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Poet Will Dowd used the MIT Media Lab's Dormio project to seed his dreams with recorded poetry from Harvard University’s audio archive.
Study from the Fluid Interfaces exploring dreams was referenced by TIME magazine.
Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and CEO of DUST, treats sleep hours as a space to design and influence thought.
Dream engineering, pioneered at the MIT Media Lab, is named the most powerful idea of the 21st century by BBC Science Focus experts.
First things first. Make sure you have your PCB, solder, soldering iron, flux pen, and electronic components ready to go.
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.
Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.
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.
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.
Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.
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.
"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"
Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.
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.
From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.
Pattie Maes discusses her group’s approach to bridging this divide and improving our relationships with technology.
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.
The Ars Electronica Festival runs from September 6-10, 2018 in Linz, Austria
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.