Dream Recorder is now discontinued.

Dream Recorder is a sleep monitoring system detecting body motions with a professional night vision processing for iSights. Motions and sleep phases are strongly correlated.
Discover the most unconventional experience you'll ever had with your Mac.

Opening new fields
You spend a third of your life sleeping. Night times are not as quiet as we think they are. We are all going through a repetition of sleep phases, dreaming or deeply resting. As a physiological fact, body motions are related to these sleep phases. They are detected by Dream Recorder that reconstruct your sleep profile.

A sleep monitor
Many sportsmen use Dream Recorder to monitor their night time recovery. For this purpose, Dream Recorder is fitted with a statistics section keeping records, nights after nights, for many parameters.
Dream Recorder helps you recollecting your dreams. Select a sound to gently wake you up, just after a dream, and tell them, before their memory vanish. Dream Recorder will detect your voice and log them for the next day.
Dreams are an endless source of inspiration, and Dream Recorder is used by novelists, painters and creative people in general.


The night vision of Dream Recorder in action.

A film of your night
Dream Recorder transforms your iSight, a camcorder or any webcam into a long pause/ night vision camera. The light source is the screen backlight. It gently switches on and off, so that you won't even notice it. Dream Recorder also has an infrared mode.

view the film of a night

Placing the camera

Your computer should
be installed on your
night table.

Your computer should be placed near your bed such that the screen backlight is sufficient for the night vision and that the upper part of your body takes a fourth of the image. The best place is actually on the night table. Dream Recorder is designed for laptops.
Innovative night vision

Using the sole computer backlight to get a workable image from a standard webcam is a challenge. On the left, the amazing outcome of months of processing engineering. Matching this quality was the necessary condition for launching Dream Recorder.


Dream Recorder 2.0 - 45$
Upgrade at no cost from version 1.

Full sleep monitoring with night vision, no wires, no long preparation. Just use your mac and your iSight.
Control your nights with accurate statistics, including night time, recovery and dream periods. Ideal for sportsmen.
Wake-up naturally at the end of a sleep cycle and experience mornings full of energy.
Snoring detection system with integrated anti-snoring whistles.
A must.
Sounds while you dream... are sounds influencing dreams ? Well, try the waterfall ambiance :-)
Play relaxation music or your favorite lullaby for a pieceful bed time. Dream Recorder will take care.
Full iTunes integration for importing your own sounds for relaxation, waking-up or dream feedback.
Voice controlled snooze. Growl and the chime stops ringing. Be friend again with your alarm clock.
Voice controlled notepad for your dreams. Just speak and your voice is recorded. Annotate them next day.
Make a quicktime movie of your night with time stamping. What happens during the third of your life ?


Requirements: osX 10.4 or greater. Power PC and Intel. iSights or camcorders. USB webcams require third party drivers. Leopard compatible.
 
Sleeper ergonomic interface

A high quality interface for a great user experience.
The user interface of Dream Recorder has been designed for sleepy users. When used regularly, the installation of the computer, finding information and starting the rercording should be as easy as possible. Therefore, all features are easily accessible from the main panel. Colors are dark on purpose. All panels and buttons have smooth appearance, with light but distinct sounds. Minimal clicking as a rule.
Using the screen backlight can be disturbing. We managed to minimize this trade-off every user makes using this application. The light apparition is smooth — a flash would wake you up — and the time of the first snapshot can be postponed, letting you fall asleep quietly, without your attention being caught by the measurement process.
Our night times are very important and should in no way disturbed by computers. This is our motto.
Scientific background

Dream Recorder has been developed by scientists specialised in instrumentation. This project came to life at the occasion of a collaboration with sleep research.
Body motions are related to sleep phases, however they are not the most reliable criteria for deciding on the present sleep state. Dream Recorder will never compete with an EEG. The accuracy of determination reaches 75% for an adult between 15 and 55 y.o., without sleep disorders.
Dream Recorder should not be used for medical purposes.
Snoring spectrum signature
Professional video and audio processing

Dream recorder uses professional data processing techniques for its night vison and audio recognition.
The night vision stems from techniques used by astronomers to detect small or distant stars from telescopes pictures taken by large array CCD sensors. The algorithm uses virtual backlighting processes, establishing the probability of pixel information being real information or a perturbation.
The snoring detection and microphone squelch are based on spectrogram and wavelets analysis. Both are designed for a silent environment. Dream Recorder provides some test panels for testing these features.