For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.

I've only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.

Plus, let's look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don't expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You're more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.

I saw the Nick Cage movie Dream Scenario and I'm going to say "fuck no get out of my head" right off the bat.

Between this bullshit and Musk's brain chips the future is looking pretty bleak.

Also I suggest people check out Made for Love. It's a show about what happens when a billionaire eccentric weirdo creates a brain chip...

Humanity loves torturing humanity.

Last night I had a dream that my cat had his own pet cat and that both of them were dancing a waltz on the corner of my bed.

In my dream I was very disappointed because I was unable to get a video of it on my phone and when I woke up I was so disappointed that it wasn't real, but I still checked my phone just in case.

I have no video or even pictures of the dancing cats, And that makes me sad.

Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

If I work in my sleep I get the day off, right?

Right?

You can completely control your dreams and do whatever you can imagine!

Ooh! Can I work extra hours?

"Does it mean I can enjoy life during day?"

"No, it means you will work day AND night."

"Does it mean I will be paid more?"

"No, you will be paid less."

Lmao I can't even imagine what crazy surrealist shit I'd come up with in my sleep.

"So, fembywho, I believe you worked last night, any progress you would like to share?"

"Ahem. Yes, uh. cough I searched for the lost spirit of my old acquaintance V from high school who bravely sacrificed herself for the good of humanity, and now is our only help against the alien menace. My companions thought her temple would be the most likely place to search, but I didn't expect to find anything. Her spirit is hiding somewhere only I can find, but I haven't been able to access that knowledge. I have seen visions and flown across many lands."

"Excellent progress. Keep us informed."

Working while sleeping and having the rest of the day for myself seems cool

I want to make sure I'm squeezed for every drop of productivity.. my purpose has become clear

did nobody learn from hypnospace outlaw?

Oh man.

We should all act like these totally work and they’re a huge boon to productivity.

Normalize mid-day office naps! PAID naps!

They literally stole this from Hypnospace Outlaw

This is so weird and not for the obvious reasons. We as a general people (worldwide) are more productive then ever and if anything there is more production then the market can handle. Even by the most cut throat thinking this is pointless. Who is going to buy the products produced by the sleep slaves?

sources and image transcript:

• the top half of the image is screenshot of this article about a startup claiming to be able to use ultrasound to induce lucid dreams so that "people can work in their sleep". (spoiler: it's vaporware)
• the lower half of the image is a screenshot from this (imo worth-watching) 2 minute video from 2016: Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence with the subtitle "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." There is a more detailed description of that video here. (Guillermo del Toro agrees.)

Qe testers around the world rejoice.

Got your stuff mostly automated,? Run those tests while you sleep.

Why does it seem that all the 80 sci-fi I watched was actually a documentary of the future...

Wasn't this on an episode of Trash Future?

Is that the movie prop from Dream Scenario?

This isn’t new. The upside is that you can, for instance, practice playing the guitar in your sleep. Or work out. It makes a measurable difference.

I wouldn't mind this if it was for my own personal benefit, not for a greedy employer who's already working me when I'm awake.