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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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Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh

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[-] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The thing is, this COULD be great, people with physical impairments or just those who'd prefer to work this way could enjoy thier day without the stress of work.

The problem is that it will 100% be used to extend your existing working hours, so that not a moment goes by your not generating revenue.

Sigh...

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year 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 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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. 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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

do any of these corpos ever think

No.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year 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.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

No you'd rather be slowly forced into working both

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Nah, I'd rather die thanks.

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's perfect, hook up the remote control electrodes before they're cold. Nice, another zombie worker doing 20 hours of hard labour, 7 days a week. For gruel!

Remember to go for the head, they're not getting me - Dead or alive!

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

thats basically what happened with dual incomes.

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[-] archomrade@midwest.social 23 points 1 year 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

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's bosses all the way up.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Employers: "Software Engineers are too expensive."

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

[-] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Designers are too expensive."

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

[-] Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] N0body@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 1 year ago

The lesser of two evils.

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.

[-] Vladkar@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 21racecar12@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

That sounds literally impossible

[-] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Even your dreams are now corporate IP.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] readyno@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

why would an engineer write code

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

it may be faster to make your own tool than put in a ticket to your global support team and then the 20 meetings on documentation and validation asssuming they go it this year. Just for something you could have made yourself in a week. Request like add a pull down to the ordering form takes like a year and that's after 5 calls and a presentation on how this will improve global sales. So much frustrating.

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