Hello hello, I’m Adam. I study cognitive science, and am particularly curious about sleep and dreams. I like building community where brain science meets tech, policy and art. I just finished my PhD and Postdoc at MIT. Reach out if something resonates by clicking ‘Open Form’. I'm especially looking for opportunities to teach, to collaborate with artists, to run dream workshops, and to apply our Targeted Dream Incubation tools in clinical settings. 

 


Some Articles About My Work + Collaborations:

Night Shifts from Harper’s Magazine
Dream Glove Boosts Creativity During Sleep from Science AAAS
Behind the Veil of Hypnagogic Sleep from Harvard Medical Magazine
Nightmares Becalmed from Aeon
60 Minutes on Radical Science
The Consequences of Hacking Our Dreams from NPR All Things Considered
On Ethical Sleep and Dream Science from AAAS Science
Hacking Dreams Could Help People Heal from Scientific American
Here’s How To Use Dreams for Creative Inspiration from Scientific American
On Dream Machines from MIT Technology Review
Sleep-hacking Glove That Can Track Your Dreams from The Times & Sunday Times
The Science Behind Creativity from the American Psychological Association
Meet Dormio, the experimental device that lets you control your dreams from World Economic Forum
A Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller 
That Moment When You’re Nodding Off Is A Sweet Spot for Creativity from MIT News
Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain from The Scientist Magazine
Vice Magazine on Dreams
Artwork Interrogates Collective Intelligence in Flash Art Magazine
BBC Visits the Dream Lab + BBC Tech On Dream Tech
Studio International On Art/Science
Our Dreams Workshop at MIT
The Ethics and Tech of Dream Seeding from Discover Magazine
Dream engineers work on promising ways to improve nightmare treatment from Dr. Leslie Ellis
ACLU challenges 'solitary confinement' in case of RI inmate who says he spent 450 days in isolation from Providence Journal

Some Books Where My Work + Collaborations Pop Up

When Brains Dream by Professor Robert Stickgold and Professor Antonio Zadra
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A. Farahany
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
Dream by Scott Carney
Unmasking A.I. by Joy Buolamwini
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems by Rostam J. Neuwirth
The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff
Nightmareland: Travels at the Borders of Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness by Lex Lonehood Nover
Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life by Chris Salter
Positive Technology: Designing E-experiences for Positive Change by Andrea Gaggiolo
The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni
Black Noise: Dream the Revolution by Victoria Rogers


Some of my speaking/writing:

Realities of Science Fiction at LUMA Arles 
Targeted Dream Incubation at Sleep Onset Increases Post-sleep Creative Performance from Nature Scientific Reports
The Consequences of Hacking Our Dreams Interview from NPR All Things Considered
Amicus Brief: The Brain in Solitary Confinement from United States First Circuit Court of Appeals
Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: From Diagnosis to Clinical Applications from Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 
On Advertising In Dreams from Aeon
Open and Shut: At the intersection of dreams, science and the arts.
A Dream Engineering Ethic from PubPub
On the Neuroscience of Restrictive Housing Prison Practices with Dr. Joel Dvoskin from Harvard Law School Center for Law, Brain and Behavior
Dormio: A Targeted Dream Incubation Device from Consciousness and Cognition
The Sociability of Sleep from University of Montral
Emergence with Agnieszka Kurant, Caroline Jones, Stefan Helmreich from M.I.T.
Adam is Dreaming from Wendi Yan at Raw Science Film Festival
Original Thinkers on Protecting our Unconscious, with Jeff Orlowski and Alex Rieger (pw: OT2020)
My Masters Thesis @ MIT (Readers Prof. Pattie Maes, Dr. Bob Stickgold, Prof. John Gabrieli)
Emotion Enhancing Technology from Physics of Life Reviews
Epilepsy in my Family