A small tool, built to find something out

LucidDream started from one question: can sound, arriving at the right moment of the night, help a person notice that they are dreaming? Lucid dreaming — recognising the dream from inside it — is a real and studied experience, but a hard one to study at home, because the evidence usually arrives as a vague memory with nothing to check it against.

Answering it honestly needs two unglamorous things: a way to say precisely what should play and when, and a faithful record of what really did play. Almost all the work here went into those two. In this version you supply the third piece yourself — your own account of the night — and compare it against the log by hand.

So the app deliberately stops short of interpreting anything. It does not tell you what your night meant, score you, or promise an outcome. It runs your plan and writes down what happened, and leaves the thinking to you. Making that comparison worth doing is the whole point; earning the right to trust the record came first.

This is a beta, given to a small group of people, one conversation at a time. It is rough in places and it will change.