Apple Watch app for lucid dreaming practice

Train your reality checks. Wake up inside your dreams.

Lucid Totem helps you build the habit of reality checks through timed prompts, heart-rate triggers, night modes, and research tools for lucid dreaming.

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Built for Apple Watch. Companion app for iPhone in development.

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Day Night

Night - Wake Back To Bed

Activate/Deactivate
Settings
Logs
Research Mode

The idea

A totem on your wrist.

Lucid Totem turns Apple Watch into a daily and nightly cue for awareness. During the day, it reminds you to do reality checks. At night, it can support WBTB and Night Check routines with discreet haptics and logs.

Features

Designed around the practice of lucid dreaming.

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Reality checks during the day

Discreet reminders to pause, observe, and ask yourself: "Am I dreaming?"

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Heart Rate Reality Check

When your heart rate rises above a threshold compared with resting heart rate, Lucid Totem can trigger a reality check.

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Night Mode

Night routines for WBTB and Night Check, designed to support lucid dreaming practice during sleep.

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Research Mode

A dedicated section for live data such as heart rate, movement, norm, angle, and other parameters available from Apple Watch.

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Automatic logs

Track modes, reality checks, night checks, WBTB sessions, and settings changes.

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iPhone companion app

View logs, research data, notifications, and version history from your phone.

Modes

Day, Night, and Research Mode.

Day Mode

Train while awake

Lucid Totem uses timers, haptics, and heart-rate signals to build a reality check habit throughout the day.

  • Timed Reality Check
  • Heart Rate Reality Check
  • Low, Medium, High, and Hyper frequencies
  • Preset haptics
Night Mode

Support during the night

Modes for Wake Back To Bed and Night Check, with haptics and stop controls through touch, movement, or small tasks.

  • Configurable WBTB
  • Night Check
  • Night haptics
  • Stop with touch or math prompt
Research Mode

Data to improve the algorithm

A testing mode for collecting useful sleep-behavior data while respecting HealthKit limits and user privacy.

Demo

See the prototype in motion.

The current prototype focuses on the Apple Watch experience: Day/Night modes, activation toggle, settings, logs, and the foundation for Research Mode.

Research

Health data stays serious.

Lucid Totem is built around Apple Watch data and clearly separates live sensor data, estimated values, and experimental signals. Research features are opt-in and designed with privacy in mind.

Clear distinction between live and estimated data Experimental signals labeled transparently HealthKit permissions only when needed Research export only with explicit opt-in

Beta

Join the Lucid Totem beta.

Be among the first testers of the Apple Watch app for reality checks, night routines, and lucid dreaming research.

Complete short form to join the waitlist

You can also write to info@lucidtotem.com.