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Setup‐en
Ensure that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone before connecting.
Once connected via BLE, configure and enable Wi-Fi under Network Settings to open the video stream.
Secure the camera above the bed, facing down. Ensure that vertical flip is enabled so that the video feed appears right side up.
Place the camera on a bedside table or edge of the bed facing the pillow. Enable horizontal mirror and ensure that the tilt matches the angle of your face to improve the efficiency of the face detection algorithm.
Lie on your right side with the knees bent enough to make the body stable. If it's comfortable, rest the left arm along your side and place the right hand under the cheek or pillow.
- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening
The practices should be carried out after several hours of sleep. If you normally sleep between 23:00 - 07:00, then you should sleep for 5-6 hours before positioning yourself; i.e. around 4-5 o'clock in the morning.
The effect is reduced if you wake up every morning at 05:00 instead of 07:00. Try to maintain the 23:00 - 07:00 routine from Monday to Friday and then practice at 05:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.
As the INSPEC watches you sleep, so you can learn to watch yourself while you sleep.
We have the input from the 5 senses. These evoke memories from the past and concerns about the future, which in turn invoke feelings and emotions that feed back into the input from the senses, evoking further memories and thoughts and eventually seeding dreams.
The practice is to develop and train a new sense, so to speak; a sense of awareness. This is done by becoming aware of all input from the senses; and especially aware of how it is processed - as in, which thoughts and feelings the input evokes.
With the INSPEC positioned to look back at you and monitor your face, do the same and keep redirecting your awareness back to the input from the 5 senses. Listen intently for the most subtle sounds you can hear. Feel the effect of gravity on your body and the comfort of lying in bed. Become aware of where your body is located. Watch your breathing without controlling it. Feel your heartbeat.
Each time you notice your thoughts drifting off, make an effort to bring your awareness back to the input from the 5 senses and cycle through them.
When you notice your thoughts drifting off too much, focus intently on what you can see in the dark with your eyes closed. Look for any patterns and regions with residual light. Your eyelids should feel heavy and remain closed and relaxed on their own by now. Roll your closed eyes upwards slightly so that they would be looking at your eyebrows if they were open, then focus them a little towards the middle so that they are aimed between the eyebrows. Move them slightly higher until it feels like you are straining a muscle, but not so much that it hurts. They may begin to twitch and increase the illuminated regions. Fully relax them every few seconds, then strain them upwards and inwards again. This will trigger the INSPEC to flash the LED, seeding new regions with residual light and inducing hypnagogic hallucinations and eventually dreams.
Whenever an audio track plays, increase your situational awareness and focus on what you can see, hear, and feel.
(It is focus of attention, of consciousness, which is without diversion or deviation. No other energy available to you as human is as powerful. As a lens will direct energy you call light, so you can use consciousness.)
- Robert Monroe: Far Journeys