Category Archives: Psychology

Dolphins Find My Missing Tooth

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I’ve been using my viewing device (Pattern Disc Viewer) to help condition me while awake, to hopefully induce marine mammal communication-related dreams at night.

Using the image below, via the viewer, I focus on it for a specified period of time.

I began to use the viewer for 15 minutes a day, after three days of use I had the following dream.

Pattern Disk Viewer Dream #1:

I was working in the garage, and noticed that one of my molars felt loose. I barely touched the tooth and it fell out. I was not too happy about that.

The house and garage were situated near a small ocean bay. I had the tooth in my hand, and noticed movement in the bay. I felt uneasy as I could see the rounded backs of rather ominous-looking orange and black octopus-like creatures.

It seemed like the creatures wanted to take the tooth away from me. I was not about to let that happen, so I walked around the shoreline to the other side of the bay.

While on the other side of the bay, I accidentally dropped the tooth in the water. Suddenly, I could see a group of dolphins. They were bobbing up and down in the water watching me.

Then one of the dolphins said, “He dropped the tooth, we should help him find it.” I recall being surprised that the dolphin spoke. The dolphins came towards me and began searching for the tooth. One of them found the tooth and gave it to me.

That was the dream in its entirety. It was significant for me as it was the first dream that I induced.

Next step is to become lucid within the dream, so that I can carry on a full conversation. More on this in future posts.

Cuttlefish Comm Board – Update 1

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In my original post Cuttlefish Comm Board, I was planning on laying the LED strip on its side. Well, after digging into addressable LED strips, I quickly learned that this option was not going to work.

Laying the strip on its side would give me better LED resolution (spacing between the LEDs), but I could never figure out which LED I was trying to program, as opposed to laying it out flat. Also, rolled up, I could not fill in the entire display area, as I was limited by the angle that I could bend the strip.

I decided that I would cut the strips and connect them together, so that they could be laid out flat. The LED resolution would not be as good, but at least I could keep the project moving.

By the way, if you plan to buy LED strips, know that not all of them are addressable/programmable. Some just flash, which unfortunately I bought first. No biggie, as I am using this strip to practice cutting and splicing.

The strip on the left is the non-programmable – only flashes. The strip on the right is programmable via a micro controller (Arduino Board – or others) and a computer.

Cutting and splicing LED strips is not that easy – just my opinion. I was not able to solder the strips together with discrete wires, but found some connector clips on line, shown below. They worked pretty well.

The picture below shows sample strips laid flat. This is how the entire cuttlefish display area will look. Each yellow square is a multi color LED. The splicing connectors will be behind the display area.

I’m going to lay this out so I can play around with the programming. I am not happy with the resolution, but after thinking a bit more I decided to ultimately go with an LED display board, as shown in this picture.

This is a 16 x 32 LED display, which I should be able to control using my Arduino PCB (at least the literature said it would work).

This will give me 512 LEDs, good resolution, variable colors, and I can make them appear as a moving wave. This is really much more like the chromatophore cells on the cuttlefish skin. Should be cool!

My display area is smaller (due to the size of the LED board, but that is an easy fix. I’ll just make the cuttlefish display area a bit smaller.

Now if I just knew how to program in C++. Okay, more to learn.