We explore the application of a wide range of sensory stimulation technologies to the area of
sleep and dream engineering. We begin by emphasizing the causal role of the body in …

Current HCI research overlooks an opportunity to create human-machine interaction within
the unique cognition ongoing during dreams and drowsiness. During sleep onset, a window …

During lucid moments of a dream, the sleeper is aware of the dream as it is occurring, and
as a result can often perform predetermined actions within the dream. This provides a …

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual
reality generator that–through experience-dependent plasticity–becomes a generative or …

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by
the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of …

Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our
creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that …

Abstract Information processing during sleep is active, ongoing and accessible to
engineering. Protocols such as targeted memory reactivation use sensory stimuli during …

Many positions exist about the relationship between the sleeping body and the dreaming
body, and about the extent to which the dreamer is responsive to the outside world …

The idea that dreaming is a simulation of the waking world is currently becoming a far more
widely shared and accepted view among dream researchers. Several philosophers …

In this paper, I discuss the relationship between bodily experiences in dreams and the
sleeping, physical body. I question the popular view that dreaming is a naturally and …