Imagine if you could study in your sleep… Or “watch” a book and be acually there… Hmm that wouldn’t really work for innner dialogue of other characters…
Software engineer says: “Fuck off and let me have a life.”
Yeah, seriously.
This just sounds like a way to squeeze more work out of a person.
Work/life balance? What’s that…
Well if i could work well sleeping and then live my life while awake that’d be pretty sweet.
Doubt that’s what a lot of company owners would want but that is maybe the only plus side of this.
Third comment in this post about this from me, but I’ve done university work while lucid dreaming, solved bugs we didn’t even know existed, stuff like that. I don’t think you rest as much while lucid dreaming, I’m pretty sure I built up fatigue at many points in my life just due to how much lucid dreaming I was doing. I now avoid lucid dreaming, and have started losing the ability to do it frequently (which frankly is a blessing). I feel more well rested now than I did when I lucid dreamt a lot. No way this idea doesn’t just leave you completely tired after a while.
This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job
Get your beefbrain shield pro quick, we’re headed into hypnospace
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But there’s still an appetite for new technologies, since the potential for creativity and problem-solving is so great and since many on the market don’t work to the extent they promise, a dreaming expert told Fortune.
The potential of lucid dreaming is less about conquering specific problems and more about finding new, creative ways to approach topics that a sleeper couldn’t previously fathom.
For example, a mathematician might not reach a specific, numerical answer to a math problem while asleep, but the lucid dream allows them to explore new strategies to tackle the equation while awake.
To create the Halo, Prophetic is working with Card79 founder Afshin Mehin, who designed the Neuralink N1 device for Elon Musk’s brain implant company.
Wollberg founded Prophetic in March alongside chief technology officer Wesley Louis Berry III, who was previously creating augmented reality art.
In response to this claim, Wollberg cited a series of studies that link the level of prefrontal cortex activation with the ability to control a dream.
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No thank you.
Well this is fucking dystopian.
Getting closer and closer to making you part of the Matrix. Your productivity is not allowed to stop.
The technique I’ve used to trigger lucid dreaming is noticing when “static” text changes or is otherwise nonsense… so I have my doubts. And zero desire to learn more because I’m full up on dystopias right now.
Huh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen writing in a dream.
I usually didn’t either, but the (tedious) technique I used led to a lot more text in my dreams. I think because my subconscious was looking for them.
You have to spend a few weeks making this a habit: Every time you see a sign read it, look away, look back, and read it again. Once you’ve done that awake long enough it’ll become a proper habit and it will carry through in to dreams. And in a dream when you look back the sign will be different - which will make you realize you’re in a dream.
One of the best indicators that you are in a dream is if you can’t read something that you are trying to read. For whatever reason, reading is impossible while dreaming and most people don’t even have writing in their dreams to read. I do have writing in my dreams, but only rarely and am not able to read it. I’ve definitely used it to trigger lucid dreaming. I also use stuff like, “wait, how am I breathing under water?”
My most consistent dream sign is that I cannot run. I don’t just get exhausted, I lose coodrination, but can for some reason continue running on my fours like a dog. Maybe it’s just being a furry?
Another one is losing my backpack or purse, getting anxiety about how I screwed up and thinking it must not be real.
That’s a common method people use to lucid dream. One thing I’ve read about is people making it a consistent habit to check their watch regularly while awake, so they eventually do it while asleep. Apparently clocks always look fucked up in dreams, so that’s when they’re able to figure out they’re dreaming I guess?
But yeah, something about not being able to read text or a clock in a dream. Gets all weird.
doubt
The tradeoff obviously will be that since you’re not actually getting rest, and all multicellular life needs to sleep, it’s going to fuck up a lot of engineers in ways we won’t find out about for like 5-10 years until they start going crazy/dying/whatever. But hey, people are infinitely replaceable commodities you can just burn through like trees, right?
I don’t know the answer to this, but I thought lucid dreaming still counted as getting rest as far as your brain was concerned. I lucid dream about once a month, and I never felt tired after it or like I was missing sleep.
@dogslayeggs no, the brain needs to cycle through four phases. REM only takes up a portion of your sleep. Even if it felt like you were dreaming all night, you likely weren’t.
I think his point is that the REM portion still does its job regardless of if you are lucid or not during the phase.
Don’t worry, the whole thing is pure BS
So are a lot of worker antagonistic business trends.
Doesn’t stop some CEO from trying to implement it.
This is really a scam. A sleeping engineer cannot code in his dreams. This is not how the human body works. This guy is trying to scam ignorant venture capitals.
Similar to theranos. They exploit deep ignorance on biology of people who spent their life doing money
Hypothetical situation, if there was a way to induce lucid dreaming and record the dreams as well? Coding doesn’t really lend itself to this but advertising, filmography or architecture would benefit at least at the early concept stage.
I agree It’s all very sci-fi but if they can make a product that works like they say (sending ultrasounds to target specific parts of the brain to induce lucid dreaming), it has amazing entertainment value right out of the box regardless of its work use.
It’s like asking a computer in sleep mode to run a screen saver and pretending close-to-random loosely-guided images are result of a rational creative process. Sleeping brain work differently, for a reason. At that point they should put money on AI to improve awake productivity. Programming during lucid dreams is a scam
Regarding entertainment, there is a reason the humans needs to sleep. Disrupting natural patterns creates only issues
Ever tried to read something in your dreams? Coding is basically 90% reading and 10% writing. Then you have to insure that shit compiles and runs.
I can’t speak for you, but I don’t think my brain has a valid edition of the Java Development Kit.
Just think: People having to get help because the job they quit three years ago keeps showing up in their dreams. What’s worse is that they keep doing it, in control but unaware of the fact that they aren’t getting paid, threatened by their in-dream former boss with being fired if the quota wasn’t met.
Staying awake yet unemployed becomes one of their only escapes. They turn to stimulants to stay away from ‘work’ just a bit longer, just a little more peace.
But they then ‘crash’, falling asleep for almost a day, and starting a shift that feels like an eternity, Inception style.
You ever have a crazy intense epic dream and come up with this awesome new idea that you think will change the world, and after a minute or two of being awake and coming to your senses, you realize how utterly idiotic you sound? There’s going to be a lot of that.
AI hallucinations weren’t enough, we need real natural bed-to-table hallucinations
Probably. I have been able to lucid dream since I was a kid, if we’re talking about knowing you are dreaming and controlling aspects of the dream.
It’s still just your own brain, and if you’re controlling it you’re actually being less outside-the-box creative than in the dreams where you’re not.
If you’re so in control you’re able to force it to do work tasks then what’s going to be generated will probably be lower quality than waking tasks, not higher.
I wrote a hit song with the Rolling Stones and was able to sing the whole thing when I woke up. It was gone by lunch time.
This would actually be insane for music creation. The few times I had dreams where I was playing an instrument, it was pure fire
And no tooling will certainly improve the coding abilities. Especially since I remember all the code, including the changes others made in the time since I last looked at it.
What do you mean using pizzas for steering wheels is a bad idea!? I’m gonna make billions!
That happens with whip its too
Have you ever had a dream that you, you had, your, you could, you’ll do, you wants, you could do so, you’ll do, you could, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?
When I was twelve, I woke up convinced that the color yellow was called yellow, because humans had figured out that word was intrinsically linked to that color.
I was devastated my “epiphany” stopped making sense after I fully woke up.
Not too far off from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
To be fair, that’s a bloody rad dream! Love the concept lol
People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?
Great The Onion stuff. Hard to make this shit up.
Are you really sleeping then? I thought the point of sleeping was to wash away the buildup of plaque (amyloid?) in your brain. IINM the inability to get rid of it is one of the reasons for Alzheimers and dementia.
I would really like to know what they measure and how it compares between users and non-users of this ultrasonic tech. Disrupting brain functionality to be quasi awake might not be the smartest thing to do.
