Originally posted by Howetzer
Maybe you could put the settings down as low as they can go and put a dog coller around your neck then ajoining it to your REM have it *jolt you when Rem begins. *


it's true about the wires being nasty, but they would allow for more data recording than a programmable chip would (the more memory the chip has the more expensive it is). i like the idea of a mask because two red leds aren't all that "shocking" when they start flashing, especially since red doesn't dilate your pupils. i also like the idea of a device linked to the hand because let's face it, it's easier to sleep with an oversize watch than... oversized glasses (no one sleeps with glasses on anyway)... and in that case i see how wires could be REALLY problematic.

so yeah, it's a tricky one.

my best bet i think is still with a mask, get the rem detection happening at the side of the forehead and have one wire moving away from your face... in which case it would be a lot like sleeping with headphones on.

but i have another, more important question:

how reliable is the rem pulse method ? i know i build a kvasar and junked it... it took me one month to convince the guys at hamamatsu that i was an electronics company and i needed two samples of the IR sensor... and i ended up breaking the pins on both samples after some 3 weeks of trying to get the ir led and the sensor placed right... it picked up blinking, but not subtle rem movement (IR light is not dangerous for the eyes btw)

anyway... maybe we could start by finding a way of hooking up one of those wristwatches to the computer and figuring out how the data acquisition would happen (how the monitor send the information) and just how reliable rem detection would be (which would involve i guess sleeping with wires attached to your hand for a few nights)... then go on with the research ?

(i'm really interested in this project because i've lost all confidence in ir detection)