty sure it will override it. I normally leave the beeps off as these always just wake me up. It for sure overides the cue duration (seconds). Likewise the brightness as it starts low and then increases. Its logical therefore to assume it overides the beep volume also.

It sounds as though its working great for you already so I wouldnt change your game plan. I just seem to need a different plan for my shorter work nights. For me the TWC feature on medium or high will wake me up with the bleeping - and so far I have slept through the cues when set to low (although again this does NOT apply at the weekend when I get 8 or more hours of sleep and plenty of REM time). Manually setting 20 seconds of cues with 3 bright flashes a second works better for me mid week.