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A SLEEP hacking glove has been created to track people’s dreams and store them in an app on their phone.
The team behind the device believes it could be used for therapeutic purposes and to strengthen people’s memory.
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The idea behind the invention is based on a decades-old exercise used by people like Salvador Dali and Thomas Edison, where the test subject falls asleep clutching a steel ball.
When sleep arrives, the subject drops the ball and its sound as it crashes to the floor would force the person into a semi-lucid dream state, before suddenly waking them up.
They would then immediately take note and draw whatever was on their mind during those seconds before waking up.
The goal of the device, dubbed Dormio, is to promote “hypnagogic micro dreams” that occur in the semi-lucid state right after a person has fallen asleep.
The sensors are wrapped around the user’s wrist and fingers, the device tracks muscle tone, heart rate, and skin conductance to identify various stages of sleep.
Dreaming is really just thinking at night.
Adam Horowitz
When the user falls into hypnagogy, the transition state between waking and sleeping, Dormio sends a Bluetooth signal to the person’s phone that plays a pre-recorded audio ‘wake word’ and records what it says in response, storing it in an app.
The company behind the kit, Dream Labs, has been testing the glove on around 50 people.
They go through this keyword test three times, before waking them up completely and asking them to write a story about their keyword.
The team found that users said the word came up in their dreams and that their stories were considered more creative than the other test subjects who had been given the same words, but were told to lie down and close their eyes. and don’t fall asleep.
Dream Lab researcher and doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adam Horowitz told OneZero: “Dreaming is really thinking at night. When you walk in, you walk out differently in the morning.”
People don’t know that a third of their life is a third where they could change or structure or improve themselves.
Dr. Horowitz
“But we have not been asking questions about the experience of that information transformation of the thoughts that guide it,” he added.
On average, humans spend a third of their lives sleeping.
Horowitz said: “People don’t know that a third of their lives is a third where they could change or structure or improve themselves.”
Scientists hope the device will help improve memory consolidation, emotional regulation, and overall mental health.
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Another Dream Lab researcher, Judith Amores, is working to alter what people dream of using smells.
Her device, BioEssence, is a diffuser worn around the neck with a monitoring device that measures the different stages of sleep.
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