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Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Imagine how interesting it would be if people had the opportunity to record their dreams on tape and then watch them over a cup of morning coffee. All the “shot” material could make an interesting TV series, fantastic and exciting at that.
Roughly the same can be said about musical processing of dreams. It would be no less interesting to listen to what we dreamed at night.
And now, finally, it has happened. Scientists have reached our consciousness and developed a unique method that can turn dreams into a musical melody.
The method was developed by cybernetics student Aurora Tulilaulu under the supervision of University of Helsinki computer science professor Hannu Toivonen.
This amazing app can automatically record a melody while you sleep.
"We have managed to develop a device that can be used to listen to a person's dreams. The recording is based on observations that are recorded during sleep phases. This is the frequency of breathing, heartbeats and movements during sleep. The result is a recording of your night's rest, the musical rhythms of which reflect everything that you dreamed about at night," says student Aurora Tulilaulu, a member of the group that developed the device.
A new method of illustrating dreams is based on the analysis of information about the course and quality of sleep.
During the testing of the app, a special small sensor was placed under the participants' mattresses and read their sleep data.
The sensor signals "tell" about the heart rate and breathing rhythm. Thanks to this data, it is easy to determine what phase of sleep a person is in.
The production of the unique device was handled by Joonas Paalasmaa, a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Computer Science, at Beddit. The lucky owners of the developed “device” can “listen” to their dreams using the online service sleepmusicalization.net. In addition, the service provides the opportunity to listen to the music of other people’s dreams. The developer of this service is Mikko Varis.
"Treat your sleep as a unique musical experience!" urges sleepmusicalization.net.