Well perhaps I got tired of the electronics, since I suck at it... but really I'm just snowed under at work. So the little bit of leisure time I get, I simply can't motivate myself to do MORE technical work

Anyway, the work stress is beginning to die down. Give me a week or so, and I should be able to continue with this. I guess I'll have to irritate the hardware nerd at work

About the optical mouse idea, I know about it. The problems are as follows:
1) The light is DAMN bright, and will probably wake you up
2) The mouse light + sensor would have to be right up against your eyeball, it seems. And it'd have to be a good (sensitive) mouse. This would be uncomfortable, and seems to hinder my eyeball from moving.
3) I was trying to keep away from using a face mask. I'm not a fan of that idea.
4) I wanted to be able to get some statistical data to record your sleeping state through the night. I can't do that with an optical mouse trick.