People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?
Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.
This is both draconian and absolutely retarded. Reeks of a venture capitalist who doesn’t know anything about basic biology, psychology, or technology. The lucid dreaming state is not one of intense cognitive performance and reasoning, and even if you were able to do that heavy of a workload while “asleep”, your brain wouldn’t actually be getting any sleep. When you “wake up” you would be absolutely mentally exhausted and have to go back to actual sleep.
I always wanted an Inception dream machine. What if you taught yourself a skill while in there and brought it out to the real world? I hope that one day those machines exist.
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I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I’m gonna commit a genocide.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?
That’s some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.
I’m not sleeping in. It’s OT.
I just solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN. I’m not making this up. This just happened.
I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!
smells like stinky stinky bullshit
This is both draconian and absolutely retarded. Reeks of a venture capitalist who doesn’t know anything about basic biology, psychology, or technology. The lucid dreaming state is not one of intense cognitive performance and reasoning, and even if you were able to do that heavy of a workload while “asleep”, your brain wouldn’t actually be getting any sleep. When you “wake up” you would be absolutely mentally exhausted and have to go back to actual sleep.
Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.
why would an engineer write code
Even your dreams are now corporate IP.
It’s made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.
Employers: “Software Engineers are too expensive.”
Also employers: “Why is our stuff not working?”
“Designers are too expensive.”
“Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?”
And here I’ve been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron
I always wanted an Inception dream machine. What if you taught yourself a skill while in there and brought it out to the real world? I hope that one day those machines exist.
Who needs to work 10 hours a day when you can work 24? Company owners are going to be so turned on by these news.
Also I have to say, I love how the limiting factor is our imagination but all they could come up with is about working more.