INSPEC Lucid Dreaming Device
A night-vision smart camera that knows when you are dreaming
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A night-vision smart camera that knows when you are dreaming
36 followers
The INSPEC is like having your own sleep lab technician that watches your eyes with a night-vision smart camera and alerts you when you're dreaming. No electrodes, no wearables, no wear and tear. It triggers LED light cues or audio prompts during REM sleep to help you become lucid in your dreams. Configure detection thresholds, set progressive audio cues, view hypnograms with video clips of rapid eye movement episodes, and use the Smart Alarm to wake at the optimal point in your sleep cycle.
INSPEC Lucid Dreaming Device
I'm Michael Paul Coder, and I've been building lucid dreaming tools since the year 2000.
The hardware side started in 2011 with an accelerometer wrapped in a headband sensitive enough to pick up a heartbeat. Then quickly evolved to EEG with the NeuroSky MindWave and EOG with electrodes around the eyes. Hackaday covered each iteration along the way. But I kept getting false positives from breathing patterns and other sleep artifacts. So I started recording myself with a night-vision camera to supplement the sleep logs and see what was going on...
I could see REM sleep clear as day in the video recordings. I eventually abandoned the EEG research entirely and focused on applying the advances in machine vision to detect REM sleep in real time from video feeds. The debugging tool became the INSPEC: a bedside smart camera that uses infrared machine vision to detect eye movements during REM sleep and trigger LEDs or audio cues to promote lucidity.
The Lucid Scribe companion app is free and works standalone. It includes a dream journal with voice dictation, automatic dream sign detection that finds patterns across your entries, guided exercises for every major technique, an XP system that tracks your progress, a 28-day training program that guides you through the lucid dreaming techniques, and an 8-step prospective memory training program based on LaBerge's research that trains the same cognitive skill that lets you recognize you're dreaming.
The original desktop version of Lucid Scribe that focused on EEG devices and biofeedback hardware is used by researchers worldwide and has been cited in over 20 publications on Google Scholar, some with over 600 citations.
Happy to answer any questions about REM detection, lucid dreaming, or the tech behind the INSPEC. Let me know what you think!
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the hypnogram with video clips feature caught my attention - being able to actually see the eye movements during REM episodes sounds like it would be fascinating to review. does the camera positioning need to be super precise, or is there some tolerance for people who move around a lot in their sleep?
INSPEC Lucid Dreaming Device
@piotreksedzik Thanks! Yes, after years of divining over obscure EEG readouts, being able to actually see the eye movements in the video clips was eye-opening. The camera positioning does need to be precise, but once you've found the right angle (like in the video) it's set and forget and works night after night. I'm always on standby to help with the initial setup...
INSPEC Lucid Dreaming Device
@amm8 You could mount the INSPEC on your headboard if you are a back sleeper. But for lucid dreaming it doesn't need to catch every REM episode. You could intend to wake up at 04:00 AM or after wake-back-to-bed and roll into a position where you are facing it.
Here it caught rapid eye movements from the bedside table while I was sleeping on my back: https://lsdbase.org/2025/11/09/supine-to-lateral/ (not my most flattering angle!)