Lucid Dreams

Dream control can be learned.

Polysomnograph - expensive device that measures your brain and several other properties in sleep [1]

Dormio device (from MIT) inspiration: *

What past work inspired you? Where can I read more about it?

This project is inspired by a very old technique – the steel ball technique – famously used by Edison to gain insights into his inventions. Our work, which both formalizes and extends the scope and capability of this technique, is impossible without past work investigating possibilities of influencing dreams in the neuroscience lab. This work includes that conducted by scientists like Stephen LaBerge and Benjamin Baird, who do wonderful work on later-stage lucid dreaming, focusing on the REM state. Scientists like Jonathan Smallwood and Jonathan Schooler have done work on mind-wandering and creativity, inspiring our idea that fluid thinking outside of executive control in hypnagogia (like mind-wandering) could augment creativity. Work by Deirdre Barrett compiling moments of inspiration found in sleep, and work by Robert Stickgold and Tore Nielsen on microdream phenomenology, all encouraged and informed us. Andreas Mavromatis wrote a whole thesis on hypnagogia, and his writing gave us a sense of the poetry and practical applications of this state (as did Nabokov, Oliver Sacks, Yoga Nidra practitioners, and Edgar Allen Poe writing on hypnagogia). Our sense of this vast work was given to us by the three advisors who have helped us most throughout this work, in and out of the classroom—Professors Pattie Maes, Ed Pace-Schott and Robert Stickgold.

Steve LaBerge - [2]. You have to accept the shadow characters in a dream to go further. Nondualistic identity. .Horrible monsters need love, too. Nonduality = homecoming = love is. Aware nondreaming state experience of nonduality..

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