Slashdot Mirror
New App Aims To Track Your Dreams
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Liz Stinson reports that 'Shadow,' a new app recently launched on Kickstarter, will make recording and remembering your dreams simple. 'There's a lot going on in the subconscious mind that if you can start to pull out little details, you start to get a wider picture of yourself,' says designer Hunter Lee Soik. Most of the time, alarm clocks abruptly blast through your consciousness, ripping you from the depths of sleep. In contrast, Shadow's alarm system gradually transitions users through their hypnopompic state, that not-quite-asleep, not-quite-awake phase, which has be proven to help you better remember your dreams. Once you deactivate the alarm, users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice or typing text. The app then transcribes your dreams and stores them in an ever-growing digital dream journal that keeps track of your long-term dream and sleep patterns and helps you visualize patterns and make connections between your sleep patterns, daily life, and what you dream about. 'We're socialized to think of sleep as inactivity, but certain parts of our brain — the parts that handle things like problem solving and memory — are most active while we're sleeping,' says Soik. 'That's a huge amount of potential data we're forgetting each morning.'" I prefer a notebook on the nightstand, myself.
data?
Already done. You're welcome.
I say, if the NSA wants half coherent snatches of the population's dreams, let'em have it.
This is definitely a Do Not Want for me. Think about it. Look at everyone here. How much of their subconcious do you really want to know about? Doritos lazily floating in a sea of Dvorak keyboard caps? Belly button lint black holes?
Not a fucking chance, guys.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
There is one simple, proven, way to help remember your dreams.
When you wake up, don't move. Recall your dreams then write them down.
With practice you can easily recall 3 or more dreams.
I have this on my Mac:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070602172914/http://www.dream-recorder.com/
That was from 2007. There were newer versions:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080704183437/http://www.dream-recorder.com/
Never tested it seriously. And I remember reading about an iOS-App in the last year or so ...
"The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough."
-1998 Enemy of the State
Enough is never enough with these kind of people.
https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/
Lucid Dreaming
Thank me later.
Let's hope this leads to another generation of Mary Shelleys and HP Lovecrafts.
Well, re-staging one's dreams and nightmares is a very powerful way to manipulate them.
Is EVERYTHING on slashdot about the frikkin NSA? Here's a picture of a kitten : OMG its an NSA spy!!!
I say, if the NSA wants half coherent snatches of the population's dreams, let'em have it.
I gather you haven't seen what teens text to each other.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Apparently, the porn is happening while asleep....
There are only about a million dream tracking apps in the Google Play store already.
Of what use is recording your dreams?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
At least it would have been if my alarm clock didn't take so long gradually transitioning me through my hypnopompic state.
If anyone wants to go into my dreams, be my guest. But expect to come out like those vegetables in Dreamscape.
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
My 7 year old phone can do that.
More and more I see these projects appearing on Kickstarter that, imo, don't warrant any startup money:
Seriously, asking money for making a clock/alarm application/note-taking application?
There is a multitude of tutorials around on how to create exactly these kinds of apps for both iOS as well as Android. Even someone with limited knowledge of programming should be able to build what this guy is trying to 'sell'...
So why the Kickstarter? Easy monies... riiiight.
Have any of the people that push dream diaries, including this modern version, thought that perhaps there's an evolutionary reason that we don't often remember our dreams, and most of us, rarely in great detail?
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
So.... will it have an option to share your dream location with Google?
> "users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice"
*BZZZZZT* PLEASE STATE DREAM FOR RECORDING
I dreamt I was hitting on Victoria Justice, and she was gonna take her pants off, but then she ran over to Debby Ryan and that Zhendaya chick and they pointed at my crotch and started laughing then they started making put but pulled down a wicker shade so I couldn't see, so I was gonna try to peek through it but my mom was there so I just kinda stood next to it waiting for her to leave but she was talking at me saying you r a good boy, she said it "r", not sure how I knew that but I did, and I'm thinking go the hell away dammit but she comes up and hugs me and has no intention and sets down a little plastic Target table and chairs and pounds fencing into the ground and ya know what cancel recording and erase. No dreams last night.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Is EVERYTHING on slashdot about the frikkin NSA? Here's a picture of a kitten : OMG its an NSA spy!!!
You are obviously an NSA shill.
Accusing someone of being an NSA shill means you must be the NSA shill. We are SO onto you.
Koans and fables for the software engineer
Tesla thought he talked to Martians.
just sayin'
I'd be more interested in an app that could guide me into lucid dreaming. Maybe that'd need some sort of bluetooth dongle like a fitbit.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maybe there is a good reason we forget our dreams.
Having watched Final Fantasy: Spirits Within I'll let you know what people will do with this data: they'll convict you for sympathizing with the enemy.
Go Privacy!
I want an app that lets me keep all the money I find in money dreams.
Doesn't matter. If they buy into a load of pseudoscientific Freudian crap about dreams revealing your "unconscious mind", let them waste their time on that instead of doing something that could cause real harm.
http://www.now-zen.com/
That is what this reminds me of. A friend of mine bought me one many years back. It was just a normal lock, but with a metal bar strapped on the front and the alarm mechanism was a striker that would make a gentle "ding".
It starts out with one ding, then another 3 minutes later, and increases in frequency over the next 10 minutes until it is making a ding every 3 seconds.
I really liked it until it made for a very gentle wake up....that is...it did until it fell off a table and broke. Oddly my cell phone has taken a lot more drops, maybe this isn't such a bad development?
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Once you deactivate the alarm, users are prompted to record their dreams either via voice or typing text.
Haha, too funny. I can barely type on those damn little touchscreens with a relatively low rate of autocorrect goof-ups when I'm wide awake, good luck getting anything coherent out of me right after waking from a deep sleep...and voice would wake up my spouse.
I guess there's always pen and paper, but again, my handwriting is guaranteed to be illegible if I'm still half asleep. Legibility and/or coherency is simply not achievable for me until after my second or third cup of coffee.
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
To me the most annoying part of achieving lucid dreams is having to keep a dream journal, sounds like this could make the process a lot easier and more effective.
But will it help you remember those creepy guys in the suits from The Silence?
Fast forward, I'm a lot older now and have moved on to other problems, in a more scientific environment. For the last 13 years I applied this same technique to all the unanswered logical paradox in physics and have worked through all these issues as well. The answer is rather simple physical model that naturally gives rise to gravity through quantum processes, describes entanglement, double-slit, etc, but now I am left with the hard core mathematics of trying to actually prove the resulting theory. Unfortunately, I have found that this sleep/problem-solving technique apparently hits a proverbial brick wall when you get into an area where you are not properly schooled to work things out completely in your head.
Are there any physics oriented mathematicians out there who love GR, SR, QM, and thermodynamics and could do this kind of stuff in their head? Thought not, but I had to ask! Tried to hire one last week, but couldn't find one who knew this stuff _and_ was willing to be associated with a non-mainstream theory. So I guess I just need to retire, go back to school, and to learn all the math that I need. If I'm lucky enough to even live that long. Writing scientific papers doesn't work in my sleep either. Boring... My sleeping hours are so much more fun these days, if I can remember what I was doing. I'm now spending way to many hours up at night trying to pick up the math I need instead of 'sleeping on it'.
It's called "sleep as android". It not only has that same alarm feature, but also uses phones built in motion sensors to graph your deep sleep. Why does this need a kick start? it's a very simple app
"Shadow, take a note; I just had the weirdest dream. I was dreaming I was eating a large candy bar but it tasted terrible and it was really, really hard. Why is my mouth bleeding? Hey, are you getting any of this? Wait... where's my phone?"
You must be FBI.
Seriously guys?
You are writing an app, you don't need to raise money to do that.
Alternately, what will YOU do with that data? Dreams are entertaining uselessness (though they might have some physiological purpose), as far as I can tell, like cartoons.........
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Make a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting?
That's exactly what a Mossad agent would say.
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
Screw that, I'm waiting until this turns into Futurama style blasting commercials into your dreams.
Because you know that's next.
In marketing, you're apparently supposed to determine how much of a market exists for your product (ie will anyone buy it) before you start designing and building. Something I wish I'd learnt before I built my app, but there's always next time.
In the case of this app, the point might be market research instead of raising capital. And now it's on slashdot, it looks like they're getting a two-fer.
Plan My Week for iPhone
You mean not waking up when I looks like I will finally "get some"?
I get so miffed when I finally have my hands on my fantasy woman and she suddenly vanishes right as my clock radio goes off and I am greeted with another opportunity to spend the whole day doing someone else's paperwork.
Next step is to collect dream information, leaving the door open to advertising for the subconscious: you do not know you want to buy this product, but we know it is your dream!
Seem to have any education or interest in how the mind works, the nature of consciousness, or even basic psychology or philosophy.
I'm beginning to see now the downside of tech, how evil it really is. If you don't understand your own mind, or have any clue as to the nature of your own conscious or unconscious, what good are any of your opinions or perceptions ?
What really stuns me about this topic is how so many people seem unable to even use a search engine to look for information - maybe people need to get off their computers and go talk to a librarian. Or take some college level courses unrelated to tech. Once upon a time people strove to acquire and education that was well-rounded and inclusive. Seems to me that society is more controllable now because everyone is so ignorant outside their extremely narrow specialties.
Dreams are important ! Read some C.G.Jung for chrissakes people ! And ditch the phony "it should be empirically demonstrable" pseudo scientific double-talk, it just makes it obvious that you're just using big words you don't understand.
A wiki article is no substitute for reading a few dozen books. You've been dumbed-down.
Your dream journal can and will be used against you in a court of law. http://kellybulkeley.com/jared-loughners-dream-journal/
My writings would all be something like:
"Fckng SHIT APP!! #%@#$%, STP WAKING ME UP!!!!!"
Of course, it wouldn't be read by anybody because my iPad would be utterly and totally obliterated after it woke me up for the second time.
-- 29A the number of the Beast