With the Dormio system, we are able to reliably influence hypnagogic dreams and collect dream content. We found that active use of the "targeted dream incubation" protocol during hypnagogia can augment human creativity .

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a method for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. In our lab, we have mainly explored using auditory and olfactory stimuli to achieve TDI, but the TDI methodology encompasses a wide range of …

Apr 13, 2020 · From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.

Jul 21, 2020 · In a new paper, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group introduce a novel method called “Targeted Dream Incubation” (TDI). This protocol, implemented through an app in conjunction with a wearable sleep-tracking sensor device, not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes by repeating ...

Aug 1, 2020 · We explore the application of a wide range of sensory stimulation technologies to the area of sleep and dream engineering. We begin by emphasizing the causal role of the body in dream generation, and describe a circuitry between the sleeping body and the dreaming mind.

Feb 21, 2019 · It was the first-ever “Dream Engineering” workshop hosted by the MIT Dream Lab, which was formed a year and a half ago. One theme of the two-day workshop was lucid dreaming — a phenomena where people realize they’re having a dream while they’re dreaming.

We built a system which allows for the crowdsourcing of dream reports and a dream questionnaire. We employ a combination of several AI “text to image” algorithms, in order to analyze these various types of information and to generate sequences of dream images.

Here, we present a novel protocol using a new wearable electronic device, Dormio, to automatically generate serial auditory dream incubations at sleep onset, wherein targeted information is repeatedly presented during the hypnagogic period, enabling direct incorporation of this information into dream content, a process we call targeted dream ...

Feb 4, 2019 · A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.