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Oscar Roselló

audio — private.

If you want to, you can plot your biosignals to

see changes as you slip into sleep. Figure

shows what a typical descent into hypnagogia

with wakeups and dream reports looks like.

DREAM ON!

You now have a basic interface that will let you

change your dream content! We suggest you use

this device during a nap, and that you make sure to

set a clear intention to dream about your chosen

dream theme before you lie down, even saying out

loud why you want to dream of that theme.

You may have to tweak things to get this whole

hypnagogic incubation practice right — from

your bedtime to the volume of your audio —

because this is not an exact science. But though

it is inexact, it is an ancient, important, human

practice; dream incubation has been used for

at least 4,000 years to seek answers to life’s

questions, to find creative inspiration, and to heal.

These are your dreams, and this is your

dreamscape, so explore what you will! Maybe you

want to have dreams of Batman, and Beyoncé,

and more power to you. Maybe you want to travel

inside your favorite video game, or to your favorite

planet, all in your own imagination. Please, do tell

us how it goes.

GOING FURTHER

Dormio V3 is only built for tracking and changing

sleep onset, a tiny slice of the overall experience

of sleep and dreams. Want to go further?

• Try and build something that tracks a different

sleep stage (maybe an eye tracker that can

capture REM sleep) and see if you can change

your dreams in a later stage. We built a

different device aimed at REM that looks like a

sleep mask (media.mit.edu/projects/masca), if

you want inspiration, and wrote a paper about

it for a class project (ethanweber.me/sleep/

Human_2_0_Paper.pdf).

• Think more about the comfort and attachment

of the Dormio device on the hand. Build a better

housing or a better PCB fixture than velcro.

We’d love to see your ideas and inspirations, let

us know at [email protected]!

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