Launching today
DreamKnock
Your Apple Watch senses REM and cues you into lucid dreams
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Your Apple Watch senses REM and cues you into lucid dreams
9 followers
DreamKnock turns your Apple Watch into a lucid dreaming trainer. While you sleep, it senses REM from heart-rate dynamics and wrist stillness, then plays a gentle haptic rhythm — quiet enough to slip into the dream instead of ending it. Train the rhythm by day with reality checks, so at night it means one thing: this is a dream. Wake to a map of your night: REM windows, cues, trends, dream journal. 100% on-device — no servers, no accounts. PH exclusive: 3 months free (see promo code) 🌙
Apple Watch user here, this looks genuinely useful. One thing I'd love: let me pick the haptic pattern myself, maybe a custom tap sequence I design in the app. That way the cue feels more personal and less like a generic notification I might half-dismiss in my sleep.
@derinalmargwoo Hey Derin, thanks for this — really good point.
Right now DreamKnock ships with three preset rhythms (Classic, Heartbeat, Waves) that you can pick between, but you're right that a fully custom sequence would make the cue feel like yours specifically, which matters a lot for something you need to recognize half-asleep. A pattern you designed yourself is inherently more distinct than any preset I could ship.
This is genuinely on my radar for a future update — a simple in-app tap editor (record your own rhythm, save it, use it as your nightly cue). No promises on timing yet since I'm one person building this, but I'm bookmarking your comment as the spec for it. If/when I ship it, I'll come back and tag you here.
In the meantime, if you try the preset rhythms and have a preference on tempo/spacing, that feedback would actually help shape what the default options sound like too. 🌙
honestly the idea of a haptic cue that doesn't wake you is so cool. one thing though, would be great to export the dream journal as plain text or pdf. some of us like to move journals between apps or back them up outside the watch.
the gentle haptics feel like a nudge rather than a jolt, and i actually stayed asleep through them. waking up to a clean map of my REM windows makes the whole thing feel worth it.
honestly this looks really cool and the on-device approach is great. one thing i'd love to see is a sleep talk or whisper mic option for capturing mumbled dream snippets right after a REM window, since typing them out in the morning usually wipes the memory anyway.
the haptic rhythm thing is genuinely clever, using one signal for two different contexts and letting your brain learn the association through the daytime training sessions. really thoughtful execution honestly