Story 1 begins — interactive dream engineering (lucid REM)

1:26lot of times. There's been a lot of problem solving that's happened during sleep. Inception is in the public zeitgeist about like, you know, influencing dreams. And it turns out there's more truth to that than previously thought. >> That's so crazy. Like we're getting into the science fiction realm where we are able to now influence with dreams, interact with them, and then help the people who we interacted with in those dreams solve problems that they previously didn't solve before. >> It's unbelievable. >> It's it's pretty insane, dude. And the scientific evidence for like a lot of this like dreams influencing your

2:07reality the next day. It's been elusive and it's been challenging because you know we can't really systematically manipulate dreams until now. [laughter] That's the idea. There's this new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University and what it does is validate the possibility of influencing dreams and it's really supporting this theory that like REM sleep which is when dreams occur that stage of sleep when dreams occur it might actually be especially conducive to helping individuals come up with creative solutions to problems. >> This is so fascinating. I mean even the idea of saying the phrase dream engineering. >> Yeah. No, that seems like something out

2:48of a Chris Nolan movie, but now it's like actually real. There's there's a science paper >> that's out, [laughter] right? So, as always, let's start with some of the history. Yes. Dreams have always been viewed as sacred, as this kind of psychological gateway into the subconscious mind. The Egyptians literally had sleep temples for sleep and incubation rituals and they used to