Although some say that dreams do not affect our lives and continue their lives without caring, a small team at MIT thinks otherwise and is working on technologies that can explore the subconscious to prove the value of dreams.

A team of researchers at the MIT Dream Lab, founded in 2017, is working on an open-source wearable device that can track and interact with dreams in various ways, including giving you new control over the content of your dreams.

To do this, Dream Lab, which was established in 2017 as a division of MIT’s Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, believes that dreams are not just random mental fog, but when enhanced, modified, or ‘hacked’, they can have positive effects on our waking lives by being used as access points to deeper levels of consciousness. Accordingly, it is developing new and open-source wearable devices that track and interact with dreams in various ways.

Dr. Horowitz, from the team that developed the wearable glove-like device Dormio , explains: “There are actionable things you can do at night to boost memory, enhance creativity, improve your mood the next day, or improve performance.”

Speaking of Dormio, it is a glove-like wearable device that aims to increase your creativity by exploiting hypnagogia (the semi-conscious state just before falling asleep). Dormio helps extend, influence, and capture this transitional state to provide users with access to fluid thinking and free associations.

As I mentioned before, the device is open source, and by using the bio-signal tracking software available on GitHub , it is theoretically possible for anyone to make their own Dormio glove.

Leaving aside the benefits of a sort of ‘Dream Hacking’ that sounds pretty cool to real life, can you imagine that we can do or be whatever we want? When I was a child, there were times when I realized that I was dreaming within a dream (Lucid Dreaming). While I could sustain it for a while, it was mostly left unfinished. Now, we are moving towards a future where technology comes to the rescue to enable us to do this for a long time and consciously. At least there are studies in this direction. Moreover, in a field where the objective, indisputable, and measurable data that science often needs are quite vague. I think one day, when science merges with the spirit, what we encounter will be things never imagined before.

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