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What’s the News:<\/strong> Recurring nightmares can cast a pall over anyone’s waking life, and for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>, they can also contribute to panic attacks, flashbacks, and violent behavior. Can soothing, dream-like experiences in a virtual world, entered immediately after a nightmare runs its course, tame those bad dreams? It seems like a kind of real-life inception<\/a>, but it’s not as far fetched as you’d think: the Army is investigating just such a treatment, Dawn Lim at Wired’s Danger Room reports<\/a>.<\/p> <\/span>How the Heck:<\/strong><\/p> What’s the Context:<\/strong><\/p> The Future Holds: <\/strong>Experiments on the way to developing such a treatment, which the Army calls “power dreaming,” are planned at Naval Hospital Bremerton<\/a>, in Washington. Last week, the Army awarded about half a million dollars<\/a> to a contractor to aid in its development, and Danger Room reports<\/a> that the research project should get under way next year.<\/p> [via Danger Room<\/a>]<\/p> Image courtesy of whatleydude \/ flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p> What’s the News: Recurring nightmares can cast a pall over anyone’s waking life, and for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, they can also contribute to panic attacks, flashbacks, and violent behavior. Can soothing, dream-like experiences in a virtual world, entered … Continue reading <\/a>
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