Net Connected Dream Inducer

Chudmorph writes "Philips is developing some odd thing they call Nebula. In a nutshell, it's "an interactive projection system designed to enrich the experience of going to bed, sleeping and waking up." "The system consists of a ceiling projector linked via the Internet to a database of content. The content consists of just about anything ranging from an alarm clock, to clouds, and even poetry." This thing even responds to body movements! " Here's a review, but I gotta believe that this is a joke.

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Hypnagogic dreaming

[blakestah]

It has been known for some time that the earliest stages of dreaming can be strongly influenced by sensory input just before going to sleep. Whereas you cannot predict exactly what will be in the dream, it is fairly certain some of it will relate to what was happening just before you fall asleep. This is not as true of dreams later in the evening.

There is a nice trio of reviews of theories of sleep and dreaming in the latest issue of Science.

Re:Popular In Japan

[nido]

ah, been there, tried that.. My problem is kinda weird, in that I literally don't dream very vividly visually. I'll wake up and remember a story line, but there are few visual impressions to go along with that storyline. That being said, I once saw a sort of massage therapist (actually a "trigger point therapist") thrice last spring, and for a week and a half afterwards I had the most incredibly visually intense dreams in my life. And then I started to write them down (like you're supposed to), and the visual aspect of the dreams cut out. Just like that. At the time I wasn't sure what to attribute the dreams to (I'd gone home for spring break, had started taking a magnesium supplement, had steak & the like for the first time in months, and saw the trigger point lady), but I've recently been told that it was, in all likelyhood, the bodywork.. So tomorrow I'm going to call people who do Craniosacral therapy. And hopefully the dreams will return.

I've tried it all - vitamins, herbs, dream journels, reality checks, alone and in combinations, nothing else has brought the sort of intense dreaming I now know is possible. Feel free to email if anyone would like to talk about the subject..