Night 1
Turned off by itself. Think needs new 9v battery. Took it off at 1:48am.
Until that point, had trouble sleeping because of hyper awareness, desire to fall asleep.
LEDs detached from board, need to reattach.
A Thread: Results of testing my Dream Phone.
The Dream Phone is my device that allows a sleeping subject to communicate from a dream.
This iteration-Dream Phone SD- induces lucid dreams, detects morse code eye messages from the lucid dreamer, and stores them on an SD card.
Night 1
Turned off by itself. Think needs new 9v battery. Took it off at 1:48am.
Until that point, had trouble sleeping because of hyper awareness, desire to fall asleep.
LEDs detached from board, need to reattach.
Night 2
Trigger lights went off while I was awake. So need to lengthen the machine’s WAIT_FOR_SLEEP time.
Also need to test the machine’s location for electrical noise, because it went off when my eyes weren’t moving much. It’s sitting on top of a power strip.
Before bed I fixed the noisy signal by moving the AC power strip far away.
Woke up at 2am to see the device mysteriously turned off again. Have to investigate further.
The dmm showed my dream phone is drawing 100mA, even w/the LED’s off. This would drain a 9v battery in 5hrs.
I checked the 9v battery with a dmm and surely was drained. I double checked the old fashioned way as pictured. #buildinginpublic
Reply with ideas- I’m an electronics newbie, so you might know better than me.
#Arduino #CodeNewbie #helpmecode
Solution/Issue posted here: https://t.co/77EMsIYv3f
#BuildInPublic
Night 4
The good:
1. The new battery bank kept the DP on all night.
2. The DP did not fall on my head in the middle of the night.
The bad:
1. Would not flicker, not even when I moved eyes while awake.
2. Still difficult to sleep bc of pressure to perform.
n5
I woke up too early. The dream phone waits 5 hours before going into “detect rem” mode. But I woke up at around that time and couldn’t fall back asleep.
My sleep was better than last time, but still not good. My “lab anxiety” is reducing.
#BuildInPublic
Night 6
Similar to last time I had trouble sleeping.
Had hypnogogic visions of having to code the dream phone which kept me in this more alert state where I couldn’t proceed into deeper sleep.
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A reoccurring hypnogogic thought I had was “being in” the html elements (IRL there is no html) of the dream phone & having to position the center most element correctly- the center most element being me.
Night 7
Decided to test every night this week to try to acclimate to reduce insomnia.
I slept well but was also extremely tired from the night before. I don’t remember seeing any lights in my dreams and in the morning the dp would not trigger, need to debug.
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I tried this app based on insomnia research called mySleepButton that puts you through a mental exercise to stop mental chatter and help you sleep. Will continue to try it for a while.
Night 8
I realized night 7’s bug was due to a loose wire. Plugged it back in.
Similarly, after I stuck the electrodes to my face last night, I forgot to plug them in!
mySleepButton helped me fall sleep at bedtime and in the middle of the night.
N: 9-16
My goal for the past 1.5 weeks was to reduce the insomnia that the dream phone was causing.
I accomplished this with:
- mySleepButton app
- CBT-I
My sleep is actually been better than ever because of these tools.
Next: Fine tune the LD induction
