ArticleConsciousness and cognition2020
Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device.
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- Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset can influence later dream content in REM sleep: a pilot study.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
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- Comparison of autonomic reactivity to trauma and nightmare imagery: A Pilot Study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Article
- Targeted dream incubation at a distance: the development of a remote and sensor-free tool for incubating hypnagogic dreams and mind-wandering.Frontiers in sleep · 2024Article
- A comprehensive study on the efficacy of a wearable sleep aid device featuring closed-loop real-time acoustic stimulation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- What's behind deliberation? The effect of task-related mind-wandering on post-incubation creativity.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The hypnagogic state: A brief update.Journal of sleep research · 2023Review
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- Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot.Science advances · 2021Article
- Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation.Consciousness and cognition · 2020Review
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Abstract
Information processing during sleep is active, ongoing and accessible to engineering. Protocols such as targeted memory reactivation use sensory stimuli during sleep to reactivate memories and demonstrate subsequent, specific enhancement of their consolidation. These protocols rely on physiological, as opposed to phenomenological, evidence of their reactivation. While dream content can predict post-sleep memory enhancement, dreaming itself remains a black box. Here, we present a novel protocol using a new wearable electronic device, Dormio, to automatically generate serial auditory dream incubations at sleep onset, wherein targeted information is repeatedly presented during the hypnagogic period, enabling direct incorporation of this information into dream content, a process we call targeted dream incubation (TDI). Along with validation data, we discuss how Dormio and TDI protocols can serve as tools for controlled experimentation on dream content, shedding light on the role of dreams in the overnight transformation of experiences into memories.
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