[ashwinne]

What a surprise! I wrote a short story last year about the exact same phenomenon: http://daariga.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-dream-worker/

Quite a shock to see it being found to be true as a research finding. Many of the details in the story matched so closely to the research methodology that I still cannot believe this is happening :-)

[doctoboggan]

Excellent story, it reminded me of The Circle, where the main character does similar absentminded work but while awake and also doing other tasks.

My favorite line was:

> Looking around curiously at the other passengers, she wondered how many of them were trading in their dreams for small change.