New free iPhone app to influence your dreams. Cool!

[Kablooie]

Dream:ON is a new app released last week to influence your dreams and chart your sleep patterns.

You put the iPhone on your bed at night and it senses your movements to monitor your sleep pattern. When it senses that you are dreaming it plays one of a set of soundscapes to influence your dream.

When you wake you can write up your dreams and send them to and experimental 'Dream Bank' for future research.

I tried it and it seemed to work. I picked a crowd sound and all my dreams involved being in large groups of people. In the morning there was a graph showing my level of sleep all during the night and it looked pretty accurate based on what I remembered.



It's headed up by Richard Wiseman, Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

More information here:

http://www.dreamonapp.com/

[longship]

1. Wiseman is smart and funny

I love his work. He has been a guest on Skeptics Guide to the Universe several times.

SGU Archive

Highly recommended.

[Kablooie]

2. He's got a great, entertaining blog too.

Check it out:

http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/blog-2/

He does research on things like perception of illusions, lying, and other fascinating psychological quirks.

[Ian David]

3. I fell asleep watching the River Monsters marathon on Animal Planet the other night.

I had a dream I was being attacked by a giant fist, and ended up hitting my wife.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

5. I fell asleep during that marathon as well

In my dream, every time my sister opened her mouth to say something those jumping carp would all jump from the water at her. This would make her scream and that just made more jump at her.

It would have been a fun dream except that I have real bad migraines and my sister's voice just happens to be in a range that makes them worse. So while it was hilarious (my dad and I laughing our assess off at her troubles) it was also making my headache worse in the dream. It then got so bad that I woke up and still had the headache.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Does it have a "children working in factories" sound?

[Kablooie]

7. I don't think so but you might enjoy the "chased by a huge diesel train" sound.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. Because Apple exploits trains?