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The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
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A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
We investigated how guiding dreaming at sleep onset could enhance creativity.
Produced in collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group.
Our MAS.S63 ClassOne of the clearest ways to build an interdisciplinary research community is to teach a multifaceted class. Our team—Dr. P…
Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.
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Perchance to dream engineer: on new research into our sleeping minds
In the April issue, Michael W. Clune writes about the profound insights offered by the Dormio: "Can technology shape our dreams?"
Sleep researchers call for guidelines for influencing dreams.
Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks
Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"
This is the actual stuff of nightmares.
Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.
“The potential for misuse of these technologies is as ominous as it is obvious.”
After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation.’
A set of principles is written in response to new scientific developments that enable the direction of specific cognitive content in dreams
Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.
Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.
Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.
A 48-hour creative exchange between more than 40 artists and creative technologists.
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From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.
Experts think lucid dreaming could be therapeutic. How to achieve the dream state is complicated.
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.
BBC Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
We spend a third of our lives sleeping but precious little is really known for sure about what happens when our heads hit the pillow.
Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, set out to underline the close connections between art and technology.
When is a sleeper actually asleep?
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.