# Dream Machines with Will Dowd \[Patreon Preview\]

An episode of [Otherworld](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1647611444), 1 Oct 2026, 13 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8709079/8709079_2026-09-30-223419.192.mp3?rssID=5968

In this Patreon episode, I talk with Will Dowd, an author and poet who trained as a science writer at MIT, about the year he spent experimenting with Dormio. This MIT-developed device detects the moment you slip into hypnagogia, the in-between state at the edge of sleep, then plays a sound to influence your dream and wakes you before you forget it. After a genetic disorder took away his ability to read, Will used it every day for a year to experiment with dreaming and see what he could learn about this mysterious transitional state. Full Episode available at www.patreon.com/otherworld

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