Knitting up the raveled sleeve of care

[jackshandy]

I need an alarm clock that's set to wake my up when I'm not in REM sleep. Not only does it annoy me to miss part of a dream, but I am REALLY loggy when I'm interrupted in certain parts of the sleep cycle, even if I've gotten a reasonable amount of sleep.

Comments

REM detectors

[anonymous]

Here's promising research, but they don't seem to be getting off the mark:

http://www.axonlabs.com/products/future.html

...and if you read all the comments on this gizmo, I think you'll find it is, alas, some kind of motion detector, not a REM analyzer:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleeptracker-Wake-Up-Monitor/dp/B000E8FG20/sr=8-1/qid=1165014748/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5314640-3341543?ie=UTF8&s=hpc

- "MumP"