Thread: REM DReamer works! Sort Of...

I ordered a REM dreamer about 1.5 weeks ago. It arrived on Friday. I remember reading that they are really slow to ship - but to be fair I was very surprised and pleased to receive mine after only a week and a bit.

I decided to try the device to see if I could get Lucid mid week. I work in downtown chicago Tuesday thru Friday and have to get up very early (4:15am) and dont get to bed until 11:00pm. So although I normally have at least one or two dreams per work night - I dont really have enough time for WBTB. Therefore I decided to see if the REM dreamer could help with this. I normally get lucid at least once or twice at the weekend - but cant seem to crack mid week dreaming with the short time I have.

Spent most of the weekend figuring it out and playing with the Pro software and interface.

Couldnt get it to work at all - then realized I was setting the delay time wrong.

It worked fine last night after setting the time delay manually with the dials.

I must have had the sensitivity setting too high. I set my alarm for 4 hours of sleep - then set the delay, took some supplements and went back to bed. The REM dreamer went off a number of times while I was dozing or just hovering around the wake/sleep boundary.

Then I had a lucid. I was dreaming that I was in my bedroom (which is quite large) and sitting in one of the armchairs in front of our bedroom home cinema equipment in the dark. In the other chair was a black guy I have never met. He was amazed by the REM Dreamer, which I was showing to him. I was explaining the delay function, how the infra-red REM movement detector worked and the cues etc. I suddenly realized that the armchairs were facing the wrong way and I had no idea who the black guy was or what he was doing in my bedroom at night "This is a dream - Im Lucid!". So then I fly up through the roof but wake up almost immediately.

The REM dreamer didnt fire - Im pretty sure because all of the above must have happended within the three minutes delay built into the device to give the dream a chance to solidify.

So LOL - had a lucid last night dreaming about the REM Dreamer - without the REM DReamer going off!

I turned down the senisitivity for tonight and will see what happens.