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It’s hard to find time to dream lately. We lead busy lives and don’t get much time for sleep in which to dream, let alone to dream properly and remember any of it. So, for the dream hungry person on the go, I have created the Dream House Portable Dream Synthesizer:

One theory about why we dream at night is that our minds need to file away all of the information they’ve taken in during the day. The side effect of this process is the strange images and sensations that we experience in our dreams. It is hard to be sure exactly what is happening, but we assume that dreaming is important, and thus I have striven to complete this dream-on-the-go machine, allowing us to catch up on what we miss due to our busy schedules.
What does it do? The Dream House Portable Dream Synthesizer is an experimental device designed to mimic the creative tendencies of the brain during REM sleep, allowing the user to input selected stimuli from throughout the day and then look inside the brass viewing tube and receive a dream image in return. At this early stage in development, the user needs to manually input data via a push card that is read by the device, but in the future I hope to develop a more intuitive, accessible interface (brainwave detection).
How does it work? Peering into the Dream House, one sees a room lit slightly by the windows and doors of the house, like a bedroom at night, softly illuminated by the moon:

This puts the user in a comfortable frame of mind while the built in music player makes soothing melodies. The user then simply writes out in longhand several items they feel have had an impression on them throughout the day–images, noises, smells, memories–and slides the card into the slot the says INSERT on the roof of the house.

Look inside again; what dreams may come! The interior of the house will have been completely transformed into a synthesis of the stimuli inserted. Using the Dream House frequently and on a daily basis can help the mind in its busy task of not going insane.
Why a house? You may have seen similar products, disguised as goggles, headsets, helmets, prescription medicines, or even popular movies and entertainment, but these objects all lack the key feature of the Dream House Portable Dream Synthesizer: that it can make you feel at home wherever you go. The house-shape is instantly familiar and recognizable as an icon of comfort, security, and most importantly, it’s where you sleep! The device’s exterior also serves to help it look at home in the office, on your desk, wherever you need it to be. The real brass and oak details make it a handsome conversation piece as well, unlike those other, unsightly dream synthesizers.
AND THE BEST PART: Hate it when you have a vivid dream but you quickly forget the details once you wake up? With the Dream House Portable Dream Synthesizer, you can just write whatever you see in the house on the back of the card that produced it, and revisit that dream any time. Of course, the Dream House slightly randomizes each dream input, so the result will vary slightly from time to time.
Disclaimer:
The Dream House Portable Dream Synthesizer is still in the developmental stage. Further beta testing is required, the generation 2 model should have a better dream computation system and a more reliable sound player.
Problems with the Dream House The Dream House occassionally experiences a hiccup and projects a null dream image:

In the case of this result, try altering the items on your punch card; perhaps they were illegible or confusing. It is also possible that your machine is broken, causing the blank white room to appear instead of an inspiring dream image, or perhaps the input from your day is completely void of meaning and it is already too late to reclaim your sanity, in which case you should call an expert. In no event should you open the Dream House to see what is inside.

All Kidding aside