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How to Hack Your Dreams
Improve your life by learning to lucid dream.
One-third of your life is spent in bed and for most of us, this time is wasted. You could be learning a new skill, boosting your creativity, or fulfilling your deepest desires.
Lucid dreaming is the ability to become aware that you are dreaming which allows you to control what you experience. You can have conversations with historical figures, solve problems, or visit other planets.
This isn’t some New Age mumbo-jumbo. Scientists are building devices to hack into the world of our slumbers, a vast untapped resource of potential.
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the Dormio glove which prompts sleepers with a one-word cue when the slip into hypnagogia, the state between awake and not-quite asleep. Other scientists are investigating a host of pharmaceuticals to promote lucid dreaming.
While these new devices may speed up the process, no assistance is necessary.
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