MIT News  May 15, 2023 Recent scientific findings suggest that sleep onset (known as N1) may be an ideal brain state for creative ideation. However, the specific link between N1 dream content and creativity has remained unclear. A team of researchers in the US (MIT, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) investigated the contribution of N1 dream content to creative performance by administering targeted dream incubation (a protocol that presents auditory cues at sleep onset to introduce specific themes into dreams) and collected dream reports to measure incorporation of the selected theme into dream content. They assessed creative performance using a […]