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We'd never wake up I imagine. What'd be the point? I have heard true lucid dreaming described as being like the holodeck. Suddenly Nozick's Experience Machine b

We'd never wake up I imagine. What'd be the point? I have heard true lucid dreaming described as being like the holodeck. Suddenly Nozick's Experience Machine becomes an alarming possibility which must be considered seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine

ComputerGuru 15y ago
This is more true than you realize. Many days I will awake from a lucid dream and go back to sleep for several more hours to discover/continue. "Waking up" from that is like being pulled out of an RPG game right in the middle of an exciting action sequence. Also, sometimes when I'm feeling bored or a little depressed, I'll go to sleep for the excitement/entertainment factor (it's a letdown if I don't end up in a lucid dream, but you can't always have everything in life :)
- unimpressive 15y ago
  I do this and I don't even lucid dream. However, to say that we'd never wake up might be a bit of an exaggeration. Until all labor is automated in some way shape or form, eventually someones going to need to get up to keep the water running. You also have to remember that people sort of have this tendency to die when they don't eat or drink. Though I guess thats one way we could all never wake up. Have a lucid dream thats so compelling that you can't justify it to yourself to get up for food and water. EDIT: On the other hand, you could feed people intravenously. But a matrix of solipsism probably doesn't sit right with a significant portion of humanity.
- meow 15y ago
  Happens for me too :) .. Some days I seed what I want to dream about before sleeping (usually by watching a related genre movie).. I can go back to the same dream if interrupted for a few minutes (5-10).. not hours though... Once in the dream and after realizing that it is a dream - I can control most of the things (environment, flying, running on four legs etc) - though I keep moving in/out of that realization...sort of like inception... :)
  - salemh 15y ago
    Be wary of trying to further "lucidate" the lucid dream into another lucid state. I've woken up going a few tiers into such very dissasociative from reality for several (4+ hours) over weekends :) EG: building in my dream a "jump pad" standing upon such, to "jump" to an even deeper reality, etc. It sounds wonky, but, throwing it out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder Subset: Depersonalization disorder: periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as "unreal" (lacking in control of or "outside of" self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.

ComputerGuru 15y ago

This is more true than you realize. Many days I will awake from a lucid dream and go back to sleep for several more hours to discover/continue. "Waking up" from that is like being pulled out of an RPG game right in the middle of an exciting action sequence. Also, sometimes when I'm feeling bored or a little depressed, I'll go to sleep for the excitement/entertainment factor (it's a letdown if I don't end up in a lucid dream, but you can't always have everything in life :)

unimpressive 15y ago
I do this and I don't even lucid dream. However, to say that we'd never wake up might be a bit of an exaggeration. Until all labor is automated in some way shape or form, eventually someones going to need to get up to keep the water running. You also have to remember that people sort of have this tendency to die when they don't eat or drink. Though I guess thats one way we could all never wake up. Have a lucid dream thats so compelling that you can't justify it to yourself to get up for food and water. EDIT: On the other hand, you could feed people intravenously. But a matrix of solipsism probably doesn't sit right with a significant portion of humanity.
meow 15y ago
Happens for me too :) .. Some days I seed what I want to dream about before sleeping (usually by watching a related genre movie).. I can go back to the same dream if interrupted for a few minutes (5-10).. not hours though... Once in the dream and after realizing that it is a dream - I can control most of the things (environment, flying, running on four legs etc) - though I keep moving in/out of that realization...sort of like inception... :)
- salemh 15y ago
  Be wary of trying to further "lucidate" the lucid dream into another lucid state. I've woken up going a few tiers into such very dissasociative from reality for several (4+ hours) over weekends :) EG: building in my dream a "jump pad" standing upon such, to "jump" to an even deeper reality, etc. It sounds wonky, but, throwing it out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder Subset: Depersonalization disorder: periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as "unreal" (lacking in control of or "outside of" self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.