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“...Inception, the SyFy thriller from the director of the Dark Knight, was number one by far, taking in more than $60 million, for Warner Bros. This is the third win this year Warner Bros. Leonardo DeCaprio’s star power and some strong reviews helped to spur ticket sales...”  (The Washington Post)

Christopher Nolen’s decade dreamt movie, “Inception,” topped the box office this weekend. The movie has many wondering “is this dream technology possible?”

While experts say the technology to steal and plant ideas in other peoples’ dreams isn’t yet possible, the concept comes from extensive research in lucid dreams, that's according to the director of the non-profit DREAMS Foundation. 

“...that same signal can start marking in time what a dreamer is doing. So he might be relaxed, do a little eye signal,  and then there’s other physiological measurements going on like his legs, heart-rate, breathing. And he starts dream skiing, or starts doing whatever activity. And research has proven that pretty much, the whole body is following the same type of pattern, same type of training, as if it were doing the same waking activity. In other words, we’re learning to ski as we dream ski...” (MoJo)

Movie Web suggests controlling the dream world might just take some training.

“...Once someone’s aware they’re dreaming, they can actively participate in the dream, sometimes even change it. Usually, when you’re aware that you’re dreaming, you wake up, but we have techniques that can train someone to stay in the dream. And with enough practice, one could stay in a dream for an extended period of time...”

While understanding lucid dreaming has been proven possible, controling other peoples’ dreams may not be too far off in the future. A professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and editor of "The New Science of Dreaming" tells ABC News:

"We already see content like, it looks like a person is working on math. Or the language centers are very active. It's not impossible that we would eventually have some technology to both manage what's going on in a dream and influence what people dream about."

According to Pocket-Lint, this findings reveals this is only the beginning. 

“Evidence points to something akin to an invisible 'Innernet' that connects us all, much as the Internet links us in the physical world, and shows that more and more people are using dreams and lucid dreaming to explore this fascinating inner frontier and tap its amazing potential.”

So do you think shared dreaming will one day be possible? And, do we really wanna go there?

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WRITER: Jenn Ballard
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