New interrogation method just dropped.

Coming from what sounds like a bunch of tech bros, this sounds deeply dystopian - sure, we’ll work you to death even harder during the day, but that won’t matter - you can be and do what you like in your dreams.

“What is not known, yet, is whether TUS can induce or stabilize lucid dreams, though the Prophetic team is banking on a positive answer to this open question. Its wearable headband prototype, the Halo, was developed with the company Card79 and can currently read EEG data of users. Over the next year, Prophetic aims to use the dataset from their partnership with the Donders Institute to train machine learning models that will stimulate targeted neural activity in users with ultrasound transducers as a means of inducing lucid dreams.”

That’s a pretty big caveat. Who the fuck would sign up to be their guinea pig for testing this? A huge part of training these models is providing feedback when it gets things wrong, but we’re talking brains here.

What is not known, yet, is whether TUS can induce or stabilize lucid dreams

Wollberg and Berry expressed confidence that their approach will work based in part on the successful induction of lucid dreams by other methods, including a 2014 study that found “stimulation in the lower gamma band during REM sleep influences ongoing brain activity and induces self-reflective awareness in dreams.”

Snore

Can’t wait for the subscription service to avoid having ads mid-dream: