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.
There are plenty of techniques to induce a state of lucid dreaming that don’t involve technology that have been used for quite a while now.
Yeah, I thought it was really interesting when the article claimed half of everyone reports one.
The danger is in the accessibility though. If it’s too easy, essentially, why wake up? A healthy person probably wouldn’t be at great risk, but a borderline individual would be in grave danger imo, of it permanently fucking their priorities up.
This is the wildest “slippery slope” argument I’ve ever read.
“Hey guys, be careful you don’t get addicted to sleeping!”
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.
