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A lucid dream is characterized by knowing that you are dreaming. The plot of that movie is the opposite.
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
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#12tobacco patches do it for me
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#13GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke" people just sleep and navigate induced dreams 24/7 by having IV nutrition and staff to clean and turn them in bed.
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#14GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke…
Maybe we don't need evil robots to create the Matrix and force us into it - we can do it all by ourselves.
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#15I'm sorry, there's no chance I'll use transcranial ultrasound to manipulate my brain. People who want to lucid dream can do it the old fashioned way without being worried about things like cavitation of their brain cells. There's a reason the NHS recommends that people don't use things like 4D ultrasound as a form of entertainment.
That they describe transcranial ultrasound as "non-invasive" is absurd. Either it does something or it doesn't. The paper linked in the article describes the mechanism of TUS as:
"Opening of ion channels -> ruptures in membrane -> thermal tissue ablation" in order of increasing intensity of stimulation.
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#16I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
The novelty wears off. Bear in mind that you don't control when they occur. Also, a lucid dream is not quite the same experience as being normally awake -- you are still dreaming and accessing your memories is surprisingly difficult, so you will typically not remember what you had set to achieve in your next lucid dream. That said, I think the biggest realization of being a frequent lucid dreamer is: how is it possib…
The person who told me that made it sound like they were lucid dreaming every dream. Like they learned the trick so well they couldn’t turn it off. Don’t know how realistic that is.
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#17I read about lucid dreaming on wikibooks, iirc this was before the movie inception. Do you guys actually control your dreams? How do you keep bad things from happening? More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
> Do you guys actually control your dreams?
For me, yes. Not always fully though. Depends on the level of lucidity.
> How do you keep bad things from happening?
When you are lucid, you don’t fear bad things. They seem merely interesting. In a lucid dream, usually the reality you’re in seems as real as the waking reality. Full resolution, full range of senses. Because it’s the same mechanism. Your brain is presenting a reality to your consciousness, doing the same job it does all the time, the only difference with real life is that it’s hallucinating the inputs instead of taking them from external world. Just like LLMs.
In order to maintain lucidity, you need to maintain a mental state what people with derealization disorders experience in real life: A sense of distance from what you see, touch and hear and a a constant knowledge that the world is not real. Again, because it all seems as real as the real world. Otherwise you can get caught up in the dream’s reality pretty easily, and when you do it just turns into a normal dream where you can get scared. Takes practice and meditation helps.
> More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
You start to remember them once you start journaling your dreams. People only forget their dreams because they automatically label them as unreal and thus insignificant once they wake up. You remember what you deem important.
I practiced LD for a good while back then. Then life and stuff happened. Writing this just inspired me to start the habit (of LDing) again. Thank you.
Anyone can learn it, but it gets harder with age. I don’t check HN much, mail me if interested.
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#18GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke…
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#19Didn't they used to advertise these in World Weekly News and The Fortean Times?
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#20I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
The novelty wears off. Bear in mind that you don't control when they occur. Also, a lucid dream is not quite the same experience as being normally awake -- you are still dreaming and accessing your memories is surprisingly difficult, so you will typically not remember what you had set to achieve in your next lucid dream. That said, I think the biggest realization of being a frequent lucid dreamer is: how is it possib…
You can very well control when they occur, e.g. if you do WILD (wake-induced lucid dream) techniques. There’s a lot of myths around LD.
The novelty may wear off for some people, right. I still pretty much enjoy it, though.