Dream Recorder is the ideal companion of
your nights, allowing you to understand better this third of
our life spent in bed. Dream recollection, sleep hygiene,
curiosity, you will find your own reasons for using this
software of a new kind. Nights after nights, Dream Recorder
keeps records of your sleep profiles. It provides statistics
and give you the possibility to annotate your dream records
with notes or keywords. It wakes you up at the right time, can
play sounds while you dream. It records your voice
automatically when you tell about your dreams. It's alarm clock
can be switched off by voice.
The Sleep Profile: Dream Recorder uses the difference
between successive reconstructed images for computing the
quantity of motion (see image on the right). Quantity of
motions are reflected by the colored bar graph. High peaks mean
motions. Very low peaks are just in the detection noise base
level. Dream periods are lit up by spotlights. Normal sleeps
are represented by the dark blue shades. Deep sleeps have no
lights nor shading. Night events are displayed under the
timeline, here a dream feedback followed by a voice recording.
You'll get quickly used in understanding sleep profiles.
Snorings Whistles: The Dream recorder sound processor
distiguishes snorings from voice. Snorings can even launch some
whistles
Sleep Statistics: Statistics are provided, extracted
from your profiles, nights after nights. This feature has been
added for users who want to keep trace of their sleep habit, or
monitor their night recovery that happens essentially during
deep sleep phases. This feature of Dream Recorder will
certainly evolve in the future, as this was a strong request
after version 1.
HTML, Quicktime & Text Export :All night reports of
Dream recorder can be exported to HTML pages, including
profiles, night events, dream notes, recordings and films. A
quicktime movie of all snapshots is created by default, with
time stamping. A simple text export is also available.
Using The Timeline: You may zoom in and out, and center
the sleep profile graph at any moment, as for adjusting it to
your usual sleep times.
The graph can also be moved right and left with a simple drag,
pressing the shift key.
A simple click on the profile will display a small clock in the
top right part of the screen. An image is displayed for that
time if one exists.
Browsing Reports: Dream Recorder keeps all night reports
in its library. Profiles statistics, notes, dream recordings,
all the information is at hand and searchable. The interface
layout is very similar to these of iPhoto or iTunes and you
will easilly navigate. Night reports can be displayed as sleep
profiles, but also as list of events, including much more
information, like which camera has been used, filenames and
warnings. All sleep stages are clearly tagged.
Each element has a specialized inspector, as these of voice
recordings, where searchable annotations and keywords can be
entered.
Sound Playing Zones: Dream Recorder only plays sounds
when you wish. The dream feedback and wake-up periods can be
exactly adjusted according to your needs.
Outside these time zones, Dream Recorder will remain silent. We
recommend to set the dream feedback zone from 3am to 4am for a
night starting at 11pm. Refrain from setting these zones over
the full night.
The alarm clock will play at the end of the wake-up period if
you have not stopped the recording by then.
iTunes Inside:Sounds are so personnal ... Dream Recorder
may use all the sounds and music from your iTunes library, even
these bought from the iTunes store. Browse your library
directly from Dream Recorder in same way you would do it in
iTunes. Once a track is selected, tell Dream Recorder how you
wish to use it. Select one of the icons for relaxation, dream
feedback or waking up.
You can also select only parts of iTunes tracks, adjust the
volume individually and set how many times the sound should be
played. A very handy feature !
Dream Recordings: When you just had a dream and have
gently been alerted by the dream feedback sound, just tell
about your dream and the application will automatically log
your voice for you. You can later hear your dream again and
annotate it.
Professional Video And Audio Processing: Dream Recorder
has a completly smooth animated interface. Each button is
designed for a relaxing user experience. Windows are smoothly
fading in and out. Clicks and actions are emphasized with
specially recorded sounds, very quiet. The colors are chosen
for being viewed in the dark and not glaring. An interface made
for sleepy users. During the night, no actions are required on
the keyboard. All operations are voice controlled. Just may be
the emergency stop: press the space bar for few seconds and
dream Recorder will stay idle, except for the alarm clock of
course :-)
Once ported to Leopard, the interface will be reviewed and take
full advantage of the amazing Core Animation capabilities.
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