The basic idea: having an electronic device lightly wake you up every few minutes whenever you're in REM sleep.

This has been done before, but most of the time it's had to rely on timers (which are imprecise/unreliable) or headbands (which are uncomfortable to wear every night), as well as tending to be less flexible to customization. This new technique relies on actual detection of REM sleep using the S+ sleep tracker, which is a relatively cheap ($25-$50) external sleep monitor that sits next to your bed, using something akin to sonar to track your breathing and infer your sleep state. You might expect it wouldn't work that well, but I've been using it for over a month, and, at least for rem-sleep, it appears to do a great job. (one point supporting this is the fact that it's almost always been correct on whether I awoke from rem-sleep or not -- as verified by direct dream awakenings, drowsiness levels, and memory)

You can find screenshots of my results so far from the S+ device here: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...ique-beta.html

I haven't uploaded the latest version of the app to the Play Store yet, so it's not yet available for others to try, but I'll do so once I've worked out the details more and finished developing the UI. So for now, this thread is meant to collect my results from the technique, as well as any improvements I notice along the way, to be collected together later in a second thread for general usage.

Thus, my evaluation begins! (see the thread above to compare my success with this technique, as I try it, to that of its predecessor)