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Neat. When do they release the home lucid dream inducer?

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Blue tooth

IOT enabled (Blink the lights while exploring the underside)

Spotify integrated

Tinder enhanced

Facebook dreams comparability

Google drive flow (work in your dreams!)

Udemy stream (I know kung fu)

Tesla wheel dream (dream while you drive? / dream about your next car..?)

Hackers exploit the platform leaving 1000's trapped in their dreams, demand btc.

Black Mirror, season 5. Make it happen Mr. Brooker.

Already happened in season 4 episode 1.

You forgot to mention the ads. Subconscious impressions have to be worth a lot.

Just as Futurama predicted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSDb-oI808

Oh yes this. Ideally we want it closed source but with a backdoor or ten so that you can control anyone’s dreams though the Internet.

If you're into video games, you should play Dreamfall Chapters.

The Longest Journey was one of my favorite games. I've been holding off on Dreamfall, but I should probably get it when I can find the time.

Mine too. I felt Dreamfall was a bit 'light' compared to the depth and charm of The Longest Journey. But I feel that Dreamfall Chapters is finally a worthy successor (though still not at the same height of 'all-time classic' as the original is for me, but few things are).

I liked The Longest Journey a lot back in the day. A bit too talkative for my taste, but I loved the world-building, the characters -- I especially loved April, of course -- and the unconventional "plot twist" at the end.

I didn't like Dreamfall. I didn't like what they did to April, and found the new characters uninteresting. Never played Dreamfall Chapters.

and your fidget spinner can function like the spinning tops in Inception to tell you whether or not you are in a dream (so there really is a purpose for those things!)

Just look at your hand. In a lucid dream, your hand doesn't quite look like a normal hand.

The nose-plug check is more reliable and physiologically based: pinch your nose so that your nostrils are blocked, shut your mouth and breathe in. If you're dreaming you'll breathe in anyway since your nostrils aren't actually blocked.

Doesn't always work though. "Let's see... Seven fingers - yep, I'm awake."

Don't even look; just poke a finger through your palm. When dreaming, the rendering engine is still turned on, but clipping is off, and the physics engine is switched to a simplified model.

You can also breathe without an open airway, so the Valsalva maneuver does not work. As I need to do this several times during the day to relive underpressure due to my crap eustachian tubes, this is an immediate tell for me. Then I poke my finger through my palm, and usually get so excited about figuring out that I'm dreaming that I wake myself up. I've heard that you can spin around as though you were trying to make yourself dizzy to avoid waking, but it never seems to work for me.

Intel Management MEDC Dream Control

So this is how inception starts.

Integrates with fitbit to track your exercise in your dreams...

"Alexa, what is the weather like in my dreamscape?"...

> Google drive flow (work in your dreams!)

Pomodoro sleeping for a double win.

Work in your dream could be nice

1. Buy an EEG headset. 2. Train a neural network to determine when you're asleep. 3. Apply current when asleep.

Then maybe this will face the same legal regulation as drugs ;) I think that devices can help a bit more but are not really needed if you read the publications of researchers like Stephen Laberge. Because there are also other tricks which increase the chance, and still all seem to require practiced awareness and during daytime.

What I'd like to know is if lucid dreaming attains the same quality of rest as normal dreaming. I doubt long-term effects of lucid dreaming have been studied.

It’s called DMT

Calea Zacatechichi too.

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