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The main premise is that people's dreams are essentially open territory for stealing ideas, for implanting ideas. is there any truth to that idea that dreams can be manipulated? >> well, not in the you just walk into someone else's dream via drugs and electrical wiring the way it is posited in the movie. there's certainly research that you can influence people's dream content in a number of ways. one is just by suggestions before they go to sleep. and people can influence their own dreams by self-suggestion as they're falling asleep, that they'd either like to dream on a particular topic or to...

That though? is it a way -- is there some sort of help to be gained? is there a way to maybe calm people's anxieties or help them work through issues through dreaming? >> yes. most of the ways that people try to influence dreams -- and again, in reality, it would tend to be cooperative ways, people want to influence their dreams, not the stealing kind of thing like in the film. but people who have nightmares, recurring nightmares, can learn by self-suggestion at bedtime that if that dream starts, they want some other more positive outcome request learn to influence recurring nightmares in ways...