2013-07-02 – (first post)no REM only dream
As always wake up around 3:30 in the morning, start the computer and program, put on head electrodes and headphones. Program had never caught REM’s probably too shallow sleep. Download entry as Lucid...
View Article2013-10-22 – Naturally Lucid
I had a rare natural lucid dream triggered by events inspired by the main theme of Bob DeNatale’s new film about lucid dreaming, The Art of Dreaming. I maintained lucidity for a good minute of human...
View Article2013-11-05 – EEG Waves
I recorded with my halograph FM and EEG in parallel. The electrodes didn’t have the best contact, but they still picked up some interesting readings. I have been embedding the passive electrode in the...
View Article2013-11-22 – Knock, Knock
The four printouts that follow were recorded during the same night with the halograph FM and EEG. The first minute, 0143, shows a pattern that I have seen many times: a sequence of heartbeats where...
View Article2013-11-25 – Stairway to Heaven
After explaining the REM-detection algorithm to a friend over the weekend, I was inspired to shed some light on it by plotting each step in the loop on the graph so that it becomes easier to...
View Article2014-01-08 – Free Fall 2
I caught that feeling you get when you are startled awake by an intense falling sensation on file again, this time with EEG. At 0052 I was still awake and making sure the audio tracks were triggering,...
View Article2014-09-04 – Castles in the Sky
I dusted off my LightStone and set out on a new quest to detect the dream state from the heartbeat. The heart rate variability (HRV) channel sometimes creates castle-like patterns during deep sleep...
View Article2015-01-02 – Kapalabhati
An exercise I picked up while practicing Bujinkan. The first printout shows four deep breaths a minute: The second printout shows the rapid “shining” breaths, 60 inhalations and exhalations in one...
View Article2015-01-07 – EEG Stairs
Caught a nice flight of stairs from the OpenEEG channel in the minute below. The signal quality tapered off here and there after that, which can only be seen in the raw EEG data… will add a signal...
View Article2015-01-16 – OpenEEG – Better Signal
I recorded another session with the OpenEEG… this time with a proper signal as evidenced by the OpenEEG RAW channel. The audio plug-out triggered from the OpenEEG channel at 0118: And then from the...
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