Re: Time Cube Central
anonymous
October 4 2003, 04:50:51 UTC
I too own a NovaDreamer. In fact I hardwired mine to my PC. I wrote a program called LISA (Lucidity Induction System for Audio) which used the Nova’s trigger output to trigger playback of a pre-recorded WAV file through a set of sleep-friendly stereo headphones I called “BedPhones.”
The hardest part was designing the hardware to recognize the REM signal from the NovaDreamer. But after talking directly with the guy whom designed the ND eprom it was easy. We just used the serial port to simulate a mouse-click event. From there we just wrote the API to play whatever wav file we requested upon receipt of REM.
The coolest thing I proved was the ability to induce lucid dreaming based on the audio content that was delivered during REM. The most successful trials were the audio experiments that (during REM) asked “What’s the square root of 25?” I was proven wrong because I thought by asking the question “Are you dreaming” during the dream would be enough. No.
Turns out, the audible question “What’s the square root of 25” yielded lucidity. I could ask myself over and over again if I’m dreaming, but as soon as I give myself a simple math problem I get lucid. Never fails.
The hardest part was designing the hardware to recognize the REM signal from the NovaDreamer. But after talking directly with the guy whom designed the ND eprom it was easy. We just used the serial port to simulate a mouse-click event. From there we just wrote the API to play whatever wav file we requested upon receipt of REM.
The coolest thing I proved was the ability to induce lucid dreaming based on the audio content that was delivered during REM. The most successful trials were the audio experiments that (during REM) asked “What’s the square root of 25?” I was proven wrong because I thought by asking the question “Are you dreaming” during the dream would be enough. No.
Turns out, the audible question “What’s the square root of 25” yielded lucidity. I could ask myself over and over again if I’m dreaming, but as soon as I give myself a simple math problem I get lucid. Never fails.
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