• Fermion@mander.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.

    I’ve only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.

    Plus, let’s look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don’t expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You’re more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.

    • burgersc12@mander.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Lucid dreaming is just becoming aware that you are dreaming. Doesn’t affect sleep quality at all. Now forcing a lucid dream seems like it might make you sleep worse, but I’m sceptical it even works tbh

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think anyone’s saying that the lucid dreaming alone is bad.

        It’s exploiting the lucid dream state to force people to work when they should be resting.

        • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          Dreams are important for your brain to do it’s brain shit. Integrate memories, work out subconscious things, deal with the what-the-fiyling-fuckishness of being an ape that has an over-developed cognitive realm. Lack of REM makes your mind angry, and can literally kill you. How do you think hijacking such an important process which has evolved over millennia to do menial office work will go? Let’s ask taste receptors and high-fructose corn syrup…

    • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lucid dreaming isn’t the same as sleep paralysis though. I’ve had several lucid dreams and it’s great sleep - it has to be because it mostly happens during the deepest part of sleeping.

      Would I want to work during a lucid dream though - hell no.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    sources and image transcript:

    • the top half of the image is screenshot of this article about a startup claiming to be able to use ultrasound to induce lucid dreams so that “people can work in their sleep”. (spoiler: it’s vaporware)
    • the lower half of the image is a screenshot from this (imo worth-watching) 2 minute video from 2016: Hayao Miyazaki’s thoughts on an artificial intelligence with the subtitle “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” There is a more detailed description of that video here. (Guillermo del Toro agrees.)
  • exocrinous@startrek.website
    0·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?
    Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!