Michelle Carr

I mean, there's already, of course, a lot of like apps and ways to just record your dreams and follow like maybe different visualizations you can practice before sleep to influence dreams.

But in our lab, we're pretty interested in new wearable EEG technologies.

So these are like wearable headbands that you can use during sleep.

They're getting better at being able to detect sleep stages in real time.

And this means that we would be able to not only measure someone's sleep at home, but potentially use these types of wearable headbands to actually potentially influence sleep

as it's occurring using different types of sensory stimulation.

Yeah, there is one, I think, app and wearable technology that's designed to maybe detect when you're basically when you're showing signs of arousal during sleep, which they're using as kind of a proxy for maybe you're experiencing a nightmare.

And when they detect this state of arousal, they might present a vibration stimulus, which awakens you a little bit and it interrupts the nightmare as it's occurring.

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