Manufacturing Dreams

New submitter geekgirl09 sends in a story from Wired about the U.S. Army's efforts to develop methods for digitally manufacturing dreams to soothe combat vets who suffer from PTSD. From the article: "Fifty-two percent of combat veterans with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) reported having nightmares fairly often, according to the National Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Study. ... So the researchers will ask troops to take control of the 'creation of the customized healing imagery (therapeutic dreams) to counter the impact of nightmares,' according to a military contracting document. The hope is that these 'power dreams' can be watched from laptops and 'home training and 3-D goggles work to gradually enhance the strength of these new neurological images.'"

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Re:Lucid Dreaming

[TaoPhoenix]

Lucid Dreaming is a strange and complicated skill, and Science typically does not measure strange and complicated skill. It kinda scares science.They lump it all under Placebo Effect and try to wash it away.

There's like 20 esoteric mental skills that are relevant here, but of course if you ridicule them enough you can ignore them.