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Ultimately, the new sleep will come down to personalized optimization, which means that it will be customized to an individual’s specific biology and brain functions and be utilized for more than just rest. “We have already been using brain-scanning technology to get very fuzzy pictures of dreams,” says Uldrich. “So it will become a matter of how we use it to alter our sleep experience. In other words, are the DisneyPixar releases of the far future not meant for a movie screen but instead meant for our dreams? When does Dreamworks really become dream works?”