Yiou + Alice
The Insomniac Double
Mobilized surgically by the naturally inhibited motor cortex, the dreaming cat was found to be more or less stalking preys. (Michel Jouvet) What would you do if you set yourself loose during your dream?
Neurogaming | Art | Trans-Consciousness Game | AR/VR
Day and dream: across different states of consciousness.
The dreamer puppeteers the animated character as their double.
Drawings & sculpture of his dreams, by Thomas Lyon Mills
If you have experience in:
- BCI Research/Brain Signal Collection
- EEG Data Analysis & Processing
- Unity or Unreal
Consciousness is Tied to Dynamic Stability
Stable system:
more instability
less instability
Unstable/chaotic system:
How similar is dreaming to waking consciousness?
Audiovisual cue integration
no sound continuous motion
with sound small discontinuity
mandatory cue integration occurs
combined percept is different from what we would perceive from only vision
Audiovisual cue integration
alternative explanation for sound can also break cue integration
sound is attributed to second cube
cue integration is sensitive to reasoning and physical constraints
Does this change during dreaming?
Is integration less constrained during sleeping?
temporal mismatch breaks cue integration
Stability
Loosened crossmodal perception
Instability
Stability
Loosened crossmodal perception
Instability
Constrained crossmodal perception
Contact:
dlatorre@mit.edu
eisenaj@mit.edu
Vision for the project
A human-consciousness-machine interaction system: conversation between machine and conscious. An art project envisioning machine mediated dreaming for augmented creativity. By layering up the idea from both human dream and machine generated text, this system helps make the initial ideas become divergent. For visualization part we will use CLIP diffusion to generate image based on text. Finally, we build up a VR dream world that is ‘dreamed’ by human and machine together.
Steps you will take to develop the experiments
Build the dream incubation system that
News in the form of expected outputs/outcomes from the experiment
Collaborative dream/ideation between human and machine
Divergent & augmented ideation based on dream & ML
Contribution which contextualizes your work relative to the field
#Dream–ML-Generated Art #AugmentedCreativity #SleepOnset
Human-Consciousness-Machine Interaction for Augmented Creativity
Marc + Aria
Visual Impairment and Circadian Rhythm Disorders
Non-24-Hour Sleep–Wake Disorder
Many people who are blind or visually impaired have difficulty aligning their sleep-wake cycle with a 24-hour day. Currently, about 1 million Americans are legally blind (with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse) – a figure that may double by 2050. Among those, approximately 10% are totally blind, with no light perception at all. And as many as 70% report having trouble sleeping at night as well as trouble staying awake and functional during waking hours.
For the final project, we plan to work on a headset designed specifically to improve sleep quality during long flights, helping people cope with jet lag. We have attached the early design of the headset that utilizes light and other ambient factors to regulate sleep on flights, protecting the circadian cycle of passengers.
We have another potential project: how to design an office nap pillow/ sleep mask that maximizes sleeping quality during daytime nap? Some people often report tiredness after a nap, especially during working hours. This phenomena is called sleep inertia, and it is shown that sleep inertia after naps will significantly jeopardize working efficiency. Thus, understanding daytime nap and helping people avoid bad naps is a less studied yet crucial topic. Since most people take naps during the day, we figured the most pervasive and seamless intervention is the pillow (specifically, the office nap pillow: https://www.amazon.com/office-nap-pillow/s?k=office+nap+pillow).
Davide + Hye Jun + Alejandro
“Stream of dream consciousness”
How do we see the unseeable? How do we connect not only our waking selves, but also our dreaming states of consciousness? We are proposing an interactive installation that visualizes dreams in VR. Real-time EEG data of a sleeping participant is transmitted and visualized in real-time in the VR headset of a waking person. The waking person can in turn manipulate the visualization through gestural interactions, which feeds back to the sleeping person through a sensory stimulus. We are also interested in expanding this interactive stream of dream consciousness beyond the “self” and “the other” to incorporate “the collective” as well via projection or other spatial means.
Early visualization exploration
Diagram
Stages
Santiago + Maria
Santiago + Maria
Sleep Temperature
Literature
Current Technology
Our Extension
14
Kriti & Shreya
Sleep Posture
Current Technology
Our Extension
15
Kriti & Shreya
Lucid Dream Catcher
Kevin Gao
Democratization of Lucid Dream experience
REM sleep and creativity
The studies from Harvard and Germany suggest that NREM napping may improve memory and learning.
Sleep-learning
(Also known as hypnopædia, or hypnopedia) is an attempt to convey information to a sleeping person. I.e. Typical experiments involves sound playing, smells etc.
Lucid Dreaming Treatment for Insomnia
A pilot study shows how lucid dreaming impacts insomnia and mood symptoms.
Challenges
Challenges that made it impractical for interface building. Later-stage REM lucid dreaming requires a full night of sleep, not just a nap like hypnagogia, it’s extremely hard to capture the dreams without fully exit the dreamers from their sleeping stages.
Measurement
Real-time Stage 1 Sleep Detection and Warning System Using a Low-Cost EEG Headset.
Try the MILD and WBTB methods.
Try the dream logs.
Lucid Dreaming can be a truly profound experience, but is often difficult to explain to someone who has never done it.