After 6 months of having to work to earn a living, I’ve saved a little bit of money, enough to be able to stay as an independent developer for the next 6-10 months. During that time I intend to continue working on the lucid dreaming app and related projects.
Here’s the list of upcoming fixes, features and projects:
Singularity Experience: the lucid dreaming app for iPhone
- Will Receive a 24 hour graph, similar to5 in 1 journal app for iPhone. This would help tracking times of going to bed, as well as times of awakening (to more accurately predict when most of your REM episodes are happening).
- Will allow tracking of additional events over the course of the day: caffeine, supplements (vitaminB6), alcohol, and food. I have observed that such things have impact on sleep, and having a long history of tracking such events may help quantify their impact.
- The algorithm of REM detection will be improved based on 6 months of observations.
- I will fix various bugs that I’ve observed with the app.
- I will add Dropbox sync to backup dreams logged in the app. Once I’ve uninstalled the app by accident and lost 3 months of valuable data. With dropbox sync, it is possible to store dream files on the cloud and restore them to any copy of the lucid dreaming app!
- Potentially a smart alarm feature. It is already in the app, but has not been tested extensively or made publicly available.
Additional apps I have planned:
Music Therapy App for iPhone.
The impact of audio on the person’s awareness and brain is much more complicated than I’ve anticipated. Music therapy app combines parts of the lucid dreaming app to help the person undergoing music therapy to keep track of their sessions, while the app monitors their activity pattern over the course of the session. From my observation of sleep patterns over the course of the last year, it appears to me that the state of the brain and the gross motor activity pattern are related.
I expect that by publishing the free music therapy app, it would act as a conversation starter between myself and any musician/music therapist that I may meet. Maybe someone out there already has perfected the art of influencing the brain with audio?
Non-lucid dreaming sleep tracker.
Singularity Experience works great as a sleep tracker, it calculates sleep onset latency, shows a graph of sleep cycles and allows events over the course of the night to be recorded. I’ve observed over 8 months of data logged with the app, and think it would be a valuable tool for tracking various forms of sleep disorders.
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Hello,
I love’d the android app, but to be honest i am very (almost angry) that you choose for iphone only development.
Me and lots of others are waiting and waiting to see something from you updated on the android market, but i think we will never see that -_-.
Well, it took about 3 months of my life to build the Android version, and while it is nice, it is a lot more buggier. Maybe one of these days I will have enough energy to pick up android development again, but right now I do not :/
In regards to music therapy and dreaming have you tried binaural beat therapy or considered trying it with your app? there’s a great binaural beats app on the android market and it would be interesting to see that integration with your app
I”ve tried binaural beats a while back, but it did not do much for me. One of the things that I’m looking for is an ability to quantify the experience, and binaural beats completely lacks any kind of validation criteria: ex: I played binaural beats and got X result.
Hi Alexander, great to hear you are back developping this!
Any chance you will be doing anything with the Android version?
What I woud really like is a Zeo alarm that is configurable (own mp3) and can be set to start just after the onset of a REM episode. Your app doesn’t seem to do that correctly at the moment.
I’ve not used it for a while, but I will try again to remind myself what it does do.
Regards, Andy.
Great to have you back Alexander!!!!
Will you be able to test it on the Ipad? Right now i am testing it (3 days now) and I have encountered this problems:
1- Even if I want to choose what do I want to see up front in the app (not help, beginner… but other ones like history and graphs), if I restart the application it comes back to the previous setup.
2- I can’t say anything for sure as I am still testing it, but these two last nights the Actigraph (or whatever its called) didn’t work well. The first night worked, the second night didn’t work at all, and the third worked half the night. I am not sure if I touched something while I was sleeping though.
3- Yesterday I was writing a long dream in the dream journal and the application stopped working, and I lost everything i had written.
I will continue to use it and I will give you more feedback. I hope that you use it to make it better.
Thank you for this app!
Dear Alexander
Could you get in touch with your contact details? I’d love to speak to you as research for a BBC Radio Four programme I work on called Saturday Live. My email is liz dot pearson at bbc dot co dot uk.
Thanks!
Lizz