Anyone thought of detecting REM via electrical signals?

Quest for Lucidity
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Any thought of detecting REM via electrical signals from the brain?

here is info in wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysomnography

They can be picked up from the frontal lobes which are located on the forehead.

A similar device is on the market called the my zeo personal sleep coach. zeo say their patented softwave technology as they call it is based on polysomnography which they say is the best way of detecting sleep cycles and is used in all the sleep research labs around the world. Their product is expensive between $200-$300 depending on model. It doesn’t have anything to do with LD but is for people who want a better nights sleep. It has this alarm clock looking device that sits on your bedside table. You wear this wireless headband that has some sponge pads that sit on your frontal lobes, no gel is required. It then picks up via polysomnography data and communicates with the alarm clock which tracks all your sleep cycles including rem state. It record the nights data onto an SD card which you can then put in your PC and view exactly at what times you went into rem, for how long etc. What’s fascinating is you could get a very accurate reading and then use it with either those non rem based LD sleep masks or with the rem based ones like the dreammaker and remdreamer for a more accurate cueing of lucid periods in your nightly sleep. Some people have emailed zeo about making a LD sleep add on for the zeo device. Their isn’t any plans for this and they probably don’t care. Which is a shame. They posted some info on their blog from emails they got from people but it only mentioned like one line about LD.

Now polysomnography isn’t galvanic skin response which I know some people on here have tried making such a sleep device with. I wonder if we could detect rem with our own wireless device much like the zeo, what do you think guys?

EDIT: Sweet!!! I just found what I am talking about in this thread: arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB … 1267726728 very clever tech. I wonder what the progress is now on this, anyone know anything more about this or other work being done in this area, this is a lot like the my zeo, awesome!!!

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there is the OCZ NIA, which basically detects eye movement using electrodes for use in PC gaming, and that could be used…

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Thanks for the reply, I have looked into the OCZ NIA and made a long post about it on another thread on here. I think that device that was being made using an arduino to actually be a lot better but unfortunately it was never finished. Check the link in my first post.

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Sound like you want an eeg or something.
Like this:
neurosky.com/