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Dream Engineering —
#1 most powerful idea
of the 21st century

BBC Science Focus

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"I’ve been surprised to discover for myself that my own dreams are not in fact as boring or unremarkable as what I first thought. For years, I’ve basically written off an entire aspect of myself…."

Anand Jagatia, Reporter, BBC World Service

"Concentrating so hard on the experience of dreaming and having that guided experience had the effect of long lucid-dream training concentrated into a single night."

Laura Rysman, Reporter, NYT

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."
Grace Greenwald,
Woodworker, Educator
"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."
Karen Van Kampen,
Science Journalist
"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"
John Bambery,
Actor, The Met Opera
“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”
Paul Seli,
Professor, Duke University
“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”
Will Dowd,
Writer, Boston Globe
“The most impressive thing for me is the speed, super fast, 1/4 second images. And I feel I really needed it, like I was going in an unknown hard drive of my mind, and staying with what things I like. To check myself. With this experience you better understand the connections that make the world for you meaningful.”
Nicolas Becker,
Oscar Winning Sound Designer
“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”
Michael Clune,
Author, New Yorker

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."
Grace Greenwald,
Woodworker, Educator
"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."
Karen Van Kampen,
Science Journalist
"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"
John Bambery,
Actor, The Met Opera
“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”
Paul Seli,
Professor, Duke University
“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”
Will Dowd,
Writer, Boston Globe
“The most impressive thing for me is the speed, super fast, 1/4 second images. And I feel I really needed it, like I was going in an unknown hard drive of my mind, and staying with what things I like. To check myself. With this experience you better understand the connections that make the world for you meaningful.”
Nicolas Becker,
Oscar Winning Sound Designer
“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”
Michael Clune,
Author, New Yorker

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."
Grace Greenwald,
Woodworker, Educator
"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."
Karen Van Kampen,
Science Journalist
"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"
John Bambery,
Actor, The Met Opera
“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”
Paul Seli,
Professor, Duke University
“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”
Will Dowd,
Writer, Boston Globe
“The most impressive thing for me is the speed, super fast, 1/4 second images. And I feel I really needed it, like I was going in an unknown hard drive of my mind, and staying with what things I like. To check myself. With this experience you better understand the connections that make the world for you meaningful.”
Nicolas Becker,
Oscar Winning Sound Designer
“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”
Michael Clune,
Author, New Yorker

In our MIT studies, we guided 92% of people to dream of a specific topic chosen before bed.

See what people dream on purpose

Read about other dream accounts from people who have used Dormio.

"Fork" dream

A participant reports their hypnagogic dream.

Designing sneakers in a dream

Odell Beckham Jr. used dream incubation to create new Nike × Xbox designs.

Playing a game from the inside

Steve Saylor, a vision-impaired gamer, dreamed himself into his favorite game.

Target Areas

Dust’s technologies are focused on three verticals.

Dreams for creative joy

For centuries we’ve known dreams can strike and give sudden creative inspiration. We’ve shown you can guide your dreams purposefully towards the challenges you’re working on now, and boost creativity.

See the science

Dreams for creativity

Dreams for mental health

The feelings we have in our dreams influence our waking mood. What if you could lower the stress and increase the joy you experience every night?

See the science

Dreams for mental health

Dreams for learning

Science has shown that what we dream about predicts what we remember the next day. Reactivating memories at night can influence what we forget and what we don’t. We’re building tools to make this process simple, and put it in your hands.

See the science

Dreams for learning

Target Areas

Dust’s technologies are focused on three verticals.

Dreams for creative joy

See the science

Dreams for creativity

Dreams for mental health

Dreams for creativity

Dreams for learning

Dreams for creativity

Dream Collective

We’re constantly making new things in the name of research and culture change around dreams. These people make it happen.

Martin Schneider

Professor of Psychiatry, Principal Investigator

IDEO.org

Dr. Pattie Maes

Professor, Principal Investigator

MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Lab, Center for Neurobiological Engineering

Dr. David Eagleman

Guggenheim Fellow, Director

Stanford University, The Center for Science and Law, Inner Cosmos Podcast

Dr. Leslie Ellis

Registered Clinical Counsellor

Inward Bound Counseling, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Author, “A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy”

Dr. Michelle Carr

Professor, Principal Investigator, Dream Engineering Laboratory

University of Montreal, Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Westley Youngren

Principal Investigator, The Nocturnal Investigations of Traumatic Experiences (NITE) Lab

The University of Missouri - Kansas City

Dr. Karen Konkoly

Post-doctoral researcher, Cambridge University

Northwestern University Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz

Co-founder, DUST

Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School Center for Sleep and Cognition

Tomas Vega

Co-founder, DUST

MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Lab, Tactical Hybrid Ecologies Lab

THE EXTENDED NETWORK

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Guided by visionaries

Our advisors are scientists, artists, and educators pushing the boundaries of human experience and inner worlds.

Experiences

We’re using dream science to build art and culture as well, because dreams are so much more than what we can measure in a lab.

Dreams change us. We change dreams.

Dust changes how you sleep, what you dream, and who you are when you wake up.

Dust changes how you sleep, what you dream, and who you are when you wake up.

Remember, record, and understand your dreams with the Dust app.

Dream Engineering — #1 most powerful idea of the 21st century

Work featured in

"I’ve been surprised to discover for myself that my own dreams are not in fact as boring or unremarkable as what I first thought. For years, I’ve basically written off an entire aspect of myself…."

"Concentrating so hard on the experience of dreaming and having that guided experience had the effect of long lucid-dream training concentrated into a single night."

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."

"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."

"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"

“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”

“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”

“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."

"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."

"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"

“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”

“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”

“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”

"I think a dream to an insomniac will always be a gift; and these dreams in the dream bed in particular felt so special to receive. It brought me right back, for the first time since, to a month-long period of full color."

"I dreamt of trees. Many kinds of trees from different points in my life, connecting me to places and events from another time. Since my at-home dream experiment, I haven’t looked at a tree the same."

"It quickly became impossible to dream as anything else but Hamlet. In addition to learning the entire text with little effort I found that my experiencing was more easy and truthful than I had ever felt before"

“In dream states, we seem to be able to link things together that we normally wouldn’t connect, It’s like there’s an artist in my brain that I get to know through hypnagogia.”

“For the past year, I used lines of poetry as seeds to guide my dreams. What bloomed was a garden of dreams wilder and stranger than any reading experience could have conjured.”

“My Dormio-assisted adventures in hypnagogia showed me how unbelievably, compulsively, naturally, and irresistibly creative the mind becomes once it slips loose of conscious control.”

In our MIT studies, we guided 92% of people to dream of a specific topic chosen before bed.

See what people dream on purpose

"Fork" dream

"Fork" dream

Designing sneakers in a dream

Playing a game from the inside

Playing a game from the inside

Target Areas

Dreams for creative joy

Dreams for mental health

Dreams for learning

Target Areas

Dreams for creative joy

Dreams for mental health

Dreams for learning

Dream Collective

Martin Schneider

Dr. Pattie Maes

Dr. David Eagleman

Dr. Leslie Ellis

Dr. Michelle Carr

Dr. Westley Youngren

Dr. Karen Konkoly

Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz

Tomas Vega

Guided by visionaries

Experiences

Overnight Installations

Overnight Installations

Overnight Installations

Musical Experiences

Musical Experiences

Musical Experiences

Physical Spaces

Physical Spaces

Physical Spaces

Films

Films

Films

Discover what your dreams could be made of

Discover what your dreams could be made of

Discover what your dreams could be made of

Dreams change us.
We change dreams.

Dream Engineering —
#1 most powerful idea
of the 21st century