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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.

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Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, fuck that, I'm flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 21 points 11 months ago

“Yeah boss … I came up with this really cool solution while I was dreaming but I couldn’t remember it when I woke up so I’m gonna need to get some more sleep hours in to try to find it again.”

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

It's made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but Dynamo DB is also pure baloney. Who thought a single table to include every type of entity was a good design? I'm frustrated because it works so well, but boy do I hate using it

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I disagree, it's quite performant and cost effective. I work for a very large software company and it scales to our needs very well. However, it is emphatically not the solution to everything nor is it a replacement for all traditional RDBMS use cases. It also takes a quite different mindset when thinking about your data than when using SQL.

IMO what it does really well is handle being a persistent data store for well-formed REST API endpoints. When you understand your access patterns and implement your GSIs correctly, a RDBMS can't match the performance even with well tuned queries. Dynamo excels at giving you a record set when you know exactly which set of records you want and it's based on one or two very simple conditions.

Where it falls behind is for data warehousing and reporting use cases. Dynamo is comparatively slow and inefficient when it comes to asking complex questions about the data. RDBMS systems are built for that use case and as such have extensive tools to optimize whatever wild queries you want to throw at it.

If you're interested in learning about single table design, which is not good for all cases, check out this video. I've watched it quite a few times and it's been the biggest help in wrapping my head around how to do the data modeling for it. https://youtu.be/KYy8X8t4MB8

Ok my steam deck finally finished updating. Time to go. 😁

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job.......

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No you'd rather be slowly forced into working both

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'd rather die thanks.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 11 months ago

That's perfect, hook up the remote control electrodes before they're cold. Nice, another zombie worker doing 20 hours of hard labour, 7 days a week. For gruel!

Remember to go for the head, they're not getting me - Dead or alive!

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thats basically what happened with dual incomes.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my point. When options for working more appear, there is more room for pressuring people economically, and they all end up working more.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its another reason I would rather be older than younger. My janitor dad owned what I would call a castle (it was beat up but huge. something like the begining of caddy shack where the main character lived) and my mom could devote 40 hours to a combination of housework and errands and managing the kids.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm afraid that if the things keep going as projected (and such technologies will help), our kids would be super envy of us having a mortgage-funded place of our own to begin with.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also see that. as much as I would love to have been born earlier I clearly see being born later is worse and worse. In my parents time part of the "dream" was to own a home free and clear. I decade or so back I realized young folks did not even understand that. The dream was warped to be to just have a mortgage backed place at all. It feels like now its the eternal mortgage that doesn't do anything more but protect against sudden rent spikes. I foresee the dream becoming just renting a place of your own without roommates.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The latter is already happening in many regions. Some people even try to look positively on it, but it's clearly an "own nothing and be happy" mentality

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

not if you unionize

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 20 points 11 months ago

Anyone who does this when they're stressed out knows how awful it is to be stuck thinking about a work problem over and over again and never feeling truly rested.

Often I do not wake up having solved the problem, I simply wake up feeling like the problem is hopeless because I've been obsessing over it instead of resting and never solving it

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 4 points 11 months ago

It's bosses all the way up.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Employers: "Software Engineers are too expensive."

Also employers: "Why is our stuff not working?"

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"Designers are too expensive."

"Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?"

[–] Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great, now I'll get sexual harassment charges even when I'm sleeping.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

The amount of people I've had sex with in my sleep... I'd end up with several life sentences I think.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I'm gonna commit a genocide.

[–] Vladkar@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?

[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, corpo. I'll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 11 months ago

The lesser of two evils.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

That's some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Relax guys, it's just another scam start up to steal money from dumbass investors. It'll never reach a prototype.

[–] 21racecar12@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That sounds literally impossible

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I can lucid dream, but it's really difficult to make text look coherent. Even if I could visualize code, it's damn near impossible to retain the details after you wake up.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I already code in my sleep. I wake up sometimes and have code concepts ready to go. It's kinda wild.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

There's nothing like solving a coding problem in your sleep.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I've literally woken up and rushed to the computer because I came up with an answer to a problem I had while sleeping lol

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

And here I've been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

smells like stinky stinky bullshit

[–] readyno@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What you mean to say is you are developing a nervegear and we are closer to SAO than ever

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

SAO, but instead of playing in an RPG, it's just a virtual desk job

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

In a world with a solid support structure like universal basic income, where people would never be forced to sleepwork to survive, this could be quite cool. There could be some amazing artist/engineer collabs done.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

I can give a 1 better. Ive developed a technique to write code while drunk.

[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

i mean to some degree that's specifically the point of dreaming, your brain runs simulations of various stuff to train and double check things.

Like if you've just taken a boat license you'll probably be dreaming about piloting a boat for a while, because the brain wants to make sure that this apparently important task is done right.

[–] Napain@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why would an engineer write code

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it may be faster to make your own tool than put in a ticket to your global support team and then the 20 meetings on documentation and validation asssuming they go it this year. Just for something you could have made yourself in a week. Request like add a pull down to the ordering form takes like a year and that's after 5 calls and a presentation on how this will improve global sales. So much frustrating.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Hey you just described shadow it