9 comments

  • CrzyLngPwd 7 minutes ago
  • thenthenthen 8 minutes ago
    Two months ago my partner recorded me speaking in my sleep. I was speaking fluent Mandarin. I always thought sleep time is used for learning (among healing etc), but now I am convinced.
    • detribaby 1 minute ago
      Well you’ll have to give us more. Do you speak Mandarin at all?
  • Xeoncross 21 minutes ago
    AI does the work during the day and we learn while sleeping. Society doesn't collapse from ignorance. We have a new movie plot gentlemen.
  • jesse_dot_id 13 minutes ago
    Lucid dreaming is a cool concept but I've never been able to pull it off. I still try, though!
    • JumpCrisscross 4 minutes ago
      It sort of just happened to me a few years ago. It’s neat—flying is fun. (As is the opposite, when it just doesn’t work and I wake up sort of laughing at myself for having spent, presumably, hours jumping around in my dream.)

      But at least for me, the price was dreams, the moment I go lucid, ceasing to be self directed. I get that I’m in a movie, and I have to always create the next step. Nothing surprises or horrifies anymore. (If I’m lucid.) I have to kind of create my own magic, which isn’t particularly restful.

      • karmakurtisaani 0 minutes ago
        Yep, same. The dream gets incredibly boring after you get control of it.
  • redsocksfan45 32 minutes ago
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  • tkfoss 35 minutes ago
    tl:dr "Andrillon warned against trying to harness the sleeping mind in the service of the waking world." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-024-00276-0
    • econ 3 minutes ago
      Proper sleep definitely isn't optional.
  • metalman 45 minutes ago
    There is no such thing as "should". The thing is possible, therefore humans will do it. The only question is, who is we?
    • azan_ 36 minutes ago
      Well, you shouldn't smoke yet people do it. I think the article posits question whether we should in similar spirit.
  • econ 39 minutes ago
    After two weeks I woke up and didn't notice it was German tv. Eventually after 5 minutes an unknown word came along. I still can't speak it.

    When 13 i use to code till 1-2 am. In school I slept with my eyes open till 11. The information was stored and organized but I was unaware of it. I remember tests where all of the questions talked about topics I never spend a conscious thought on. But I knew all the answers. Quite the surreal experience.

    Teachers sometimes wondered if I was still in the room or they just asked questions. My mind would grep the most recent chunk of speech, parse it and respond as if nothing unusual was going on. The mind raced but I talked slowly to portray the slight delay more natural.

    I learned you don't want other people's bullshit in your head. It needs to be questioned first.