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[-] minnieo@kbin.social 165 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

this is gonna go nowhere per usual, but still, the very idea of working in your dreams is fucking horrifying. black mirror type shit.

[-] million@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

This concept would make a good episode.

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Rick and Morty already did it.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

Go get HYPNOSPACE OUTLAW on Steam now EVERYONE GO DO IT

ZANE RULEZ

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 63 points 11 months ago

You ever have a crazy intense epic dream and come up with this awesome new idea that you think will change the world, and after a minute or two of being awake and coming to your senses, you realize how utterly idiotic you sound? There's going to be a lot of that.

[-] digdug@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

When I was twelve, I woke up convinced that the color yellow was called yellow, because humans had figured out that word was intrinsically linked to that color.

I was devastated my "epiphany" stopped making sense after I fully woke up.

[-] lupec@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

To be fair, that's a bloody rad dream! Love the concept lol

[-] NoRodent@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Have you ever had a dream that you, you had, your, you could, you’ll do, you wants, you could do so, you’ll do, you could, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably. I have been able to lucid dream since I was a kid, if we're talking about knowing you are dreaming and controlling aspects of the dream.

It's still just your own brain, and if you're controlling it you're actually being less outside-the-box creative than in the dreams where you're not.

If you're so in control you're able to force it to do work tasks then what's going to be generated will probably be lower quality than waking tasks, not higher.

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[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 44 points 11 months ago

I sometimes lucid dream, something tips me off that it's not real, and then I can take some control. Mostly I like flying, but sometimes I go full crimefighting superhero.

Realizing you are in a dream world and deciding to work, is like winning a billion dollars and deciding to spend it all on a nice car somehow. What a boring waste.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

If you think LLMs hallucinate too much, wait till you check out code literally written during hallucinations.

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I posted this in another comment, but during uni I did in fact write code in lucid dreams. A friend can vouch for a specific time when I woke up from sleep during an all nighter, to fix a very specific bug (which I just remembered, we didn't even know it existed), then went back to sleep. On another occasion, I designed a recursive path-finding algorithm to replace djikstra's algorithm, all in my sleep.

It definitely can be done (though I doubt it could be done consistently and without actually imagining shit up), but it really shouldn't be done, I really doubt I was really resting while doing that.

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[-] Introversion@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

Software engineer says: “Fuck off and let me have a life.”

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago

Yeah, seriously.

This just sounds like a way to squeeze more work out of a person.

 

Work/life balance? What's that...

[-] Ithi@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Well if i could work well sleeping and then live my life while awake that'd be pretty sweet.

Doubt that's what a lot of company owners would want but that is maybe the only plus side of this.

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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago

I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they're often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven't lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it's some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn't trust any of my work output there.

But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.

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[-] beizhia@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

[-] dukk@programming.dev 30 points 11 months ago

If I’m going to be working in my dreams, I better get paid for it.

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 26 points 11 months ago

This is stupid for a wide variety of reasons, but one of the more interesting ones is that text is notoriously inconsistent in dreams.

A very common "reality check" to see if you're dreaming is to look at a clock or text, look away, and look back. The time/text will nearly always change.

So explain to me how they expect COMPUTER CODE to work?

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[-] BluesF@feddit.uk 23 points 11 months ago

If this is the same startup I read about a while ago... Well the technology doesn't actually exist. There's a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that's about it.

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well FWIW there are somewhat reproducible techniques, I've used them, but I couldn't tell you how I've used them if my life depended on it (honestly, brain chemical imbalances or fatigue might be a prerequisite). I actually got tired of lucid dreaming and started avoiding certain positions in bed, and started shifting around if I felt myself getting close to jumping into a lucid dream during hypnagogia.

I also worked on university assignments during lucid dreams, solved countless bugs in my code while asleep, a friend can even attest to it since one time I instantly woke up to solve a specific bug and then went back to sleep, with him right next to me (all nighters woo hoo).

It can be done. It really shouldn't be done. The reason why I grew tired of lucid dreaming is because I didn't feel like I was actually resting at all. That disconnect and peace that falling asleep gives you, it's not there for me while lucid dreaming (at least not if I jumped in through hypnagogia).

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

There's a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that's about it.

Where can I invest?

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[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

I already work in my dreams. I’m always having dreams about going back to jobs from my past. God owes me money or something.

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[-] Meltrax@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Lucid dreaming is such a cool concept. The ability to mentally experience things in a truly boundless environment, untethered by laws of physics or standards of reality.

Why the fuck would you want to waste that experience on work?

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 11 months ago

Won't anyone please think of the shareholders?!

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

If im dreaming and thinking of shareholders . . . my lawyer has advised me to not finish this train of thought.

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[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago
[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I don't entertain media with clickbait titles, and you shouldn't either.

[-] fjordo@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago

I spend enough time at work during the day, I'm not letting some manager take my sleep from me too. Fuck that.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Well this is fucking dystopian.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago
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[-] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 11 points 11 months ago

For a job this would be horrifying. But for my hobbies? This would be cool as all heck.

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Can we call this timeline a dystopia yet?

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[-] might_steal_your_cat@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm probably not a lucid dreamer, but at times when I write code all day long I may also dream about it at night. Sometimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night and write an "amazing solution" down so I can implement it the next day. Not surprisingly, most of the "amazing solutions" are total nonsense.

Edit: If this happens to you, it's probably a sign that you code way too much. I know it might be difficult, but try to relax more please.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

You have no idea the shit that's in my dreams. You wanna see me code like that?

Buckle up, chuckle-nuts.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 9 points 11 months ago

Get your beefbrain shield pro quick, we're headed into hypnospace

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No. Fuck no.

[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

This would lead to awful code, but it's 100% bullshit.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Your waking life for minimum wage and your dreams for free.

[-] amio@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?

Great The Onion stuff. Hard to make this shit up.

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