Lucid Dreaming App is 1 Year old!
Today celebrates one year since I published the Android lucid dreaming app. The iPhone App is slightly less mature – at 6 months. By now the app should’ve been thoroughly tested and used by a number of people. What are your thoughts? Does the app work for you? I keep getting feature requests, bug reports, but not much feedback on whether the app works or not. And so I would ask you, the users, did you ever had a lucid dream because of the lucid dreaming app? What reminders did you use?
It is very likely that at the end of August I will have about 6 months to dedicate to my personal projects before going back to work. I want to spend this time wisely. If the lucid dreaming app does not work for lucid dream induction, I’d much better rework it as a sleep study tool to keep looking for the induction method that works.
Current status of the app:
- Stage 1 is complete - the app can detect dreaming
- Stage 2 – understand what’s happening during dreaming – in progress
- Stage 3 – understand how dreaming can be influenced
Understanding when the person is dreaming is not a simple task! I’m very glad that the app works. However, I don’t know how to interpret the results. Over the past 6 months I’ve looked into chronobiology, circadian rhythms, spoke to sound therapist, a sound healer, and read books on mood disorders. What I found is that the human brain is very weird, there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye.
My initial assumptions about what sleep is and how it can be manipulated were wrong. Consider the example below:
This is the human biological clock, it is exhibited by every cell within a human body. It’s not a simple timer that one might think of, but a complex interaction of genes. It is impossible to change this clock instantly, and the results of clock manipulation are very likely to manifest themselves with a 2-3 day delay. How can one experiment with such clock while leading an ordinary life?
Here’s an article that describes the clock:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138846/?tool=pubmed
The complexity of this task makes me wander – should I keep trying to build an app that tries to influence such a complex machinery? A LOT of people complain about the complexity of the interface of the current Singularity Experience app, and it seems that the actual machinery involved in the sleep/wake cycle is even more complex. Did the current app help you understand your sleep at least a little bit?
Thank you for your feedback and continuous support!
-Alex
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Congrats on the 1 year anniversary Alexander!
I’ve only been using Lucid Dreaming App for a few weeks, so I’m still trying to get to grips with it, but don’t beat yourself up about people complaining about the complexity of the interface – it’s not that complex once you get used to it!
What is complex is the app that’s being influenced!
I’ve had a couple of very clear dreams, one of which I almost got lucid – thought to myself “that’s strange” but couldn’t quite do a reality check or get lucid.
One thing I am just looking at is to have a binaural beat as the notify.
Please get back to developping on the Android platform if you can
Regards, Andy.
Congratulations,
Your lucid dreaming app was one of the first I installed on my first android phone. Since that time I recorded lots of nights. From regular nights, with going to bed quite early to nights with going to bed when others usually wake up; there were nights with just a few hours of sleep and other night where I racked up 12 hours.
Your app helped me understanding my sleep a lot. I use my recorded sleep patterns as a reference for the optimal time to get up.
It also helps matching entries in my dream diary with the time (type of dream vs. minutes of sleep).
A feature I’m missing is some kind of filter: choosing recorded sleep depending on minutes of sleep, time gone to bed, woken up, etc.
Hi Alex,
By chance I’ve stumbled across your website. I’ve been quite interested with Lucid Dreaming for a number of years now. Was extremely into it a few years back – recording my dreams in a journal until I had perfect recall. I stopped for a long time and just got back into it. I was amazed to see the tech advances on Android and iOS. I downloaded the lucid dreaming app onto my Asus Tranformer Tablet and have used it for the last two days. This app is absolutely wonderful. I do not have an iphone so I cannot test singularity but it would be great if this app has the additional DEILD functions singularity has. I would love to test it and pay for it!
I actually had a lucid experience on the 2nd night! Most likely due to all the materials I’ve been reading up. However my dream recall abilities are now almost nonexistant and I couldn’t remember much when i woke up =P
I would like to purchase the zeo headband and test that with the app (will purchase through your link if they ship to Australia) Knowing that more effort will be put into the Android app is wonderful. Thanks and keep up the good work. I’ll be using this app every night now!
Thanks for the kind words!
Similar to this App I also like Morpheus Dreams which really is the most comprehensive Dream journal and interpretation App on the iTunes.
The App allows you to easily record dreams, sync across devices, interpret as you write, and identify favorite or recurring themes and iamges. The dictionary has been composed de novo through a careful curation and recompilation of the most valuable dream interpretations published throughout history: from Artemidorus, to Freud, Jung, Hasse and selected others. Morpheus is the first and only App to offer a comprehensive and cohesive set of interpretations based on the foundational work in the field, not a simple rehash.
Finally, you’re never locked in as you’re always able to export your whole journal in text format and move on which makes the App worth investing the time. The $1.99 price is incredibly cheap for such a useful app to anyone interested in dreams, whether you use the journal or the dictionary alone
http://itunes.apple.com/app/morpheus-dreams-advanced-dream/id508437774?mt=8
I’m approving your post, but in no way endorsing that app.
Thank you very much for the app, I’m using android version for 4 month by now,
1) App is extremely useful for sleep phase/cycle detection. Every day in the morning I just save the data into my excel, where by now I can see how long my phases are, in which of them I tend to remember most of the dreams occured during the night. It helps me to know my dream specifics and predict when and what to expect.
2) Personally I think that it might not be just that useful for dream -inducing.
For example I just train my brain to be critical about dream/not dream state during the day and it helpes me to get lucid sometimes, then I also trained myself to wake up after almost each REM to recall my dreams (not every night but very often by now). I can try WILD after that. Moreover , I set my alarm after 5-6 hours of sleep so that to use MILD or WILD after hour awake in the morning every day (this gives me LD’s with 50% probability every day for now)
So, just as in LaBerge book “you can use crutches to walk, but you will not run with them”. It needs work, not tricks I think.
Please continue developing the app, it’s really helpful. Thank you for ur job again!
And make interface more friendly)))
Hey Alexander!
You are awesome!
This is a wonderful app, I’m thrilled about the high level of adjustments that can be made – and I love the graphs!
A while ago I used to practice lucid dreaming, but I kind of let it slip and haven’t thought about it for years. Your app is so very thourough and well thought through (difficult sentence:-)), I’m so excited about this again – Thanks!
Regards,
Martine
Hi Alexander!
Great work, I really appreciate the effort and dedication you invested in this project,the result it sures reflect it!
I admit I haven’t still used the app thoroughly, but I was wondering when the display goes dark, it doesn’t turn off completely (because of the need of light stimuli no doubt) and in a long time of usage wouldn’t it end up ruining the screen?
Thanks, and keep up your excellent work!
I’ve been using the app for 9 months every single night, and do not think it ruined my screen. I doubt many people would be that hardcore about using hte app
I inquired at a local repair shop, and it costs 75$ in my area to replace an iphone screen, if worst comes