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.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Yeah, fuck that, I’m flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.
cerement@slrpnk.net 11 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@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And you really don’t have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 11 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.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 11 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.