INTERVAL TRAINING
What we know about lucid dreaming isn't much.
However, there are a few facts we followed when creating the "Applied Lucidity App". It's very clear that sleepers enter the dream state (REM) multiple times during the night, and at those times if there is an external clue to alert their conscious mind, they can enter the dream in a lucid or conscious state.
We built the app as a training device to teach dreamers how to become lucid during a dream, and to do that we selected various times during the night to have the app play a verbal recording that triggered lucidity. This timing is based on the standard intervals we all go into the REM mode every night.
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Once a person gets the 'hang' of dream lucidity, chances are they will be able to become lucid without the app prompts. That's our goal.
To understand your nightly sleep states we are showing two graphs below. The first is the cycles or intervals that we all go through each night - starting from light sleep, then transitioning through another light sleep, to a deep sleep and then the REM phase. Once this cycle completes, we start again and repeat this usually four times a night. That nightly REM sleep is shown on the second graph. We based our app on these standard settings to allow most people the chance to become lucid at least once a night.
Once a sleepers learned to become lucid, they can set up their own voice trigger timing. And finally, (as we noted above) they may find they don't need the app at all. Great!
To get additional information about your personal dream times, you will need to select an additional sleep tracker that will give you that information. There are a few that use either your brain waves, your heart rate variability (HVR) or something almost magical. The brain waves are read with a head band, and the HRV or heart rate variability readings are often wrist or finger wearables. The choice is yours - and it is good to know your intervals while you sleep - it makes it easier and more precise to set up your personal nightly applied lucidity program. We have personally tested a few, looking for comfort and accuracy and the two we feel do a decent job of tracking are a wrist strap www.whoop.com , and a finger ring https://ouraring.com.
The latest entry to the sleep tracking wearables is the Apple Watch which can be bought in the Apple store - www.apple.com