Thread: Singularity Experience, a professional iPhone app for Lucid Dreamers

Originally Posted by Ev

Version 1.1 has been released!

Manual mode reminder
A lot of detailed sleep data
Ability to dim screen
Wristband mode
Fixed bugs with reminders not playing!
More info:
Singularity Experience V1.1 - Lucid Dreaming App » Lucid Dreaming App


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Btw, if you do not get one of these promo codes, I'm trying a 2 day sale at 60% off! The sale ends on January 7th, get your app for 2$ while you still can.
App Store - Singularity Experience : The Lucid Dreaming App

I would appreciate if you rate the app on the app store!

Woo! Downloading right now and i'm going to try wristband mode tonight.

Here's the update video:
Singularity experience update 1.1 part1 - YouTube

To dim the screen tap the sun button in the middle when the start console is not visible.

What happens when you click the sound and vibration icons in the middle of the clock? They turn around a bit and back, but does it change any settings?

To answer your earlier question, epoch 57: the app autosaves data every 5 minutes. I will probably take that message out, right now it is there for debug purposes.

There are no vibration customization in place right now. It is limited to 2 vibrations at 3 seconds apart.
The audio button in the middle should bring up an audio picker. If it doesn't , you can still select custom audio by opening the reminder screen > info > the reload button in top left.

Just bought your app. It looks amazing Ev, keep up the good work!

Using the Zeo Sleep wireless headband, I was able to compare the Singularity Experience with the Zeo sleep Manager app, to understand if the app delivers reminders in REM.

Short answer is : YES, Singularity Experience DOES play reminders in REM!


Here's a full length presentation of results
http://luciddreamingapp.com/appdata/...%20Manager.pdf

Here's a more detailed description of the findings
Breakthrough: Singularity Experience Data compared with EEG data - Lucid Dreaming App » Lucid Dreaming App

Here's Zeo sleep data


Here's the singularity sleep data


Comparison of sleep graphs (both X and bars are 5 minute wide)


Here's when the app delivered reminders superimposed upon Zeo's REM graph. What was really cool is that *I hypothesize* Zeo picked up my brain's response to the reminder played in 2/4 dreams! Unfortunately they were just too long and I do not remember earlier episodes to comment upon the effect of the reminder.

Another interesting discovery is that the dream with a degree of dream control and meta-thinking about the dream was rated as "Awake" by Zeo. this dream was reported at 7:49 and is preceeded by 15 minutes of "Awake", while I was dreaming.

I have tried using DEILD beginner mode for the last few nights but according to the graphs, the app closes/crashes an hour in.

I'm downloading the retail version of the app from the app store and will test this today

I am jailbroken, but I made sure that I had at least over 100mb of memory free before i started the app. I still crashed this morning.

Well, I can't thank you enough Ev. Not sure if it was the app, or just sheer coincidence, but I managed to have my first lucid in a while using your application this morning, here's the dream.

Originally Posted by frenchblablabla

Well, I can't thank you enough Ev. Not sure if it was the app, or just sheer coincidence, but I managed to have my first lucid in a while using your application this morning, here's the dream.

That's really good news! "WILD without even trying" sounds fairly close to dream re-entry, which is also a flavor of WILD. As for your dream's content, that's a lot of stuff you had there. How long do you think you dream lasted?


PS. I've tested the retail version of the app, it is stable on both my (not jailbroken) iPod touch 4g and iPhone4. The iPhone has been through rigorous testing, I've carried it in my pocket with the app running for over 4.5 hours, I've been multi-tasking, listening to music. The app's logic fired several times, which was really awesome and helped me practice listening to the reminder while being out and about. One reminder played while I was shopping, and I stopped, did a few reality checks and became aware. Another one played as I was stopped at a traffic light. I did multiple RCs on the car's digital clock. Those reminders were totally random and unexpected, which was really cool. I'm pleased with the quality of my audio selection for the reminder. It faded in really nice, did not startle me, but instead lead me to expect the second part of the reminder.

I will publish a youtube video with a brief description of the reminder that I'm currently using.

PPS. the app did crash on iPod after 7 hours of testing. I identified the possible cause and have put in a bugfix that will prevent the issue from appearing again.

Not longer than 15 minutes. I had recorded when I had awoken before the dream, and when the dream had ended.

Still can't write a review/rate it because it didn't work at all last night.
Not sure whether it was my fault. I may have somehow accidentally pressed something. Because when I woke up at around 7:50 the last alarm reminder was highlighted and protruding from the clock. Not sure what that means, but it didn't play reminders all night.
I clicked on it and it went greyed out again like the rest of them and according to the log it played two more reminders after that. But I didn't hear them.

Hey,
Check out this screenshot to understand when reminders have been played. Currently they are played at the very start of REM phase (light green). It's difficult to recall dreams at that stage. if you set a custom reminder delay to let's say 5-10 minutes, you will be more likely to hear the reminder.

I feel like mine have been playing more toward the end of REM.

I had another question about the custom reminders. With the green circles around the clock, is that when the app starts searching for REM signs? Or does it search for them all the time?
Coz if it's searching all the time, how does it choose which custom reminder to use if the REM is not on one of those green circles?

I'd like to give you a preview of the Singularity Experience Version 1.2

I'm working with better ways to visualize a lot of dream data, here's what I have so far:

1) Better graphs:

We can dream during any time of the night, but vivid, prolonged dreams are mostly reported in REM. The graph shows sleep cycles over the course of the night and is color-coded with the probability of dreaming. Bright green is REM, Dark green is deep sleep (almost no dreaming), green is light sleep stages that precede REM. Gray is light sleep that I cannot score effectively.

Blue is when the reminder logic is active. If the blue segment appears on your graph, an it precedes REM, your app's logic will work and will play reminders before REM.







Now the markers on the history graph bring you over to the dream journal entry, so you can quickly see not only during which sleep stage you've recalled a dream, but also get a feeling for what kind of dream it was by reading the dream journal entry.

Sleep History would also benefit from the multi-colored markers, letting you see the pattern of your dream recall. By analyzing my sleep history that way and looking at the results of the Zeo sleep tracker, I was able to say that when I wake up from my dreams, there's still some "REM juice" left, and I can try to WILD or just re-enter the dream right away.

Before I thought that I woke up at the very end of the dream, but apparently I wake up at the start of REM!

Originally Posted by Ev

Before I thought that I woke up at the very end of the dream, but apparently I wake up at the start of REM!

Haha! Hm ok, well that gives me some hope too
Now I feel kind of stupid for not trying hard enough to WILD after the app woke me up lol

In the screenshot above, the green markers are when I've reported dreams. This is intended to help you see which reminder might've been integrated into a dream. If you have a red light reminder with powerful music, as you tap on the dream from the same sleep cycle, you will be able to tell if the reminder was integrated into the dream's content.

As you align the Singularity screen black marker with your bedtime, each reminder on the singularity experience would align with the end of a sleep cycle. So for the image above, my first reminder would be played for the first dream, 2nd reminder for the 2nd dream, etc.

Singularity Experience: The lucid dreaming app version 1.2 has been submitted to the App store! I estimate it will be released within a week. This version introduces new data visualization tools and fixes some app crashes. This frees me to explore Zeo and Android version, hopefully getting the EEG to work with the app.

Some good news Ev!
Just got my first Lucid in a long time using the app this morning!!!!

Thanks so much man!

P.S I wrote a review and 5 starred yesterday.

Originally Posted by tommo

Some good news Ev!
Just got my first Lucid in a long time using the app this morning!!!!

Thanks so much man!

P.S I wrote a review and 5 starred yesterday.

That's great news, thank you!

Check out my super secret reality check reminder post, it tells you how you can use your phone's text tone as a reality check cue: The secret lucid dreaming reminder experiment revealed - Lucid Dreaming App » Lucid Dreaming App This is the super secret technique that I did not want to reveal before the app has been released. I've been conditioning myself to perform reality checks with this technique for over 3 weeks, and now, even after I stopped, I still recognize the text message tone and become more aware than I normally am. Tonight is the first night of actively testing if it works for lucid dream induction!

The latest version of Lucid Scribe can now import from Singularity Experience: check it!

Hm, I cannot use my iPod for messages lol
I guess I could record it on to my mobile phone, but I rarely get txts or calls anyway.
But it does sound like a pretty solid method for becoming aware.
Hopefully a lot of people test it out.

I'll be honest with you, I just can't get this app to work for me at all. I'm not using a wristband, just the mattress mode. I never wake up to any sounds throughout the night. Is there any way someone can tell me how I could improve my chances with this app?

Originally Posted by Rostum

I'll be honest with you, I just can't get this app to work for me at all. I'm not using a wristband, just the mattress mode. I never wake up to any sounds throughout the night. Is there any way someone can tell me how I could improve my chances with this app?

Currently the app plays the reminder at the very start of REM. You can delay the reminder to be played a bit later. I cannot recall the early REM dream episodes during normal dreams.

You can analyze your sleep data with this worksheet:

http://luciddreamingapp.com/appdata/...worksheet.xlsx

Here's more information on how to email yourself the data for data analysis:

My Data - Lucid Dreaming App » Lucid Dreaming App


The first thing that you need to confirm is whether or not the app did play a reminder. This would be shown as a large spike on the graphs. If there are no spikes, the app did not find a time to play a reminder. Then you can take a look at your sleep depth graph. Your REM would be happening almost at the exact middle between the sleep depth peaks. Using this information, you can set a custom delay for the reminder to be played closer to your REM awakening.