MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' (vice.com)

dmoberhaus writes: Researchers at MIT Media Lab have adapted a centuries' old technique for inducing hypnagogia for the 21st century. Known as Dormio, this system is able to extend and manipulate the period users spend in a transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep known as hypnagogia. This state is characterized by vivid hallucinations and microdreams, and as the MIT researchers demonstrated, the contents of these microdreams can be manipulated with the system and subsequently result in heightened creativity when the user awakes. Motherboard got the exclusive details on the system.

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I signed up for

[goombah99]

the martian spy adventure dream.

Re:I signed up for

[john of sparta]

did you get it Wholesale?

Queensryche

[Errol backfiring]

So they listened to Silent Lucidity and tried it out?

AI sees, AI does.

[devslash0]

That's why I told them not to show The Matrix to AI. AI sees, AI does.

"Forks are colonalism"

[cfalcon]

The article allllllmost gets through itself without going into politics, but out of the all the examples in the infinite noosphere this machine is meant to probe, the one that made the cut was the phrase "forks are colonialism".
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“I asked him about it when he woke up,” Horowitz told me. “He said, ‘Oh at home I eat food with my hands and here I have a sharp, cold metal instrument that I use to stab the food that goes into me. I guess it has a colonial energy.’
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The idea of hypnagogia exploitation is interesting, but if all we're going to get is postmodern poetry fragments that decry 2400 year old eating instruments, maybe our thought leaders should stick to microdosing LSD for ideas.

Re:"Forks are colonalism"

[Jeremi]

Different people dream about different things.

Most of what people dream about is silly or irrelevant, even with respect to their own life. Occasionally there might be a nugget of insight that is relevant to the dreamer, but if you're hoping to get something useful to you from somebody else's unconscious, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

OTOH, if you were simply offended by Horowitz' subconscious assessment of forks, and felt the need to go on the record about that, then I think there is nothing more to discuss here.

Well that explains a lot...

[bobbied]

There are some impossibly crazy folks in this world. Can we PLEASE stop this crazy train? I'm ready to wake up now!

Captcha.. It's only a dream.... A bad dream...

Obligatory Futurama

[Nidi62]

Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

Re:Obligatory Futurama

[Jason Levine]

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System for Dream Control = systemd

[jfdavis668]

Is this an escalation of the conspiracy?

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[WallyL]

I read the title as, "MIT Researchers Developed a 'Systemd for Dream Control'" and thought, "Oh, great. Now they're ruining dreams too! Systemctl stop nightmare.service"

Re:I woke up

[Bengie]

I've been lucid dreaming since I was 3. Had to learn to control my horrible nightmares. Gotten to the point that when I dream, I try to shut down the dream so I can sleep. I've dreamed nearly everything I've wanted to dream, and dragging out a dream just means I get less sleep.

Inception

[Stonent1]

Time to really mess with their minds, Inception style.