Hakuhodo’s Future Technology Works creates app that controls dreams

Ad agency Hakuhodo’s Future Technology Works department has come up with a new app that controls your dreams. The Yumemiru (translated as ‘see the dream’) app lets users select different scenarios to dream about and then influences their thoughts through sound while they sleep. The free app has eight different scenarios to choose from including a walk in the forest, being at the beach, getting rich, flying and even for those romantically disposed a scenario that stimulates dreams of love tailored for both men and women. After selecting the type of dream you want to drift off into and putting the phone to sleep mode, the app runs in the background and detects the time passed before you go into REM, which is when you are at your most easily influenced. The app also has an alarm feature that will wake you up after your night of pre-determined dreaming and lets users share how good their dream was as a result of the app through social media.