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Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams

By Mindy Weisberger 

MIT scientists have figured out how to manipulate your dreams by combining an app with a sleep-tracking device called Dormio. In their new study, the researchers were able to insert certain topics into a person's dreams, with some pretty bizarre outcomes.

To do so, the researchers at MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces—a group that develops wearable systems and interfaces to enhance cognitive skills—used a technique called targeted dream incubation (TDI). 

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