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Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

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smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

You need to be on THC break to resume sleeping. What you suspect is true as THC disrupts the sleep cycle and you don't get much of REM sleep while on it.

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Post by Spivak »

kranner wrote: post #50
smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

I'm at the opposite end. I dream every time I sleep, even if it's a 10-minute nap. Could be undiagnosed narcolepsy in my case, but it doesn't bother me enough to get it checked out. When you say "nothing happens", I'm not even sure what you mean. Do you just fall asleep and wake up hours later with no sense of time passing?

I can answer this one, you are aware of time passing and if you've trained yourself with an alarm you can still wake on cue. But there's just nothing in between, higher order thought just turns off.

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Post by echelon »

carstenhag wrote: post #38
ortichic wrote: post #29

App the article is about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neurelectr... Doesn't install on recent android versions though

Another argument for every public funded thing should be open source.

100%, publicly funded research should result in open code and papers, not private code and private journal publication.

It looks like this was well-funded research:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921678&His...

The first grant was for $616,000 (over several years), and there are at least three more grants attached to this research.

Academia is sometimes a bit ridiculous. This feels like something an undergrad student could do in their spare time for a capstone or thesis project with no material cost.

YC would do a better job of this.

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Post by yndoendo »

I have been pretty consistent with creating lucid dreams in the morning by using my TV. 1) Start playing a movie 2) Set the audio just below being able to understand dialogue and can hear the conversations 3) Wear a blindfold to prevent energizing ocular receptors through closed eye lids.

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Post by garaetjjte »

yeetusus wrote: post #18

I've wanted to make my own 'app' for a wearable device that i can trigger to vibrate for X seconds at Y intensity every Z minutes... to find the sweet spot for lucid dreaming. I only dig a quick look but didn't see any easy mode APIs for the wearables, for the vibrating feature

Garmin seems to have vibration in Connect IQ api https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Atte...

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smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

I started CBD that had THC in it a couple years back. At first I noticed a great ability to get to sleep. It was fantastic. I've often had trouble getting to sleep (going back...decades). But I did notice over time I had far fewer dreams. If I did have any, I couldn't remember. It wasn't an immediate loss, but I noticed.

I stopped THC in January this year, and ... dreaming came back. Been dreaming for several months at least. Probably back as early as Feb/March, but I can't recall for certain.

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Post by schneems »

canjobear wrote: post #55

Once we can reliably induce lucid dreaming, and maybe with the help of some neural prosthesis to capture the output, we can recover all that lost productivity time by having people do immersive vr spreadsheet work in their dreams.

*Severance* has entered the chat.
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