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World's Largest Dream Database Smashes Kickstarter Goal
NEW YORK, October 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
SHADOW reaches nearly $60,000 to help people record and remember dreams
SHADOW, a New-York based startup building the world's largest dream database, has
smashed its funding goal on Kickstarter thanks to 2758 strong backers with 29 days
remaining. Now available at $8, SHADOW helps users record and remember their dreams.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterleesoik/shadow-community-of-dreamers
With total funding now secured, SHADOW can now finish building its mobile application,
an innovative alarm clock that helps users remember and record their dreams by placing
them in a cloud-based, global dream repository.
Founder hunter lee soik explains: "Some of humanity's best scientific discoveries
begin in dreams, yet most of us forget 95% of our dreams within minutes of waking up.
Thanks to our Kickstarter backers we can now build an app to capture all that lost dream
data, and we are absolutely astounded by the positive response we've had so far. A massive
thank you to every one who has backed, supported and given us your feedback, we could not
have done it without you."
At its heart SHADOW is an alarm clock, but with a stunning design and advanced
features. Simply tell SHADOW when you go to bed and the time you wish to wake up, and come
morning it will use a series of escalating alarms. The gradual increase in volume not only
makes the waking up process easier, but helps you better remember your dreams by taking
you through your hypnopompic state (the transition from asleep to awake) much slower than
a standard alarm clock.
Once you're awake, SHADOW immediately prompts you to record your dreams, you can speak
or text your dream into the app and if you do audio we'll transcribe to text and pull out
the key words. From there we'll push the dream to a secured server where we can
anonymously organize the global data to identify major themes and trends.
For the times when remembering dreams is tricky, you can opt to answer a series of
5-10 questions designed to jog your memory. The whole process takes less than five
minutes, and once the data is recorded you decide how far and wide to share it.
"Tying the dream capture process into the sleep daily cycle makes it easy to visualize
dream life and tap into dream patterns trending across the world," explains SHADOW
Co-founder Jason Carvalho.
Early Backers will receive the application beginning around December, and you can
still back the project from as little as $2 on their Kickstarter page
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterleesoik/shadow-community-of-dreamers ] until the
campaign ends at 11:11am on November 2.
Notes to Editor
Press-ready screenshots, headshots and SHADOW logos are available here
[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0dve8spx2mkl4fb/E7VRrNTgMI ]
Dynamo KickStarter PR
CONTACT: For Media Enquiries, please contact: Lexi Mills at Dynamo, Mobile: +44-7825-739-243, Email: lexi.mills@dynamopr.com, Twitter: @leximills, Skype: leximills
World's Largest Dream Database Smashes Kickstarter Goal
NEW YORK, October 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
SHADOW reaches nearly $60,000 to help people record and remember dreams
SHADOW, a New-York based startup building the world's largest dream database, has
smashed its funding goal on Kickstarter thanks to 2758 strong backers with 29 days
remaining. Now available at $8, SHADOW helps users record and remember their dreams.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterleesoik/shadow-community-of-dreamers
With total funding now secured, SHADOW can now finish building its mobile application,
an innovative alarm clock that helps users remember and record their dreams by placing
them in a cloud-based, global dream repository.
Founder hunter lee soik explains: "Some of humanity's best scientific discoveries
begin in dreams, yet most of us forget 95% of our dreams within minutes of waking up.
Thanks to our Kickstarter backers we can now build an app to capture all that lost dream
data, and we are absolutely astounded by the positive response we've had so far. A massive
thank you to every one who has backed, supported and given us your feedback, we could not
have done it without you."
At its heart SHADOW is an alarm clock, but with a stunning design and advanced
features. Simply tell SHADOW when you go to bed and the time you wish to wake up, and come
morning it will use a series of escalating alarms. The gradual increase in volume not only
makes the waking up process easier, but helps you better remember your dreams by taking
you through your hypnopompic state (the transition from asleep to awake) much slower than
a standard alarm clock.
Once you're awake, SHADOW immediately prompts you to record your dreams, you can speak
or text your dream into the app and if you do audio we'll transcribe to text and pull out
the key words. From there we'll push the dream to a secured server where we can
anonymously organize the global data to identify major themes and trends.
For the times when remembering dreams is tricky, you can opt to answer a series of
5-10 questions designed to jog your memory. The whole process takes less than five
minutes, and once the data is recorded you decide how far and wide to share it.
"Tying the dream capture process into the sleep daily cycle makes it easy to visualize
dream life and tap into dream patterns trending across the world," explains SHADOW
Co-founder Jason Carvalho.
Early Backers will receive the application beginning around December, and you can
still back the project from as little as $2 on their Kickstarter page
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterleesoik/shadow-community-of-dreamers ] until the
campaign ends at 11:11am on November 2.
Notes to Editor
Press-ready screenshots, headshots and SHADOW logos are available here
[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0dve8spx2mkl4fb/E7VRrNTgMI ]
Dynamo KickStarter PR
CONTACT: For Media Enquiries, please contact: Lexi Mills at Dynamo, Mobile: +44-7825-739-243, Email: lexi.mills@dynamopr.com, Twitter: @leximills, Skype: leximills