There is a new Japanese smartphone app braving unexplored territory with claims of the ability to control your dreams. Yumemiru--translated roughly as, "see the dream,"--utilizes your smartphone's built-in sensors to monitor your breathing throughout the night and detect the precise moment that you fall deep into REM sleep. When in REM sleep you not only tend to dream much more frequently, but your mind is much more susceptible to suggestion. Yumemiru takes advantage of this susceptible state with preselected soundtracks, designed to lead you on a pleasant journey of your choosing.
This free app has eight possible dream adventures to choose from. You can, for instance, take a relaxing walk through a forest; find yourself suddenly incredibly rich; fly through the sky like a superhero; enjoy a fun-filled day at the beach; or, for the romantic in you, experience a scenario involving love with either a man or a woman, complete with a fictional significant other whispering things like, "I love you" and "I want to be with you".
Another feature of the app encourages you to share your dream experiences through social media, which has a lot of people talking about the rather intriguing potential possibilities of using this app as a tool for entrepreneurs seeking to turn their slumber into productivity--using the simple act of sharing their dreams while they're fresh to keep the ideas that their subconscious mind has worked on throughout the night in the forefront of their consciousness. If it works as promised, the usefulness of this app--and, more specifically, the premise that it promotes--expands into areas of personal application that are virtually endless.