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Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

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Once we can reliably induce lucid dreaming, and maybe with the help of some neural prosthesis to capture the output, we can recover all that lost productivity time by having people do immersive vr spreadsheet work in their dreams.

I hope we can also guide lucid dreams to a degree where we can introduce in-dream advertising.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you do this, please sell it as an intensive sleep retraining device, a la the Thim.io device except not garbage.

What’s garbage about the device? What other wearables have you tried for sleep tracking?

It just literally did not function for me (i.e. buggy software). One of those Kickstarter projects :/

This isn't really for sleep tracking. It's for sleep retraining. Basic premise is that falling asleep is a skill you can practice like any other, but it's hard to do that because you... well... fall asleep.

So this device is meant to ask you whether you're awake every minute (you say yes by tapping your finger) and once you stop responding, it triggers an alarm to wake you up. By waking up and falling asleep again repeatedly, you learn to fall asleep better.

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I wish I could become lucid during a recurring dream I've had since I was a teenager. I'm driving on a bridge over water. I look out the window and realize the bridge is either under construction or the draw bridge is coming up. Either way, I drive off. I've had this dream so often that I feel terrified driving over any bridge over water. Often I get the feeling “I've been here before” and the terror of the dream takes over. I've probably had that same dream a few thousand times.

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Once we can reliably induce lucid dreaming, and maybe with the help of some neural prosthesis to capture the output, we can recover all that lost productivity time by having people do immersive vr spreadsheet work in their dreams.

Your comment reminds of of Hillman, who described Jungian dream analysis as "strip mining of the psyche".

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I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

You have to quit THC for at least two weeks until you start dreaming again.

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I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

You have to quit THC for at least two weeks until you start dreaming again.

I had 2.5mg of thc every day for ~7 years. I couldn't remember the last dream I had when I quit thc in August. After not sleeping for 2-3 weeks I started having vivid nightmares every night for about a week. I'm still having extremely vivid dreams since, but they're no longer all terrifying. Sleeping better than ever and my anxiety is also better than ever.

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Once we can reliably induce lucid dreaming, and maybe with the help of some neural prosthesis to capture the output, we can recover all that lost productivity time by having people do immersive vr spreadsheet work in their dreams.

This is on the Metaverse road map

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I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

I’m on the wrong end of my 30s and I haven’t dreamed consistently for years (or I can’t remember it at least). I have never used THC, so I suppose there are more reasons then THC to not dream. I’ll get the odd dream on a vacation every now and then- I suspect I’m too sleep deprived on a regular basis.

Looking at my Apple Watch data, I get regular amounts of REM sleep and Deep sleep.

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I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

You have to quit THC for at least two weeks until you start dreaming again.

You do, maybe. I’m a heavy user and have and recall plenty of dreams.
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