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[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (6 children)

so if you didn't know, humans need sleep. and lucid dreams are more being awake than being asleep neurologically speaking.

so this company wants people to basically stay awake 24/7. sure, that's gonna work out just fine. no problems here.

[–] Carlcarla@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (11 children)

"lucid dreams are more being awake than being asleep neurologically speaking."

Could you provide a source for this claim?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 15 points 10 months ago

People I think forget that REM is Rapid Eye Movement sleep which is the part where your brain is actually rewriting itself and setting new pathways but doesn't let your body feel well rested.

We need a mix of all things and we have already done studies that people can actually keep awake and working with intermittent resting with no actual deep sleep let people generate muscle mass and stay healthy right before their brain goes insane from the lack of true sleep.

This sounds so dangerous and antithetical to a long lasting healthy work force if this tries to get normalized that it will likely cause a forced evolution of our species by the people that can't maintain that dying off.

[–] hstde@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

Company doing company things.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Have narcolepsy, can confirm. The body is rested, but the brain so sleepy.

Just wait till they start hallucinating, that'll teach 'em. :/

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

Can confirm, experienced many exhausting months of rebound REM after becoming sober from alcohol

Shit sucks

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Next up: AI controlled exoskeletons so you can still work when you're dead.

[–] WhisperingEye@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah, give it 38k-ish years or so, I'm sure it will be fine by then.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

The company making those had to change their name from "Working Stiffs" after an unfortunate misunderstanding about the nature of their business.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know this is a joke, but that's just robots with a flesh body inside for no reason

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 44 points 10 months ago

Working Class: "We want wfh! No more offices!"

Corporate psychos:"Hmmm, we can work with that."

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would actually love to work in my sleep if that meant I get to live the rest of my life while awake

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol they're not going to do that

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

yeah I know lol

[–] graymess@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Every technology that increased productivity could have saved us labor time. Instead, it just increased the profits of the employers.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Are we really going to go from "The Simpsons predicted this" to "Rick and Morty predicted this"? Please let's not.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago

Working in your sleep sounds like a good way to think you've finished your work when in reality you've just written some random shit into documents.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A fight-or-flight triggering high-pitched noise plays every night starting at 21:00

The only way to make it imperceptible to you is to plug yourself into the work server

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And if you sleep quiet quit, you'll be banned from the server for day.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago

And if you point out that it's a bit fucked, many of your neighbors will tell you that your employer is actually doing a good thing because they make the noise stop, so stop complaining

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I wanted the Brave New World timeline.

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[–] toxic_cloud@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"The company has already raised more than $1 million to develop the headband and is reportedly working with one of the designers of Elon Musk’s Neuralink device."

Oh good, so there's a chance you might die from it too.

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[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As long as i would wake up refreshed and dont remember what I worked on fuck yeah i would work in my sleep.

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Watch the TV show Severance.

[–] mob@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, that's more like confidentiality... They still sleep after they forget they work.

I think Severance would probably be easier to sell if they can't remember 8 hours of work each day, but still get to be awake for the next 16 hours.

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would sleep-work for 3x12 hours and enjoy the rest of the week.

[–] eltrain123@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Ha… you’d sleep work 56 hours a week and work another 40… and like it… or else…

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[–] lugal@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I sleep 8h a day and have a 40h work week, so I wake up in the morning and am done for the day, right? Right??

[–] elvith@feddit.de 15 points 10 months ago

My boss makes a dollar and I just a dime, that's why I sleep on company t... wait...

[–] Broodjefissa@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Drug addicts and insomniacs: hmm, I'm unproductive as usual, yet it feels different

[–] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean I rather work 8 hours in my sleep and have the rest of the day off to myself, but if such thing worked it would never be like that.

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Not another. If this works, I'm actually gonna commit arson so this doesn't continue to exist.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Sleep already does that. They've researched it and found we make better decisions when we sleep on it. Problem is companies think that's too slow and have to make decisions in 5 seconds.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is absolutely a venture capital scam. The tech isn't even there for Jetsons style recreational dreaming. No way you can make tech that will extract useful work out of dreamers any time soon.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

And if you'd take the blade north to south, they'd find a way to make you work even then. Not being able to escape work even in your sleep is hellish.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Next up: New tech allows bosses to check if employees are working in their lucid dreams or having wild sex

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is literally the plot of hypnospace outlaw lmao

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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

That’s nothing new. If you’re learning an instrument, doing so in your dreams actually helps. Of course, in order to control your dreams, you need to learn lucid dreaming first.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Sorry I didn't get anything done last night, boss. That thing was happening where I can't move my limbs in my dream."

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was only a matter of time until someone tried to commercialize TCMP.

[–] guy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This is the plot of a Rick and Morty episode

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd just be working in your sleep and not working while you sleep. It's lucid dreaming, not sleep walking.

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

The brain doesn't just sleep for the sake of the body, but the brain too.

Dreams are useful for problem solving issues in our personal lives, emotional regulation, and memory. You start messing with natural dreams and you will end up with a population stricken with mental health issues.

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