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why waste time sleeping when you could waste it paying for your CEO's lambo (slrpnk.net)

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[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 23 points 9 months ago

Lucid dreaming is just becoming aware that you are dreaming. Doesn't affect sleep quality at all. Now forcing a lucid dream seems like it might make you sleep worse, but I'm sceptical it even works tbh

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 38 points 9 months ago

I don't think anyone's saying that the lucid dreaming alone is bad.

It's exploiting the lucid dream state to force people to work when they should be resting.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

Dreams are important for your brain to do it's brain shit. Integrate memories, work out subconscious things, deal with the what-the-fiyling-fuckishness of being an ape that has an over-developed cognitive realm. Lack of REM makes your mind angry, and can literally kill you. How do you think hijacking such an important process which has evolved over millennia to do menial office work will go? Let's ask taste receptors and high-fructose corn syrup...

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So the thing is

Dreams are supposed to be the mind sorting and copying loosely connected memories for long term storage (because cells don't have a long shelf life) and therefor utilizing the brain during sleep will in theory cause a person to not perform that regular maintenance and eventually sustain permanent brain damage or loss of memory.

You are not supposed to be aware of dreaming. Dream perception is a side effect of maintenance.