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2012-04-12

Would you program your dreams if you could? - Your Community

A British psychologist has launched an iPhone app that aims to give users the ability to select the type of dream they want to have before they go to sleep.

The inventor of Dream On, psychologist and author Richard Wiseman, calls it a mass participation experiment. Rather than promise that your iPhone (a version for Android phones is coming) can program your dreams, Wiseman says the Dream On will collect data so see if it's possible.

To use the app, you would plug in your iPhone and place it face down on your bed before you go to sleep. The app monitors your sleep patterns and movements and plays music and soundscapes according to your selection.

When you wake up, the app prompts you to write down your dream in a journal, with options to share your dream on Twitter and tag your Facebook friends if they appear in your dream.

Source: Would you program your dreams if you could? - Your Community

Dream:ON - The App to Influence Your Dreams

How does Dream:ON work?
Before going to bed you indicate the type of dream you would like to have and when you want to wake up. You then place your iPhone on your bed and go to sleep. Dream:ON then activates and begins monitoring your sleep pattern.

When Dream:ON senses that you are dreaming, it plays a 'soundscape' that has been carefully designed to help create your desired dream. Whilst your chosen soundscape is playing, Dream:ON continues to monitor your movement and adjusts the volume accordingly to ensure you're not woken up.
"We have created a new way of carrying out mass participation experiments. We still know relatively little about the science of dreaming and this app may provide a real breakthrough in changing how we dream, and record and track those dreams." ~ Professor Richard Wiseman

Source: Dream:ON - The App to Influence Your Dreams

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2010-06-18

Nap in style, Thats how google does it anyway!

A reporter found a alien like pod while visiting Google HQ’s in Mountain View. The Contraption you see, is a Mountain View Nap Pod or the EnergyPod, like they call it.

Collected from: Nap in style, Thats how google does it anyway!

Googlers Take Naps In Bizarre Contraption

How does Google keep its employees fresh for long days and nights of working? With sleep pods.

FT reporter Richard Waters was in Google's Mountain View headquarters yesterday and snapped this photo of an anonymous Googler catching some rest. When Richard walked past the pod later, he said a pair of female legs were sticking out from the pod.

This contraption is a MetroNap EnergyPod. Metronap says it "harnesses science and NASA technology" to deliver a refreshing nap for users.

Click here for more pictures and information on the EnergyPod

Collected from: Googlers Take Naps In Bizarre Contraption

The EnergyPod

The MetroNaps EnergyPod solves a contemporary problem: most work spaces do not offer their employees a place to rejuvenate. The result is that people seek rest in places not intended for it: at their desk, in a conference room, a parked car or even the bathroom.

Based on years of research and thousands of design hours, the MetroNaps EnergyPod is the perfect place to quickly and effectively enhance your energy. Designed to be installed almost anywhere, the EnergyPod is a self-contained productivity device.

Collected from: MetroNaps / The EnergyPod

EnergyPod

Key Features & Benefits

Room within a room
Inbuilt Bose sound system
Contemporary design
Zero gravity technology

Controlled nap timer
Gentle waking sequence
Privacy visor

Collected from: MetroNaps. Fatigue Management, accredited training and napping solutions for safety critical workplaces

Sources

Nap in style, Thats how google does it anyway!
http://igyaan.in/2010/06/18/nap-in-style-thats-how-google-does-it-anyway/
Googlers Take Naps In Bizarre Contraption
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-sleep-pods-2010-6
MetroNaps / The EnergyPod
http://www.metronaps.com/mn/the_metronaps_service/the_energypod
MetroNaps. Fatigue Management, accredited training and napping solutions for safety critical workplaces
http://www.metronaps.com.au/australia_files/products/energypod.aspx

40 Googlewinks | Tech Blog | FT.com
http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/06/40-googlewinks/
Google Employees Sleep In Alien-Like Pods
http://gizmodo.com/5566465/google-employees-sleep-in-alien+like-pods

The MetroNaps EnergyPod: For the Serious Power-Napper
http://www.luxist.com/2007/05/10/the-metronaps-energypod-for-the-serious-power-napper/

2008-06-18

Sleepwalking, Sleep texting and Sleep sex

We've all heard of sleepwalking but did you also know about sleep texting - sending text messages while asleep - and sleep sex?

clipped from www.switched.com

We've all heard of sleepwalkers -- people who wander the house (or neighborhood) at night completely unaware of what they're up to. There have been claims of other similarly motivated sleepers, too, like dozing drivers or even snoozing cooks, but a new supposed disorder has some experts crying foul: sleep texting, the act of sending text messages while asleep and without remembering a thing in the morning.

clipped from www.thestar.com

Is 'sleep-texting' for real?

Cellphone users send text messages while asleep – or so they claim

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Sleepwalkers who have 'sex sleep'

Imagine finding unexplained condoms around your house and then waking up one night to find your partner having sex with a stranger.
It might sound like an affair, but what if your "cheating" partner was fast asleep during the act?
The phenomenon, called sleep sex, was described to doctors at a meeting in Australia.

2008-06-11

Our Hormonal Alarm Clock

clipped from www.cnn.com

Morning person? -- It may be your body's natural alarm clock

Scientists have pinpointed hormones that trigger a 'wake-up' response in the brain

LUBECK, Germany (CNN) -- Why do some people automatically awake in the morning while others need an alarm to drag them out of bed? Blame it on an internal body clock. German researchers have pinpointed hormones that send a signal to the brain telling it to wake up.

The hormones, adrenocorticotropin or ACTH from the pituitary gland and cortisol from the adrenal gland, send a message that alerts the brain.

According to Professor Jan Born of the University of Lubeck in Germany, this may explain why some people can wake up "on time," without an alarm clock.

Hormones ACTH and cortisol together signals the brain that it's time for the body to wake up from sleep

clipped from www.nature.com

Timing the end of nocturnal sleep

Jan Born, Kirsten Hansen, Lisa Marshall, Matthias Mölle and Horst L. Fehm