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Sweet Dreams Are Made By This
schnoz writes "From Takara, the folks who brought you Bow-Lingual the dog translator, comes the Dream Workshop. Before going to sleep, all you have to do is stare at a photograph of what you want to dream of (Natalie Portman maybe) and record the dream plot. When you fall asleep, this gadget waits for REM and then uses your voice recording, lights, music and aroma to help direct your dream."
Why not just sell these pre-programmed with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera modules?
Maybe Thinkgeek could sell a "Natalie Portman in Hot Grits" version?
Back in the dark ages when I was in college I used to tape lectures and listen to them while I was asleep. Amazing results!
weird, i fall asleep during lectures all the time, and nothing good has ever come out of it
I can't wait to see people who screw this one up. The people with pictures of Grandma on their night table.
Karma: Raspberry Kiwi
I want to have a dream about a trip to mars. Oh, wait...
You could play some nice pranks with this toy after a scary movie.... aliens perhaps...muhahahahaha
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, now would it?' -Albert Einstein-
"From Takara, the folks who brought you Bow-Lingual the dog translator
This isn't that email i get 15 times a week proclaiming "Amazing Breakthrough In Software Technology! Turn Woofs into Words! Free Download!" is it?
stare at a photograph of what you want to dream of (Natalie Portman maybe) and record the dream plot. When you fall asleep, this gadget waits for REM and then uses your voice recording, lights, music and aroma to help direct your dream."
It's probably not recommended to have a device cooking up some grits when there's no one there to keep an eye on it. But in other news, i did hear that they are selling perfume that smells just like natalie portman!
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But wouldn't it be embarrasing if you died in your sleep and the coroner came to pick up your body a week later with a picture of Oprah beside you, while your voice described your dream date, bow-chicka-bow-bow music played, and musky perfume poured out of this thing?
weird, i fall asleep during lectures all the time, and nothing good has ever come out of it
It was me and the professor. Only, he looked different. He had daisy duke shorts on and was carrying a rifle. I approached him, and he spoke.. but I couldn't understand. I think it was another language. When I got closer, I noticed my skin was burning. And then I realized I was covered in fire ants. I jumped off of a cliff towards what looked like a pool of water at the bottom. Only when I hit it, I realized it was a pool of broken glass. I tried as best as I could to swim through the glass, but my skin was literally falling apart.. when I could no longer move, I woke up.
Needless to say, I failed the exam.
I want to see someone hack this and connect it to the web. People could then visit the site and upload their own voice tracks.
I think that could turn out to be really really amusing, although I fear what would happen if it ever got slashdotted. I'd probably end up with a dream about hanging Gates while doing naughty things with Natalie Portman on top of a beowulf cluster of hot grits while the goatse man and penis bird watch.
Increased strength, close combat, martial arts? That's not right!?
What did I get?
Advanced knitting.
-- Demolition Man
Isn't that what the cockroach, Milquetoast, in Outland was supposed to be doing by whispering into people's (well, if you consider Bill the Cat a person) ears at night?
:-D
As for me, I normally change my dream input by consuming Tequila before bedtime. It rarely disappoints.
Dream about Lord of the Rings, before you wake up and realise you have just been Tolkien in your sleep.
Has any one thought of the ethical issues that could arise from this. Directing ones dreams sounds neat and all, but what if the person that you direct in your dreams has told you not to, or they have some kind of restraining order on you.
Sure these are your dreams and controlling them I guess should be your option, but when do you cross the line? Do you need to get permission from people to use them in your dream if it's directed. I don't think they can do anything in a normal dream, but when things are pre meditated does that change things?
I would honestly think that if the average person got a hold of this they could use it for ill. I know that I don't want people dreaming about me without my permission.
One final thought, how would this work if a person has purposefully violent dreams. Has a dream about killing people for instance, would this be allowed into court, and if so would it count as premeditation.
As techs we may think it cool to make our dreams be what we want them to be, but we do have to worry about this at the ethical / legal level.
Oh and for the person wanting to know how much that is in dollars 138.486.
...or whatever the hell it's called now. I'll end up patching it in my dreams. Imagine, my perfect dream is about to come true and just before it does, "windows update is ready to install..." Then again, if it were run by linux, I'd get an error message of "this dreams requires the package lib.so.4.508 to continue." Either way, this ain't going to work the way it's advertised.
On a serious note, google up lucid dreaming and read about it. It actually works. Years ago I tried to make one of these things by having a bunch of LED's blink rapidly. It didn't work, but it was a neat form of meditation. But seriously, there's nothing like a lucid dream.
Sneak up on your victim and keep the plot but replace Natalie Portman with Ron Jeremy. 8P
96% of the people I see on a day to day basis are male. Either there is a conspericy at work here or I chose the wrong damn profession.
Well, working in the gay porno section of the newsstand would probably be the reason why you see so few women.
LK
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would be if you put images of the goatse.cx in the dream machine.
i swear if someone did that to my machine, i d use a hot iron to brand -1 Troll on his forehead
I'd like to see a movie based on the development of this product. According to the article, they are experimenting on a number of company employees, which means a Takara employee's journal could easily read like a crash course in the Twilight Zone.
/.ers saying "That's it, I'm moving to Japan!" or equivalent phrases.
Then again, the employees already live in Japan, home of used panty vending machines. For the curious, the cost is supposedly 1000 per pair.
I now await a slew of replies from pseudo-clever
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I used to get a kick out of getting guys to squirm when I lived in San Francisco with my girlfriend. Guys who only heard I was single would look at me weird, like I was contagious, and I'd just laugh, tell them that I loved it there, with so many gays it left more women for me, and they got really upset when I said they must be closet gays because real heterosexual males would rejoice at taking so many good looking sensitive guys out of competition for the women.
Infuriate left and right
"It's interesting that after having to lucid dream for 3 months straight,"
;)
Being unconscious for that amount of time isn't called sleeping - it's called being in a coma.
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