[philwelch]

Do the LEDs “induce” lucid dreaming or are they just a cue for you to look for? Because the cue thing might be slightly less absurd. If you get in the habit of performing “reality checks” (is checking for things that would be present in reality but not in a dream or vice versa), you would notice when you were dreaming and would hence have lucid dreams.

Of course, it’s still a dumb product since you can just check whether written text changes when you’re not looking at it, but it’s not necessarily as dumb as it sounds.

[jacobush]

My dreams are often pretty chaotic. It would be very uncharacteristically solemn for me to write something and check if it's there when I look again.

I haven't tried, but I can imagine blinking lights always present would be a much bigger clue to me.

[pharke]

Same, it's pretty difficult to take notes while attempting to rescue someone from a possessed building that looks a bit like a brutalist interpretation of the Globe Theatre, what with having to fight your way through its zombie-like denizens and arguing with a disembodied voice that seems to be controlling the lighting.

I'm not really sure what I'd do differently in a lucid dream anyways, my subconscious seems to have a better imagination than I do. Remembering more details from dreams would be more important for me I guess.

[pavel_lishin]

> since you can just check whether written text changes when you’re not looking at it

To throw an anecdote into the bucket, I've had a dream where I read a word, and it didn't seem to change on closer inspection, and I remembered it when I woke up. But it didn't cue any lucid dreaming.

But I'm also out of the habit of checking.

[EamonnMR]

Clocks are a good one, except if you're office happens to have a broken clock hanging up in a meeting room.

[Infernal]

It’s light switches for me. They never work in dreams.