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A Boring Dystopia

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People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?

Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.

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Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

How do I clock in? But I can't clock out?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, fuck that, I'm flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 years ago

“Yeah boss … I came up with this really cool solution while I was dreaming but I couldn’t remember it when I woke up so I’m gonna need to get some more sleep hours in to try to find it again.”

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And you really don't have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Almost never had the pleasure, but I believe one of the main tipoffs that you're dreaming is whatever text you're looking at will be illegible. And they are expecting coding to happen.

Though the more interesting screw up is there exists any CEO anywhere that honestly believes I'm not going to use this for porn.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Ive heard that too, but I have no problem reading things in my dreams. And I make a note about that in my dreams too. Lol.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

One one hand this tech would be fun to play with on your own. But on the other having to work day and night is very dystopian. Come to think of it do any of these corpos ever think that humans are still needed in capitalism. Like if you forced everyone to have the work ethic they desire humans would probably not socialize or reproduce. A break free work world would bring humanity to extinction in the most depressing way possible. Edit: also if everyone is spending all their time working then who would be the customers. Who is going to buy the things these corpos want to sell.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

do any of these corpos ever think

No.

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I've had a small number of lucid experiences and one time I was able to literally do whatever I wanted. Including flight and teleportation. I woke up after what felt like a few minutes though, which was a bummer.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who needs to work 10 hours a day when you can work 24? Company owners are going to be so turned on by these news.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Also I have to say, I love how the limiting factor is our imagination but all they could come up with is about working more.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I just solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN. I’m not making this up. This just happened.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago

Anyone who does this when they're stressed out knows how awful it is to be stuck thinking about a work problem over and over again and never feeling truly rested.

Often I do not wake up having solved the problem, I simply wake up feeling like the problem is hopeless because I've been obsessing over it instead of resting and never solving it

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Employers: "Software Engineers are too expensive."

Also employers: "Why is our stuff not working?"

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"Designers are too expensive."

"Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?"

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job.......

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No you'd rather be slowly forced into working both

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, I'd rather die thanks.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 2 years ago

That's perfect, hook up the remote control electrodes before they're cold. Nice, another zombie worker doing 20 hours of hard labour, 7 days a week. For gruel!

Remember to go for the head, they're not getting me - Dead or alive!

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

thats basically what happened with dual incomes.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not if you unionize

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

True.

But while unions are incredibly important, their achievement can be quickly reversed the moment they lose the grip.

Better not even start with technologies that can easily be turned against us.

[–] Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great, now I'll get sexual harassment charges even when I'm sleeping.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

The amount of people I've had sex with in my sleep... I'd end up with several life sentences I think.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I'm gonna commit a genocide.

[–] Vladkar@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.

[–] 21racecar12@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

This is both draconian and absolutely retarded. Reeks of a venture capitalist who doesn’t know anything about basic biology, psychology, or technology. The lucid dreaming state is not one of intense cognitive performance and reasoning, and even if you were able to do that heavy of a workload while “asleep”, your brain wouldn’t actually be getting any sleep. When you “wake up” you would be absolutely mentally exhausted and have to go back to actual sleep.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

That's some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sleeping in. It's OT.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Expending the whole bed room.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I already code in my sleep. I wake up sometimes and have code concepts ready to go. It's kinda wild.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've literally woken up and rushed to the computer because I came up with an answer to a problem I had while sleeping lol

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Even your dreams are now corporate IP.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

That sounds literally impossible

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

smells like stinky stinky bullshit

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

And here I've been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

In a world with a solid support structure like universal basic income, where people would never be forced to sleepwork to survive, this could be quite cool. There could be some amazing artist/engineer collabs done.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

I can give a 1 better. Ive developed a technique to write code while drunk.

[–] readyno@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What you mean to say is you are developing a nervegear and we are closer to SAO than ever

[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always wanted an Inception dream machine. What if you taught yourself a skill while in there and brought it out to the real world? I hope that one day those machines exist.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

i mean to some degree that's specifically the point of dreaming, your brain runs simulations of various stuff to train and double check things.

Like if you've just taken a boat license you'll probably be dreaming about piloting a boat for a while, because the brain wants to make sure that this apparently important task is done right.

[–] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The thing is, this COULD be great, people with physical impairments or just those who'd prefer to work this way could enjoy thier day without the stress of work.

The problem is that it will 100% be used to extend your existing working hours, so that not a moment goes by your not generating revenue.

Sigh...

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