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DxE 2026
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Engineering Dreams Using Anesthesia - Pilleriin Sikka
The Interplay Between Sleep, Addiction, and Society - Pouya Azar
Neuroscience and Legal System - Judy Edersheim
Democratizing Consciousness: Engaging the Dream World on Its Terms - Andrew Holecek
Eliciting Meaningful Encounters within Lucid Dreams - Michelle Carr
Under the Dream: Somatic Cinema and the Future Stakes for Our Minds at Night - Saelyx Finna
The Role of the Artist in Unconscious Media - Jed DeMoss
Dreaming as Ethical Decision-making - Suzanne Kite
To Read
Are advertisers coming for your dreams?
An article covering our involvement with the scientific community in combatting dream researching being used for advertising
Science MagazineScientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’
Dreaming experiments involved real-time conversations between sleepers and scientists
Science MagazineNight Shifts– Can technology shape our dreams?
A Harper's Magazine Article about a reporter's experience with Dormio, facilitated by Adam Haar Horowitz.
Harpers MagazineThe New Science of Controlling Dreams
“Engineering” sleeping consciousness could reduce nightmares, treat insomnia—and even induce specific dreams just for fun.
Scientific AmericanThe Interview: Carsten Höller & Adam Haar
The artist and the scientist are planning a new kind of sculpture – made of visitors’ dreams
ArtReview MagazineMeet the Researchers Who Can Engineer Your Dreams
The tech is called “targeted dream incubation”—and it changes everything we know about sleep
The WalrusArt and Data Team Up Against Climate Change
Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of survival.
The New York TimesWhy your most creative ideas may come after a night of sleep
Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.
The Washington PostDoes sleeping on an idea work? Here’s what science says.
Scientists are finding experimental evidence that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a portal for creative thought.
The Washington PostBehind the Veil of Hypnogogic Sleep
Research on “creativity’s sweet spot” could inform treatments for people with nightmare disorders.
Harvard Medical Magazine
To Watch
Sleep scientist on new book, “Nightmare Obscura”
ABC News’ Andrew Dymburt speaks with author and Univ. of Montreal sleep scientist Michelle Carr about her book “Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind.”
Resonance Library
Check out a library of projects that use our research.
Dream Glove Boosts Creativity During Sleep
Our work at MIT showed that incubating dreams during early sleep can change your waking creative performance.Boreal Dreams
Collaborating with Sound Artist Matt McCorkle and Dream Scientist Adam Haar, Steensen has created a boreal song designed to be listened to for up to 8 hours.Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation
A research paper exploring how sensory stimulation technologies, particularly those from Virtual Reality (VR), can be applied to sleep and dream engineering.Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced memory consolidation: Replication in an overnight sleep study
After trying to solve a maze, participants slept -- and people who dreamed about the maze improved dramatically more than those who slept but did not dream about it.Flying Dream Bed
A sculptural installation at Art Basel that allows the viewer to experience flying dreams.Night Shifts
Dreams have inspired artists and spiritual leaders throughout history — now technology is making it possible to shape them on purpose.Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind
Taika Waititi and Xbox - Power Your Dreams
Collaboration with Xbox + Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi having pro Xbox gamers dream of being inside their favorite video game using Targeted Dream Incubation and then using these dreams to create a short film. Winner Webby Award, Andy Award. 500 million impressions, 640k engagements.The dream makers: The experimental new field of dream engineering
The Relationship Between Dreams and Subsequent Morning Mood Using Self-Reports and Text Analysis
The science of dreams: why do we dream, and can we learn to control them? With Dr Michelle Carr
This Kansas City researcher says dream engineering could help people heal from trauma
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them.Why your most creative ideas may come after a night of sleep
Xbox and NFL - Made from Dreams
A collab with NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. where we used the Dormio technique to incubate targeted dreams and make a “Dream Kit” including a custom pair of Nike Air Force 1 Low sneakers and designs for a wireless controller inspired by his dreams.