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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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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, fuck that, I’m flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.

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- cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.”
  
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- EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And you really don’t have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
  
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  - Nepenthe@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
    Though the more interesting screw up is there exists any CEO anywhere that honestly believes I'm not going to use this for porn.
    
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  - ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
    
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iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
  
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Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I literally solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN.

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- AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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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  - Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Okay, but Dynamo DB is also pure baloney. Who thought a single table to include every type of entity was a good design? I’m frustrated because it works so well, but boy do I hate using it
    
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set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.

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Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job…

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- Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No you’d rather be slowly forced into working both
  
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  - Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah, I’d rather die thanks.
    
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  - HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    thats basically what happened with dual incomes.
    
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  - Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    not if you unionize
    
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archomrade@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Employers: “Software Engineers are too expensive.”

Also employers: “Why is our stuff not working?”

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- AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Designers are too expensive.”
  
  “Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?”
  
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DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.

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- registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s bosses all the way up.
  
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Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Great, now I'll get sexual harassment charges even when I'm sleeping.

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- IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The amount of people I’ve had sex with in my sleep… I’d end up with several life sentences I think.
  
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not sleeping in. It’s OT.

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- Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Expending the whole bed room.
  
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RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I’m gonna commit a genocide.

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N0body@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Jokes on you, corpo. I’ll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.

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- registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The lesser of two evils.
  
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EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.

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21racecar12@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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mojo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That sounds literally impossible

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- skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
  
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Vladkar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?

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fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Relax guys, it’s just another scam start up to steal money from dumbass investors. It’ll never reach a prototype.

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plz1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.

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gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And here I’ve been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron

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spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Even your dreams are now corporate IP.

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ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I already code in my sleep. I wake up sometimes and have close concepts ready to go. It’s kinda wild.

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- PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s nothing like solving a coding problem in your sleep.
  
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- Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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
  
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feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
smells like stinky stinky bullshit

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ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can give a 1 better. Ive developed a technique to write code while drunk.

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readyno@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What you mean to say is you are developing a nervegear and we are closer to SAO than ever

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- CCF_100@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  SAO, but instead of playing in an RPG, it’s just a virtual desk job
  
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solidsnake2085@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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