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COCOON – A Modern Lucid Dream Machine – By the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Brit — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:21:24 +0000

“…Cocoon tracks three sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tension, heart rate, and movement data…Cocoon uses ongoing platforms we developed including Open Sleep , Fluid BCI and Rem Mask…

…External stimuli in the form of scent, audio and muscle stimulation direct the content of the dreams. We use Dormio to detect the state between sleep and wake (Hypnagogia), influencing visual and idea generation using audio. We use Essence to alter the emotional content of dreams and memory consolidation during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and Deep Sleep. We use Electronight to administer muscle stimulation to arms and legs and change the kinesthetic content of dreams…

…Crossing boundaries both disciplinary and experiential, Cocoon offers an embodied investigation of one’s own consciousness, a philosophy in the flesh: With it users can observe and engage the torsion of their senses, see and shape dreams which are otherwise entirely uncontrollable, unlinked, and unseen” – Engineeringdreams – Dream Lab – “The Dream Lab is an initiative from the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab” – MIT Media Lab – Engineering Dreams

Project Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering – https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/cocoon/overview/

DORMIO – A DEVICE TO INDUCE CREATIVITY, INFLUENCE MICRODREAMS AND EXTRACT INFORMATION DURING HYPNAGOGIA

Brit — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:57:25 +0000

“As the hand and head sensors detect that the person’s muscles are relaxing and brain waves are changing as they fall asleep, it triggers a nearby Jibo robot to say a preprogrammed phrase…

…Horowitz said the third generation will work just by monitoring eyelid movement in sleeping subjects.“ – Motherboard – https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia

“We initiate automatic audio recording alongside interruption, allowing users to speak their dreams in semi-lucid states, not waking themselves up entirely to issue reports…

…The technology that drives Dormio is open source. That means the software for our biosignal tracking is on Github. ..And Tomás, who led that build, wrote about it step by step here. You can, for now, build yourself one. – Media – https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview/#faq-is-this-dreaming-what-is-stage-1-sleep

“HYPNAGOGIA, also referred to as “hypnagogic hallucinations”, is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep… Mental phenomena that may occur during this “threshold consciousness” phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations and, sleep paralysis.” – Wikipedia

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Dormio: Interfacing with DreamsAdam Haar Horowitz, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, Pattie MaesCHI ’18:…

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Hypnagogia And Hypnopompia

Brit — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 07:00:08 +0000

About the cool phenomenon of hypnagogia (the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep)…how to experience it, how to stay in it, how to experiment with it (“start napping with your arm raised in the air”,) and how to use hypnopompia (morning linger) to remember your dreams (“…putting your body into the posture it was in when you had that dream”.)

Click here to read it: liminaldreaming.com/

Hypnagogic Hallucinations

Brit — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 20:36:25 +0000

“Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep in humans: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep. Mental phenomena that occur during this “threshold consciousness” phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis….

…Sights

Among the more commonly reported,^[9]^[10] and more thoroughly researched, sensory features of hypnagogia are phosphenes which can manifest as seemingly random speckles, lines or geometrical patterns, including form constants, or as figurative (representational) images.

Tetris effect

People who have spent a long time at some repetitive activity before sleep, in particular one that is new to them, may find that it dominates their imagery as they grow drowsy, a tendency dubbed the Tetris effect. This effect has even been observed in amnesiacs who otherwise have no memory of the original activity…

Sounds

Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, like knocking and crash and bangs (exploding head syndrome).

Sleep paralysis

Humming, roaring, hissing, rushing, zapping, and buzzing noises are frequent in conjunction with sleep paralysis. This happens when the REM atonia sets in sooner than usual, before the person is fully asleep, or persists longer than usual, after the person has (in other respects) fully awoken.^[15]

Other sensations

Gustatory, olfactory and thermal sensations in hypnagogia have all been reported, as well as tactile sensations (including those kinds classed as paresthesia or formication).

Cognitive and affective phenomena

…something that you agreed with in a state of Hypnagogia may seem completely ridiculous to you in an awake state. Hypnagogia may involve a “loosening of ego boundaries … openness, sensitivity.., Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent dreams. he alpha wave stage and later in theta.” – Wikipedia

Below are excerpts from an interesting article – “Hypnagogic Hallucinations: Causes, Types, & Treatment” in Mental Health Daily.

“…During hypnagogic hallucinations, it is believed that brain waves transition from fast-paced, high frequency waves to slower-paced, low frequency waves…

…If a person wants to extend the hypnagogic hallucinatory state, they’ll typically increase theta frequencies…

..Pineal DMT: Due to the fact that hypnagogic hallucinations have been associated with paranormal phenomena, some have speculated that the brain releases DMT (dimethyltryptamine) via the pineal gland. ..

– mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/05/16/hypnagogic-hallucinations-causes-types-treatment/ …

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