Hack your dreams: MIT researchers built a wearable glove to encourage lucid dreaming
Dormio users wear a "hand worn sleep-stage tracking system" that keeps tabs on their heart rate, movement, and muscle tone to monitor their sleep stage as they drift off.
When Dormio detects that users are falling asleep, it plays a prerecorded audio cue that can be set in advance and records what they say in response.
The purpose is to harness people's "hypnagogia, a semi-lucid sleep state where we all begin dreaming before we fall fully unconscious," according to the researchers.
"Hypnagogia is characterized by phenomenological unpredictability, distorted perception of space and time, loss of sense of self, and spontaneous, fluid idea association," the researchers write.
The team at MIT says they want Dormio to be used to conduct more research into sleep and its relationship to memory, learning, and creativity.
Read more about Dormio and the MIT team behind it here.
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