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.
Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh
Yeah, fuck that, I’m flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.
“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.”
And you really don’t have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
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.
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.
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.
do any of these corpos ever think
No.
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.
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.
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.
It’s made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.
If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job…
No you’d rather be slowly forced into working both
Nah, I’d rather die thanks.
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!
thats basically what happened with dual incomes.
Exactly my point. When options for working more appear, there is more room for pressuring people economically, and they all end up working more.
Its another reason I would rather be older than younger. My janitor dad owned what I would call a castle (it was beat up but huge. something like the begining of caddy shack where the main character lived) and my mom could devote 40 hours to a combination of housework and errands and managing the kids.
I’m afraid that if the things keep going as projected (and such technologies will help), our kids would be super envy of us having a mortgage-funded place of our own to begin with.
I also see that. as much as I would love to have been born earlier I clearly see being born later is worse and worse. In my parents time part of the “dream” was to own a home free and clear. I decade or so back I realized young folks did not even understand that. The dream was warped to be to just have a mortgage backed place at all. It feels like now its the eternal mortgage that doesn’t do anything more but protect against sudden rent spikes. I foresee the dream becoming just renting a place of your own without roommates.
The latter is already happening in many regions. Some people even try to look positively on it, but it’s clearly an “own nothing and be happy” mentality
not if you unionize
True.
But while unions are incredibly important, their achievement can be quickly reversed the moment they lose the grip.
Better not even start with technologies that can easily be turned against us.
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
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.
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!
Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.
It’s bosses all the way up.
Great, now I’ll get sexual harassment charges even when I’m sleeping.
The amount of people I’ve had sex with in my sleep… I’d end up with several life sentences I think.
Employers: “Software Engineers are too expensive.”
Also employers: “Why is our stuff not working?”
“Designers are too expensive.”
“Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?”
I’m not sleeping in. It’s OT.
Expending the whole bed room.
Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.
Jokes on you, corpo. I’ll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.
The lesser of two evils.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?
That sounds literally impossible
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.
That’s some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.
