We're wasting precious company time each night.

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.

"lucid dreams are more being awake than being asleep neurologically speaking."
Could you provide a source for this claim?
- "TL;DR: more info needed, but probably not great for you."
- don't have one. but i heard someone cite a study where people who lucid dream a lot are generally less rested even after sleeping 8+ hours. from that i drew the conclusion that lucid dreaming is basically dreaming, but more awake.
- The source is called sleep science. You should look into it.
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.
Company doing company things.
Can confirm, experienced many exhausting months of rebound REM after becoming sober from alcohol
Shit sucks
Have narcolepsy, can confirm. The body is rested, but the brain so sleepy.
Just wait till they start hallucinating, that'll teach 'em. :/

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

I'm scared of the future
- Nah, give it 38k-ish years or so, I'm sure it will be fine by then.
The company making those had to change their name from "Working Stiffs" after an unfortunate misunderstanding about the nature of their business.
I know this is a joke, but that's just robots with a flesh body inside for no reason
- But you can claim tax breaks for them if you pretend they're people.
- No need fleshy body. Replace the working class with robots. Got it /s

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

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

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

Lol they're not going to do that
- yeah I know lol
Every technology that increased productivity could have saved us labor time. Instead, it just increased the profits of the employers.
Are we really going to go from "The Simpsons predicted this" to "Rick and Morty predicted this"? Please let's not.
- huh?

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.

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

And if you sleep quiet quit, you'll be banned from the server for day.
- 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
Wait, I wanted the Brave New World timeline.
- I would have settled for the Brave New World album. Or even just the single
I hate this.

"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.

But it will have a autowork function that will do your dream work for you up until you quit watching it work. Then it will crash you into a parked semi truck. Provides once and for all that you can die in real life if you die in a dream. Patient pending

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

Watch the TV show Severance.
- 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.
- What do you think they do there. In the company?
I would sleep-work for 3x12 hours and enjoy the rest of the week.
- Ha… you’d sleep work 56 hours a week and work another 40… and like it… or else…

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??

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

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

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.

Aren't dreams like a fraction of our sleep? You'd probably be getting a couple hours at most in an 8 hour period
- Well they are creating a device that triggers and can help to control lucid dreaming.... So... Uhh no this would have you dreaming that you are working for the full amount of time you are asleep basically

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Has to be a scam. Good on them, though. If private equity firms and venture capitalists have all the money, take em for all you can get.
The tech stimulates a state of lucid dreaming, and the idea here that you can work while you sleep stems from the fact that if you are aware of and in control of your dream, you can choose to work on solving complex problems in them. They're not actually going to make you work in your sleep or even induce a dream that forces you to dream about working. Merely giving you a lucid dream and letting you control what happens.
I wouldn't be working. I'd be exploring space and time... And riding dinosaurs.

This is literally the plot of hypnospace outlaw lmao

Insanely underrated game, absolutely love it.

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.

This is the plot of a Rick and Morty episode

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

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

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.

If I can do half of the work in my sleep and half in the day I would. It's like waking up and being already half done with work.

Oh honey, you think they would give you less waking work?
That just means you get twice as much work done. The boss man won't let you get away with less awake time because "I need you to be available in case there's a problem"

Hell yeah! I can't wait for Hypnospace internet!

You first. Also, I call dibs on slaughtering you for the wealth you acquire as a result.

This is great, honestly.

Market it as a productivity tool to raise money from rando VCs, make a product that can be used by anyone for anything, I win by getting to, uh, have fun with people in my dreams.