![]() ![]() The ability to influence other people's sleep worlds is still crude. With practice we can also increase our chances of having a lucid dream, the sort of "dream within a dream" that Inception's characters regularly slip into. We can strategize to dream about a particular subject, solve a problem or end a recurring nightmare. ![]() ![]() Techniques to control, or at least influence, our dreams have been shown to work in sleep experiments. Although the heavy sedation and level of detail incited are far-fetched, dream control isn't entirely a Hollywood fantasy. In the blockbuster movie Inception, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his compatriots use drugs and psychological profiles to trigger specific dreams in people. It turns out, however, that our ability to shape our dreams is better than mere chance. Some dreams feel so revelatory-if only returning to sleep would take us back there.
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