MIT researchers create wearable device that can influence the content of dreams
Sep 03, 2020
4 minutes
ADAM HAAR HOROWITZ
TOMÁS VEGA
YOUR STUDY IS ABOUT ‘TARGETED DREAM INCUBATION’. WHAT EXACTLY IS THAT?
AH: In short, the idea is that you could target specific content to be incubated in dreams, which is a kind of cheap explanation, but there’s been a long history of trying to have subjects dream of something specific. Partially, the interest is clinical – we want to avoid nightmares, for example. Partially, it’s therapeutic – we want people to help work through the more emotional side of some content. And partially it’s memory-based – if you dream about something, you’re going to remember it better when you wake up.
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