CONTROLLING DREAMS CLOSER TO REALITY

Scientists from MIT claim to have found a way to implant ideas in the minds of people as they fall asleep to create bizarre and abstract dreams. An “Inception”, if you will. The researchers used the “targeted dream incubation” to guide people’s dreams towards particular themes by repeating information during the first stage of sleep. That stage is called hypnagogia, which is responsible for dreams about psychedelic phenomena. The technology consists of a wrist-worn electronic device that tracks sleep, connected to an app that delivers audio prompts during hypnagogia. The researchers influenced the dreams of most of its study participants to dream about a tree during the earliest stage of sleep during the trials. One MIT computer scientist also used the system to make himself dream about the chocolate fountain seen in the classic 1971 film ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.’
* Scarlett Johansson is right there for the dreaming, and this idiot goes for the chocolate fountain in Willy Wonka. Pffft…nerds.
* Although Scarlett Johansson could have stepped out of the chocolate fountain all sweet and slippery …
* The next breakthrough is making you dream that you know all the material when you show up naked for your college final.
* Never mind controlling dreams. What about bedwetting? Oh – was that out loud?
* Alright, guys, you’ve done the “Inception” thing. Now do the hoverboard from “Back to the Future.”