{"id":230661,"date":"2026-02-06T01:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/dream-engineering-can-help-solve-puzzling-questions-study-offers-insights-to-optimizing-sleep"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:07:51","slug":"dream-engineering-can-help-solve-puzzling-questions-study-offers-insights-to-optimizing-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/dream-engineering-can-help-solve-puzzling-questions-study-offers-insights-to-optimizing-sleep","title":{"rendered":"Dream engineering can help solve \u2018puzzling\u2019 questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dream-engineering-can-help-solve-puzzling-questions-study-offers-insights-to-optimizing-sleep.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to \u201csleep on it.\u201d It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing from dreams, scientific evidence has remained elusive, due to the challenge of systematically manipulating dreams.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University validates the possibility of influencing dreams and offers a crucial step to support the theory that dreams in REM sleep\u2014the rapid eye movement phase of sleep in which lucid dreaming can occur\u2014may be especially conducive to helping individuals come up with creative solutions to a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The study has been published in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to \u201csleep on it.\u201d It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing from dreams, scientific evidence has remained elusive, due to the challenge of systematically manipulating dreams. A new study by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}