Dreams change us.
We change dreams.
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Dream Engineering was just named the
#1 most powerful idea of the 21st century.
We founded the field.
Dust changes how you sleep, what you dream, and who you are when you wake up.
Remember, record, and understand your dreams with the Dust app.
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The sleep industry is built around rings, mattresses, and sleep scores—but none of them can tell you whether your night was terror, stress, joy, or healing. Meanwhile 74% of Americans report stress-disrupted sleep and frequent nightmares 3x risk of dying before 75.
The night is the largest unaddressed frontier in mental health. We have the science to change it.
"I’ve been surprised to discover for myself that my own dreams are not in fact as boring or unremarkable as what I first thought. For years, I’ve basically written off an entire aspect of myself…."
Anand Jagatia, Reporter, BBC World Service
"Concentrating so hard on the experience of dreaming and having that guided experience had the effect of long lucid-dream training concentrated into a single night."
Laura Rysman, Reporter, NYT
In our MIT studies, we guided 92% of people to dream of a specific topic chosen before bed.
See what people dream
"Fork" dream
A participant reports their hypnagogic dream.
Designing sneakers in a dream
Odell Beckham Jr. used dream incubation to create new Nike × Xbox designs.
Playing a game from the inside
Steve Saylor, a vision-impaired gamer, chose to dream inside his favorite video game.
Target Areas
Dust’s technologies are focused on three verticals.
Dreams for creative joy
For centuries we’ve known dreams can strike and give sudden creative inspiration. We’ve shown you can guide your dreams purposefully towards the challenges you’re working on now, and boost creativity.
Dreams for creativity
Dreams for mental health
The feelings we have in our dreams influence our waking mood. What if you could lower the stress and increase the joy you experience every night?
Dreams for mental health
Dreams for learning
Science has shown that what we dream about predicts what we remember the next day. Reactivating memories at night can influence what we forget and what we don’t. We’re building tools to make this process simple, and put it in your hands.
Dreams for learning
Dream Collective
We’re constantly making new things in the name of research and culture change around dreams. These people make it happen.
Robert Stickgold
Professor of Psychiatry, Principal Investigator
Harvard Medical School, Center for Sleep and Cognition, BIDMC
Dr. Pattie Maes
Professor, Principal Investigator
MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Lab, Center for Neurobiological Engineering
Dr. David Eagleman
Neuroscientist
Stanford University, The Center for Science and Law, Inner Cosmos Podcast
Dr. Leslie Ellis
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Inward Bound Counseling, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Author, “A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy”
Dr. Michelle Carr
Professor, Principal Investigator, Dream Engineering Laboratory
University of Montreal, Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Westley Youngren
Principal Investigator, The Nocturnal Investigations of Traumatic Experiences (NITE) Lab
The University of Missouri - Kansas City
Dr. Karen Konkoly
Post-doctoral researcher, Cambridge University
Northwestern University Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz
Co-founder, DUST
Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School Center for Sleep and Cognition
Tomas Vega
Co-founder, DUST
MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Lab, Tactical Hybrid Ecologies Lab
THE EXTENDED NETWORK
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Guided by visionaries
Our advisors are scientists, artists, and educators pushing the boundaries of human experience.
Dr. Carsten Höller
Artist creating immersive, perception-altering experiments.
Gagosian Gallery
Dr. David Eagleman
Neuroscientist exploring perception, time, and senses.
Stanford
Dr. Pradeep Sharma
Design educator bridging craft, culture, and innovation.
RISD, UAE
Larry Berger
Education entrepreneur reimagining K-12 digital curriculum.
Amplify
Martin Schneider
Social impact designer at IDEO's nonprofit arm.
IDEO.org
Precious Okoyomon
Artist weaving poetry, ecology, and living art.
Gladstone Gallery
Rodney Mullen
Legendary skateboarder, inventor of the kickflip.
Globe Industries
Partnering for impact
Industry leaders enable us to create an institute for unconscious.
Experiences
We’re using dream science to build art and culture as well, because dreams are so much more than what we can measure in a lab.
Discover what your dreams could be made of
Get early access to the DUST app, plus lullabies, exclusive insomnia support courses and wind-down tools from world-class scientists and sleep researchers.
