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06/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook

MIT researchers develop a machine that manipulates hypnagogia, the state between wakefulness and sleep

As we move from sharp awareness to restful sleep, we undergo hypnagogia, a state where we experience small but surreal dreams that escape our recollection when we wake up. In a Motherboard article, an MIT team reported how they developed a device that can access this dreamland. MIT Media Lab researcher Adam Horowitz led the efforts to create Dormio, […]

04/28/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Breaking up sleep into two parts, like they did before the Industrial Age, may cure insomnia

The invention of electricity has brought a lot of benefits, like powering appliances that make housework faster and easier for us. But it also created a group of people who find it hard to sleep at night. These insomniacs toss and turn in bed. They wake up at around two or three in the morning, […]

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