Real dreams is an app that will help anyone who is interested in lucid dreaming to attain those goals. This goes into the role of speculative design with a skew on how technology can actively interface with a person's subconscious and then give back control to the user.

1. Feedback Loops: Lucid Dreaming
Major Studio: Interface

2. Lucid Dreaming
A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that
they are dreaming.

3. Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D.
Stanford University
The Lucidity Institute

4. Brainwaves
Awake - Beta waves
NREM - Alpha waves
REM - Theta waves
(Lucid dreams occur here)
Delta - Delta waves

5. Why lucid dream?

7. So how do we get there?
Dream Recall
Reality Testing
Inducing Lucidity

8. Past Interfaces
Sleep Cycle - app to monitor sleep
Nova Dreamer - sleep mask to induce lucidity
Lucid Dreaming - The Unexplainable Store - app to induce lucidity

9. The Results

11. Prototype:
Real Dreams
Mobile Application

12. Step 1:
Creating a Profile

13. Step 2: One Week Evaluation
Establishing a dream library

14. Week 1
Bedtime Morning Daytime
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tag tag tag
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sleep patterns
Alarm
Dream Recall Reality Testing
The Black Box

15. The Black Box
Keeping track of your waking and dreaming life

16. Understanding Your Dreams
The program will learn to
looks for common nouns
in your dream recalls.
Word cloud made from current dream recalls, courtesy of wordle.net.

17. Understanding Your Dreams
Then repeat this process with the
tags from reality checks.

18. Understanding Your Dreams
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Dream Awake

19. Keeps you informed√×

20. Step 3: Inducing Lucidity
Setting off triggers and getting feedback

21. Building a Library
Dream Recalls, Reality Testing and Dream Report

22. Dream Recall:
Immediately upon waking to the preset
alarm the user records the dream as
concisely as possible. This will take
several times to improve as dream
recall develops.

23. Reality Testing:
Take a picture and tag it. Categories and tags will then be compared to
your Dream Recalls and find patterns.

24. Dream Report:
Getting feedback on your dreams and
lucidity before and after you sleep.

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tag tag tag
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tag tag tag
The Loop
Bedtime Morning Daytime
sleep patterns
lucid trigger
Alarm
Dream Recall
Lucidity Report
Reality Testing
The accelerometer on
the iPhone will determine
when you are in REM sleep
and activate a sound trigger.
The Dream Report
will remind you of dream
elements to pay expect
In the morning Dream Recall
you will report wether or not
you achieved lucidity
Reality Testing during waking hours will
continue to build the database of things you
come into contact with.
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tag tag tag
Black Box with new data
Black Box
Dream Report

26. Step 4: Keeping Lucidity
Setting goals

27. Sweet dreams