{"id":10979,"date":"2020-09-26T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:52:22","slug":"dreams-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/26\/dreams-on-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams On-demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/scientists-figure-out-how-plant-22744977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Real-life Inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at MIT have been testing a fascinating new technique called targeted dream incubation, which allows them to insert certain topics into someone else&#8217;s dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/authors\/sophie-bateman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sophie Bateman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VKp7jHqwGKA\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It may sound like the plot of Inception, but scientists have figured out how to plant ideas into other people&#8217;s dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at MIT Media Lab&#8217;s Fluid Interfaces have been testing a new technique called targeted dream incubation (TDI), which allows them to insert certain topics into someone&#8217;s dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past studies have shown that when sleepers enter a rare dream state known as lucid dreaming, they gain awareness that they&#8217;re dreaming and can thus have some control over what happens in their mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TDI achieves a similar result by targeting people during hypnagogia, a semi-lucid dream state that occurs as someone is falling asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/scientists-figure-out-how-plant-22744977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Real-life Inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams Researchers at MIT have been testing a fascinating new technique called targeted dream incubation, which allows them to insert certain topics into someone else&#8217;s dreams By Sophie Bateman It may sound like the plot of Inception, but scientists have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}