Real dreams is an app that will help anyone who is interested in lucid dreaming to attain those goals. This goes into the role of speculative design with a skew on how technology can actively interface with a person's subconscious and then give back control to the user.
7. So how do we get there?
Dream Recall
Reality Testing
Inducing Lucidity
8. Past Interfaces
Sleep Cycle - app to monitor sleep
Nova Dreamer - sleep mask to induce lucidity
Lucid Dreaming - The Unexplainable Store - app to induce lucidity
16. Understanding Your Dreams
The program will learn to
looks for common nouns
in your dream recalls.
Word cloud made from current dream recalls, courtesy of wordle.net.
22. Dream Recall:
Immediately upon waking to the preset
alarm the user records the dream as
concisely as possible. This will take
several times to improve as dream
recall develops.
23. Reality Testing:
Take a picture and tag it. Categories and tags will then be compared to
your Dream Recalls and find patterns.
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The Loop
Bedtime Morning Daytime
sleep patterns
lucid trigger
Alarm
Dream Recall
Lucidity Report
Reality Testing
The accelerometer on
the iPhone will determine
when you are in REM sleep
and activate a sound trigger.
The Dream Report
will remind you of dream
elements to pay expect
In the morning Dream Recall
you will report wether or not
you achieved lucidity
Reality Testing during waking hours will
continue to build the database of things you
come into contact with.
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Black Box with new data
Black Box
Dream Report