Name: These Sleep Engineers Could Help You Hack Your Dreams
Uploaded: 2019-04-13T08:27:20.000Z
Duration: 6 min 29 s
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WE ALL SPEND ROUGHLY
A THIRD OF OUR LIVES ASLEEP

ACCESSING DREAM WORLDS IN OUR SUBCONSCIOUS

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JUDITH AMORES AND THE ENGINEERS, NEUROSCIENTISTS, AND DESIGNERS SHE WORKS WITH

AT MIT'S MEDIA LAB,
DUBBED “THE DREAM TEAM,"

ARE WORKING TO DECODE THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND.

BUT THESE ARE NO ORDINARY SLEEP SCIENTISTS.

THEY DON'T JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE

THAT SLEEP AND DREAMS CAN PLAY IN OUR LIVES;

THEY THINK WE CAN ACTUALLY TINKER WITH IT.

SLEEP HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED 
NOT ONLY FOR BEING THERAPEUTIC,

VISIONARIES LIKE NIKOLA TESLA 
HAVE USED HYPNAGOGIA,

TO DOZE THEIR WAY TO SOME 
OF THE WORLD'S MOST ICONIC

TO HARNESS THIS POTENTIAL, 
THE DREAM TEAM IS EXPLORING

THE WORLD OF 'HUMAN-MACHINE SYMBIOSIS...'

THAT IS, DESIGNING TECHNOLOGY
INTENDED FOR SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

AND IF THAT SOUNDS STRAIGHT OUT OF SCI-FI…

TRIGGERS A ROBOTIC VOICE TO READ YOU
AN AUDIO CUE OR CREATIVE PROMPT

IN YOUR SLEEP, AND RECORDS
YOUR MUMBLED RESPONSE.

BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR SLEEP STATES 
BEYOND HYPNAGOGIA?

THE DREAM TEAM IS DEVELOPING 
ADDITIONAL PROTOTYPES

TO ANALYZE EVEN MORE OF
YOUR BODY'S BIOLOGICAL CUES.

A DEEP LEARNING COMPUTER MODEL THEN DECIPHERS THIS INFORMATION

TO DETERMINE WHAT STAGE 
OF SLEEP A PERSON IS IN.

TARGETING ONE OR MORE OF THESE SLEEP STAGES

COULD BE LIKE FINDING THE SECRET ENTRANCE 
TO YOUR OWN SUBCONSCIOUS.

THE CHALLENGE IS ACTUALLY OPENING THAT DOOR
WITHOUT WAKING YOU UP.

SO THE DREAM TEAM IS ON THE HUNT FOR SIGNALS
OR STIMULI THAT CAN DO JUST THAT.

AND JUDITH HAS SNIFFED OUT A PARTICULARLY
USEFUL TOOL: OUR SENSE OF SMELL.

DURING YOUR SLEEP, THIS DEVICE COULD
BE PROGRAMMED TO RELEASE A SCENT

FAMILIAR TO YOU, THAT YOU'VE ALREADY ASSOCIATED WITH A LEARNED BEHAVIOR

SUCH AS SMELLING ROSE WHILE YOU 
STUDY A NEW LANGUAGE.

THE TOYS AND TOOLS DREAMED UP
IN THE MEDIA LAB ARE USUALLY

MAKING IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE
TO GET THE RESULTS THEY WANT

WHETHER IT'S FACING YOUR FEARS
IN A DREAM, BREAKING A BAD HABIT,

AND FOR JUDITH AND HER TEAM, PAVING THE WAY
FOR THAT MUTUAL SYMBIOSIS WITH TECHNOLOGY

THIS EPISODE WAS PRESENTED 
BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE.

FOR MORE EPISODES OF SCIENCE IN THE EXTREMES,

AND COME BACK TO SEEKER FOR MORE EPISODES.

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