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Net Connected Dream Inducer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-when-we-had-to-hunt-to-survive dept.

Chudmorph writes "Philips is developing some odd thing they call Nebula. In a nutshell, it's "an interactive projection system designed to enrich the experience of going to bed, sleeping and waking up." "The system consists of a ceiling projector linked via the Internet to a database of content. The content consists of just about anything ranging from an alarm clock, to clouds, and even poetry." This thing even responds to body movements! " Here's a review, but I gotta believe that this is a joke.

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  1. No escape. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Not that I'd do it or anything, never - but the possibilities of full scale goatse'ing with this device must be considered.

  2. Hypnagogic dreaming by blakestah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It has been known for some time that the earliest stages of dreaming can be strongly influenced by sensory input just before going to sleep. Whereas you cannot predict exactly what will be in the dream, it is fairly certain some of it will relate to what was happening just before you fall asleep. This is not as true of dreams later in the evening.

    There is a nice trio of reviews of theories of sleep and dreaming in the latest issue of Science.

  3. Just in.... by Sanglant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thankfully several well known companies have
    stepped to the plate and will be offering anti-virus
    software for the device. Despite early reports there
    is no evidence to support any correlation between
    usage of the device and spontaneous proclamations
    of "A compliant citizen is a happy citizen! Privacy
    is for Bad People!"

    -Franklin Beach Investigator, Nov. 25, 2001

  4. Popular In Japan by r.suzuka · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hello. These devices, or similar devices, are actually quite popular in Japan. It is a headset that one will wear while one is preparing to go to sleep. The device actually monitors the on set of Rapid Eye Movement sleep and when such sleep is detected, a bright red light is shined into the wearers eyes.

    The idea is that when the wearer detects this red light he will be able to recognize it as a cue that he is dreaming. Henceforth he is able to imagine whatever he would like in the dreams. There is a brief English phrase for such a state of dreaming, but I cannot recall it at the present.

    I will be happy to find more information on these devices if it would be interesting to anyone else. Thank you.

    R. Suzuka

    1. Re:Popular In Japan by nido · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ah, been there, tried that.. My problem is kinda weird, in that I literally don't dream very vividly visually. I'll wake up and remember a story line, but there are few visual impressions to go along with that storyline. That being said, I once saw a sort of massage therapist (actually a "trigger point therapist") thrice last spring, and for a week and a half afterwards I had the most incredibly visually intense dreams in my life. And then I started to write them down (like you're supposed to), and the visual aspect of the dreams cut out. Just like that. At the time I wasn't sure what to attribute the dreams to (I'd gone home for spring break, had started taking a magnesium supplement, had steak & the like for the first time in months, and saw the trigger point lady), but I've recently been told that it was, in all likelyhood, the bodywork.. So tomorrow I'm going to call people who do Craniosacral therapy. And hopefully the dreams will return.

      I've tried it all - vitamins, herbs, dream journels, reality checks, alone and in combinations, nothing else has brought the sort of intense dreaming I now know is possible. Feel free to email if anyone would like to talk about the subject..

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  5. What if it... by rockwood · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everyone knows that a subliminal state of mind is very powerful and has been thoeretically tested and proven based on case study. A major concern of something I am unaware of is: How immediate are the effects of subliminal suggestions?

    IE: What would happen if the 'net connection were to dropped during a suggestive state.. would we become vegatables?
    What if the screen skipped.. would we wake up with a stutter? Or what if the content was hacked and tomorrow we all woke up and found ourselves transferring our money to some off-shore account and killing or neighbors?

    I know this sounds far fetched... But in reality, if the content was hacked and a idea or suggestion was implanted into the imagery.. how long (if ever) would it take to be discovered? And when it was.. would it be to late? Who would be responsible?

    Hell, maybe the message can reprogram your mind to never see the message in the first place.

    All your bases belong to us!

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