The concept of a social network around dreams is compelling. Outside of private conversations with friends, we rarely, if ever, share these crazy/scandalous/funny/unusual stories.
I'm playing with it now.
@rrhoover The danger is that our own dreams are often much more compelling to ourselves than to others. I like that they use visuals and short description length to keep them more engaging (not sure if capped or an artifact of mobile text entry)
Reminds me of Secret, except on Secret, people pretend their dreams actually happened ;)
@rrhoover | We call ourselves a social utility, the utility being the Alarm Clock while the dreams drive the social. You call also think about us like a mirror, we want to help surface the dream data and show you the patterns in your sub conscious mind. Let's say last night you dreamt about a RocketShip, we want to tell you this is the 4 time you dream about a RocketShip and here are 158 other people who also dream about a RocketShip last night.
@hunterleesoik Thanks for coming on to discuss! Can't wait for more sleep tracker features you said are coming soon (using the data I give the app when I "slide to sleep" and "slide to wake"? other signals?)
Hope this is helpful: the alarm function doesn't work for me at the moment. I tried it last night with the default iOS alarm as a backup 10 minutes later. The iOS alarm woke me up. Shadow was just popping up notifications, but making no sound. Also, the alarm page also crashed 3 times for me, and the sample alarm sound (when choosing which one you want to play in settings) didn't stop until I closed the app :) Happy to provide more info off-thread.
There's some really interesting research in this space, particularly reading brain activity to work out the contents of dreams. http://www.nature.com/news/scien...
By their nature I think dreams could be very difficult to put into words and as @staringispolite says, they are often far more engaging for ourselves.
@staringispolite | this is super good! I'm interested to try. We also think we can induce lucid dreaming via binaural, but that's a conversation we can have in a couple months.
I've tried a few of these iOS apps and the biggest problem is that I don't understand a damn thing about what I wrote down the next day. Basically the second you write it down you lose all the context to what the dream was about and are just left with words. I like the structured data aspect of this though where they just track key words, that might be the most useful thing, keywords for people, places, activities, objects.
I really wish someone would invent something that can take a snapshot of the visual i'm remembering from my dream.
@rrhoover@ldrogen Not to alarm anyone but... people are totally working on that :) http://www.ign.com/articles/2013...
Also: I've heard the "understanding what you wrote" thing gets better with practice. And obviously, better when you're waking up, as opposed to the middle of the night.
I'm very curious to see what effect their iOS8 integration (record dreams from the notification screen) has on description quality
@hunterleesoik do you plan to extend the gentle wake up period?
I found out that no app (that I know of) has a gentle wake up period of 30 minutes and I'd love a smoother transition (8 minutes it's just too fast for me).
@andrea_sdl | We do, we are rebuilding the alarm this week.
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I've seen a lot of products on PH pop up that are related to Lucid dreaming and the goal of having lucid dreams. Has this always been something with a trickle of products or is it a recent fascination?
Their landing page doesn't do a great job of explaining what this is:
* Dream journal - setting the intention to dream before you go to sleep, and keeping a dream journal, are both supposed to help remember your dreams more often and in more detail.
* Discover - read others' dreams as well (importantly, they're usually succinct)
* Sleep tracker - Self-explanatory
* "Ease-in" Alarm clock. Starts soft to wake you up gently. Gets louder as needed.
* Dark UI is easy on the eyes since the lights will be off in most use cases.
h/t @rrhoover
I wrote one of the first articles on Hunter + Shadow (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alex...). Saw an early early version last year- it is awesome. Beautifully designed.
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