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The Neuroscience of Inception

This entire post is a spoiler. Stop reading if you have not seen Inception, because 1) I will reveal major plot points and 2) It will make no sense. The literary critic Frank Kermode famously argued that all successful works of art have the ability to inspire multiple interpretations. We read the classics, he said,…

Movies Jonah Lehrer - Wired

The greatest dream cities in science fiction and fantasy

In scifi heist Inception, mind hackers build dreams where they con their marks into giving up valuable information. The most important mind hacker is the Architect, who creates dream cities. Where have we seen great scifi dream cities before? Remember, the cities we see in Inception are basically virtual spaces created by the mind hackers,…

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Inception: Peering Into the Science of Dreams

Inception is a complex sci-fi thriller that lies somewhere between a James Bond film and The Matrix. We’ve assembled a spoiler-free guide to the science of the movie, and all you need to know about dreams and the unconscious mind. In Inception, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a dream snatcher. He’s an industrial spy, who…

Tech News Rowan Hooper - New Scientist

Why we evolved the ability to dream

At a recent scientific meeting, Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett explained why dreams are useful, and how they evolved. Unlike Sigmund Freud, who famously observed that dreams are wish-fulfillments, Barrett thinks dreams serve a useful purpose in the real world. They are a realm where humans solve problems – especially visual problems. Live Science reports: A…

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The motherlode of bewildering, intense Inception images

Christopher Nolan rocked our brains with The Dark Knight, and it looks like he’ll do it again with his new film, Inception. Dozens of high-res stills and poster images just went online, giving us our best look at this film. Warner Bros. released its motherlode of official promo pics and poster art from Inception, along…

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Pepsi’s Dream Machine Kiosk Awards Points for Recycled Bottles

Pepsi and Waste Management are teaming up to make every kid’s on-the-go recycling dream come true with Dream Machine, a giant, computerized recycling bin that doles out points for returned bottles. Because who needs deposits when you can have dreams. The internet-connected kiosks will be installed at places like stadiums, parks, and and gas stations…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Breaking Down Inception’s Dream Logic and Water Imagery

Yesterday, we showed you the second trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s dream-theft thriller Inception, jam-packed with surreal images and lots and lots of water. We give you the shot-for-shot breakdown to aid in your speculation. Spoilers ahead. https://gizmodo.com/nolan-floods-your-brain-with-dark-surrealism-in-new-inc-5435686 In today’s morning spoilers, we linked to eating class‘s analysis of the new trailer. Here’s our shot-for-shot breakdown…

Movies Lauren Davis

Why Are Thousands of People Dreaming About This Man?

Have you dreamed about this man comforting or befriending you over the past two years? Then you are one of thousands across the world who have dreamed “this man.” Now they have set up a website to describe their experiences. According to the This Man website, set up to bring together the people who have…

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New Technology Could Display Your Dreams on Screen

A research team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan has successfully displayed simple images produced in the human brain on a computer screen. Dream recorder anyone? In a nutshell, the device converts electrical signals sent to the visual cortex into images that can be viewed on a computer screen. In their experiment, they…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the color of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those…

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DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams

There’s a Lucid Dream Machine sleeping mask on Instructables that pulses LEDs in your eyelids four hours after you fall asleep, waking you up just enough to notice your dreams and control their outcomes. The mask requires a fair bit of soldering and programming experience, so it isn’t for DIY luddites like me. Which is…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Sleep Waking Dream Enacting Robot Will Get You Dumped, Fired, Arrested, Punched in the Wiener

Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have teamed up on a neat project, which involves a robot logging and re-enacting dreams of a human subject. Brainwave patterns and eye movements during dozing will be monitored, depending on what is logged, the robot will alter its behavior accordingly. Sure, this is not dream enactment proper, but it…

Tech News Haroon Malik

LED Mask Lets You Control Your Dreams

How many times have you had a dream you wish you could’ve changed? For me, that happens at least twice a month. Enter the Cerebrex dream mask. The idea is pretty simple. The mask has built-in LEDs that blink at night to remind your sleeping self that you’re in fact dreaming. Supposedly, that “awareness” is…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

The Neuroscience of Inception

The greatest dream cities in science fiction and fantasy

Inception: Peering Into the Science of Dreams

Why we evolved the ability to dream

The motherlode of bewildering, intense Inception images

Pepsi’s Dream Machine Kiosk Awards Points for Recycled Bottles

Breaking Down Inception’s Dream Logic and Water Imagery

Why Are Thousands of People Dreaming About This Man?

New Technology Could Display Your Dreams on Screen

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams

Sleep Waking Dream Enacting Robot Will Get You Dumped, Fired, Arrested, Punched in the Wiener

LED Mask Lets You Control Your Dreams

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