This is about a poet using technology (the dormio) to experiment with dream seeding: reading a sentence then going to sleep and have the dormio wake you up when

This is about a poet using technology (the dormio) to experiment with dream seeding: reading a sentence then going to sleep and have the dormio wake you up when you are done with the dreaming phase so that you can take notes on what you dreamt. Dream seeding does work in the sense that what you do / read before going to bed / during the day can influence you dreams. It is however limited in the sense that you cannot predict what your mind will do at a particular point in time with a particular seed. I would also note that some creators (such as Nikola Tesla if I remember correctly) played with a low tech version of this: thinking about an idea then sleeping in a chair with a heavy ball in your hand. When you get into deep sleep the ball falls and wakes you up. This keeps you at the edge of deep sleep, in what some consider a very creative state.