• Ebahn13@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    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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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

      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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        11 months ago

        You don’t need a dumb device to have lucid dreams.
        You’re also completely missing the point, but whatever.

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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

      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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        11 months ago

        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.