Well I'm going to make a lucid dreaming application

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I’m a bored programmer who needs another project to work on. I’ve decided to have a crack at creating a lucid dream application. Eventually I’ll make it some kind of AIO thing (e.g. digital dream journal and stuff) but right now I’m going to focus on detecting REM with a web cam. I realise that’ll be hard, and if you roll over or something then you’re doomed, but hey I think it should be fine. I’ve worked with motion detection in video before but never quite like this so it might take a while.

Now why am I creating this thread when I haven’t started it yet? Well I’m short on ideas for what to add. I’m going to add random suggestions like “you will remember your dreams” and such, and a notification when you’re in REM (as mentioned above), and maybe some kind of digital dream journal. Beyond that, I don’t really know.

So yeah, post some ideas and when I start developing it I might include them. Of course, if this ever turns into an actual program and not just generic code which it will if I have enough success with it, then I’ll release it for free.

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I don’t actually imagine how you would make a WebCam detect REM sleep. Obviously, it should be trough eye movements, but are they clear enough to be detected by it? If you would succeed in doing that, it would be nice.
When it would detect REM sleep, it should somehow induce lucid dreams. You have got a few options on how to do that. It could be sound, light flashes, electric impulses etc. I would actually prefer light, as sounds tend to wake you up and it’s not completely guaranteed that you will hear them in your dream. A light flashing into your eye would certainly make flashing stuff appear in your dream, so you could use them as DS and do a RC. That would be something like NovaDreamer, but homemade :smile:. Maybe someone else has other suggestions.

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I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but BenDrummin is currently looking for programmers to help him revamp his already successful applications. I’m sure he’s like the help :content:

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