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Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

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Re: Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

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While I'm looking for a solution to prevent lucid dreams...

I have a neighbor who watches TV all night, and they’re up early. I’ve met several people like this. It’s a thing.

I doubt it’s a “trip” they’re after.

I’ve thought about their dreaming, and my hypothesis is tv noise tricks the brain to not identity or disassociate from the dream. I guess they sleep better than when they sleep in silence.

Re: Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

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GPT-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…

Would you rather live in Gaza right now or your “dystopia”?

You're being downvoted because a lot of people don't like off-topic politics here, but you're right that a lot of imagined sci-fi dystopias that we get scared of in comment sections are not realistically as bad as what people around the world are actually going through right now.

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I've had the ability to induce lucid dreams for years now. What they aren't telling you is that it's very easy to lose oneself in the fantasy of it all. At worst, it can induce complete detachment and schizophrenic-like symptoms.

How do you do it? I've only ever had a few and they seem to come on at random.

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GPT-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…

turns out that becomes the perfect state for navigating hyperspace freight lanes

melatonin becomes the most expensive drug ever

the spice must flow

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you rather live in Gaza right now or your “dystopia”?

You're being downvoted because a lot of people don't like off-topic politics here, but you're right that a lot of imagined sci-fi dystopias that we get scared of in comment sections are not realistically as bad as what people around the world are actually going through right now.

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Re: Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

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post #13

GPT-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…

Reminds me of this scene in Inception: https://youtu.be/K_M201T-UsQ?t=85
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