Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
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Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
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I'd like to point these scientists at a 2006 movie called Paprika. Might be just a touch relevant to their studies...
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This sounds kind of terrifying. I'm sure it will fly off the shelves
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Lucid dreams are fun until you can't turn it off. Then you just become trapped in your dreams every night trying to constantly wake up.
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Just don't use it? It's a device that actively causes lucid dreaming, you wear it around your head when you sleep. If you find the lucid dreams unpleasant just don't put it on again.
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You don't need a dumb device to have lucid dreams.
You're also completely missing the point, but whatever.
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Oh dear... I must say, I hope something like this is banned for recreational usage. Before it hits the market.
Otherwise I'd be worried about creating a generation of the worst addicts we've ever seen, like, WALL-E tier stuff. Powerful narcotics have nothing on lucid dreams, they just normally take work to accomplish. A good bit of it, actually.
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There are plenty of techniques to induce a state of lucid dreaming that don't involve technology that have been used for quite a while now.
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Yeah, I thought it was really interesting when the article claimed half of everyone reports one.
The danger is in the accessibility though. If it's too easy, essentially, why wake up? A healthy person probably wouldn't be at great risk, but a borderline individual would be in grave danger imo, of it permanently fucking their priorities up.
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I hope not. I could use some quality escapism.
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There are also books, games and movies that are really engrossing and I find myself feeling very much immersed in. Those need to be banned immediately as well, of course.
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I think their point is fair. Dreams can be way more intense and feel real.
You can't compare actually experiencing something as if you are there to watching a film.
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I'll get it when they make it Lan multi-player.
I think you will find that hell is other people.