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Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same

guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The tradeoff obviously will be that since you’re not actually getting rest, and all multicellular life sleeps, 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?

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Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t worry, the whole thing is pure BS

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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So are a lot of worker antagonistic business trends.
  
  Doesn’t stop some CEO from trying to implement it.
  
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  - Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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
    
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    Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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NBJack@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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 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.

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dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @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.
  
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  - Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think his point is that the REM portion still does its job regardless of if you are lucid or not during the phase.
    
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    livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @Jaded I think you're right, that does make sense.
    
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