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.
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.
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.
I’ll get it when they make it Lan multi-player.
This sounds kind of terrifying. I’m sure it will fly off the shelves
I’d like to point these scientists at a 2006 movie called Paprika. Might be just a touch relevant to their studies…
