ReviewConsciousness and cognition2020
Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Influencing dreams through sensory stimulation: A systematic review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Trait and state predictors of the intensity of emotions experienced in everyday dreams: a multilevel approach.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Future of Parasomnias.Journal of sleep research · 2025Review
- Lucid dreaming of a prior virtual-reality experience with ego-transcendent qualities: a proof-of-concept study.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- New strategies for the cognitive science of dreaming.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
- Impact of Pre-Sleep Visual Media Exposure on Dreams: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Non-Pharmacological Intervention for Personalizing Sleep Quality through Gentle Rocking Motion.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Dreaming outside the Box: Evidence for Memory Abstraction in REM Sleep.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The vision of dreams: from ontogeny to dream engineering in blindness.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Review
- The Relationship Between Dreams and Subsequent Morning Mood Using Self-Reports and Text Analysis.Affective science · 2022Article
- Multisensory Integration as per Technological Advances: A Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Charles Dickens' Hypnagogia, Dreams, and Creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device.Consciousness and cognition · 2020Article
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Abstract
We explore the application of a wide range of sensory stimulation technologies to the area of sleep and dream engineering. We begin by emphasizing the causal role of the body in dream generation, and describe a circuitry between the sleeping body and the dreaming mind. We suggest that nearly any sensory stimuli has potential for modulating experience in sleep. Considering other areas that might afford tools for engineering sensory content in simulated worlds, we turn to Virtual Reality (VR). We outline a collection of relevant VR technologies, including devices engineered to stimulate haptic, temperature, vestibular, olfactory, and auditory sensations. We believe these technologies, which have been developed for high mobility and low cost, can be translated to the field of dream engineering. We close by discussing possible future directions in this field and the ethics of a world in which targeted dream direction and sleep manipulation are feasible.
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