For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.
I’ve only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.
Plus, let’s look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don’t expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You’re more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.
Lucid dreaming is just becoming aware that you are dreaming. Doesn’t affect sleep quality at all. Now forcing a lucid dream seems like it might make you sleep worse, but I’m sceptical it even works tbh
Lucid dreaming isn’t the same as sleep paralysis though. I’ve had several lucid dreams and it’s great sleep - it has to be because it mostly happens during the deepest part of sleeping.
Would I want to work during a lucid dream though - hell no.
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Hence my emphasis on stress being the factor that led to sleep paralysis for me. I’ve had plenty of lucid dreaming that was fine. It’s when my brain gets stuck on a problem that I can’t resolve that it gets out of control and I feel trapped and unable to wake up.
I should have avoided generalized statements when only talking about personal experience, but I am completely convinced that external stimulus meant to keep you working would severely degrade sleep quality.
Ah I follow you. I’ve only had one or maybe two rare instances of sleep paralysys which were frightening. But I have had many many nights of ruminating sleep brought on by severe anxiety so I can definitely identify with what you’re saying.
i say all the time that women entering the workforce is the biggest scam. the only reason its worthwhile is if it allows a woman to support herself, but these days its nearly impossible to be self sufficient
Matrix is affordable housing program.
Murino, Kudrovo is where I am.
Humanity loves torturing humanity.
Those who seek power will never be sated, because absolute power is entirely beyond the means of men, yet they find lacking power which they believe they so rightfully deserve to be deeply offensive.
People are always looking for new things to exploit. We’ve made basic human survival so obtainable that much of the population enjoys living in excess. We need to go back and fine tune society so that it properly distributes all our resources. That includes fighting the monsters that gaurd and gate keep the levers of power.
Skill issue. They should start training their ki so they can fly and blow up planets.
No wait, CEOs won’t be able to do that because they are weak af. Nevermind. They’ll never reach true power.
Last night I had a dream that my cat had his own pet cat and that both of them were dancing a waltz on the corner of my bed.
In my dream I was very disappointed because I was unable to get a video of it on my phone and when I woke up I was so disappointed that it wasn’t real, but I still checked my phone just in case.
I have no video or even pictures of the dancing cats, And that makes me sad.
I got you friend.
Yoooo you have no clue how many times I whip out my phone in a dream to record and photograph the weird happenings, and then realize “oh wait there’s no way to get the data off this thing” and just look down at my phone with sadness, and eventually wake up with that very same sadness
You can completely control your dreams and do whatever you can imagine!
Ooh! Can I work extra hours?
“Does it mean I can enjoy life during day?”
“No, it means you will work day AND night.”
“Does it mean I will be paid more?”
“No, you will be paid less.”
Working while sleeping and having the rest of the day for myself seems cool
Yeah, no. This would become “8 hours for working, 8 hours for working while you’re asleep, and 8 hours working because ‘fuck you’ that’s why”
I don’t think much of anything will become of this tbqh.
If it’s even possible to utilise your dreams usefully… surely this will have an impact on sleep quality? You can’t just not rest and expect to get the benefit of rest.
I’ve used lucid dreaming to solve problems in the past. It’s not really that different from trying to solve problems while on mind altering substance. You get a mix of brilliant solitons you’d never think of any other time and complete nonsense.
There’s also a lot you just forget. I don’t know if it would be helpful to recover that stuff or not. It may just feel important or correct without actually being useful in any way.
It doesn’t negatively impact sleeping for enjoyable things like designing. I can’t imagine it would be useful for anything you don’t actually want to do.
But then again, extracting value isn’t really the point of a lot of work. Most of it is about power and control. The work place is basically non-consentual BDSM, so it would make sense for an employer to demand someone works while sleeping just to show that they can exercise power over them.
and having the rest of the day for myself
XD
I mean if I sleep 8 hours and I did my 8 hour shift, no more work
I don’t think that’s how this will work.
Probably won’t work at all tbh, but if I got the option, I’d rather sleep work than awake work is all I’m saying.
No, what I actually mean is, I doubt the manufacturer / inventor will claim that the device will work in this way.
Ok, it’s a nice thought.
I’m trying not to be too negative here, but have you seen the innumerable graphs/charts that show the productivity increase vs. wage stagnation, etc.? Hard not to see how this would be abused immediately for corporate -profit$- instead of benefiting the workers.
I’ve seen them, but I was just trying to get away from the constant doom posting for a while and think how nice it’d be to be able to be done with work right away when you wake up.
They literally stole this from Hypnospace Outlaw
Can’t wait until they make beefbrain real
I want to make sure I’m squeezed for every drop of productivity… my purpose has become clear
did nobody learn from hypnospace outlaw?
That’s where I learned we should never allow boomers on the internet
It’s another “don’t create the Torment Nexus” situation again…
This is so weird and not for the obvious reasons. We as a general people (worldwide) are more productive then ever and if anything there is more production then the market can handle. Even by the most cut throat thinking this is pointless. Who is going to buy the products produced by the sleep slaves?
Qe testers around the world rejoice.
Got your stuff mostly automated,? Run those tests while you sleep.
sources and image transcript:
- the top half of the image is screenshot of this article about a startup claiming to be able to use ultrasound to induce lucid dreams so that “people can work in their sleep”. (spoiler: it’s vaporware)
- the lower half of the image is a screenshot from this (imo worth-watching) 2 minute video from 2016: Hayao Miyazaki’s thoughts on an artificial intelligence with the subtitle “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” There is a more detailed description of that video here. (Guillermo del Toro agrees.)
…goodness that is dark.
Can’t say I’ve ever felt that way about a tech demo!
Came to ask for the source on the bottom. What a funny quote.
Thanks for making the fediverse more accessible!
I wouldn’t mind this if it was for my own personal benefit, not for a greedy employer who’s already working me when I’m awake.
Seriously. They come up with something like this and the FIRST thing they freaking think of is to use it to work while sleeping? I know they have tested their own product because they are STILL dreaming!
Is that the movie prop from Dream Scenario?
