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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Witchfire to c/aboringdystopia

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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months 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 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 8 points 7 months 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 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

do any of these corpos ever think

No.

[–] ShunkW 5 points 7 months 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 38 points 7 months 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 17 points 7 months 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.

[–] set_secret 28 points 7 months ago

It's made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.

[–] Smoogs 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 points 7 months 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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sanyanov 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

No you'd rather be slowly forced into working both

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'd rather die thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

thats basically what happened with dual incomes.

[–] Sanyanov 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my point. When options for working more appear, there is more room for pressuring people economically, and they all end up working more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Its another reason I would rather be older than younger. My janitor dad owned what I would call a castle (it was beat up but huge. something like the begining of caddy shack where the main character lived) and my mom could devote 40 hours to a combination of housework and errands and managing the kids.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months 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 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Employers: "Software Engineers are too expensive."

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

[–] AnalogyAddict 2 points 7 months ago

"Designers are too expensive."

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] IndiBrony 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] ChicoSuave 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] RIP_Cheems 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] EatYouWell 14 points 7 months ago

Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.

[–] Vladkar 14 points 7 months ago

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

[–] 21racecar12 14 points 7 months 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 13 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, corpo. I'll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.

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[–] spittingimage 12 points 7 months ago

Even your dreams are now corporate IP.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds literally impossible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I can lucid dream, but it's really difficult to make text look coherent. Even if I could visualize code, it's damn near impossible to retain the details after you wake up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Relax guys, it's just another scam start up to steal money from dumbass investors. It'll never reach a prototype.

[–] ShortFuse 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There's nothing like solving a coding problem in your sleep.

[–] Tier1BuildABear 3 points 7 months 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

[–] gedaliyah 9 points 7 months ago

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

[–] ook_the_librarian 7 points 7 months 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.

[–] feedum_sneedson 7 points 7 months ago

smells like stinky stinky bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] readyno 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

SAO, but instead of playing in an RPG, it's just a virtual desk job

[–] solidsnake2085 3 points 7 months 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.

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