Over the last few years, [Michael] has been working on the Lucid Scribe project, an online sleep research database to document lucid dreams. This project uses a combination of hardware and software to record rapid eye movements while sleeping. Not only is [Michael] able to get his computer to play music when he starts dreaming (thus allowing him to recognize he’s in a dream), he can also communicate from within a dream by blinking his eyes in Morse code.
According to the Lucid Scribe blog, [Michael] and other researchers in the Lucid Scribe project have developed motion-sensing hardware capable of detecting heartbeats. This equipment is also sensitive enough to detect the Rapid Eye Movements associated with dreaming. This hardware feeds data into the Lucid Scribe app and detects when [Michael] is dreaming. Apparently, [Michael] has been practicing his lucid dreaming; he’s actually been able to move his eyes while dreaming to blink our…
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I have a question for you, do you think a simple wire could be sensitive enough to pick up signals from eye movements? The wires would be in a head band on the forehead. If you don’t think that would work, do you have any cheap suggestions.
Yes, I have often thought about this. Just like a microphone, only on a larger scale.
The cheapest method I have working so far is Halovision… do you have a webcam?
Well honestly I wanted to just detect the electrical signal from the eye movements, because I want to sleep with this on, and i have a tendency to move around while I’m asleep.