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The Dream Recorder™

Chibi-chan

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    Hypothetically speaking, let's say a new revolutionary product just came out. The ~Dream Recorder~! It begins as a small earpiece that senses your brainwaves. Inside the earpiece is a chip that goes into a compact machine that converts your brainwaves into a DVD! From there, you could watch whatever you were thinking! So far it can record dreams, nightmares, daydreams, and visualizations. It can't record stream of consciousness. The video and audio quality in the DVD is equal to the extent of one's imaginative capabilities.

    So, do you think that this product would be beneficial or detrimental to mankind? Would it be used for good or bad? Should it be distributed as a luxury item, commodity, or strictly for government use? What would you do with it and would the images come out clear?

    ~*!*~DISCUSS~*!*~
     
    I would say, it would be more of a luxury and government item. Because first of all such thing would take A LOT of capability and I suppose would be a technology in beta for a few decades even for basic capabilities, which would be luxurious. But even more advanced like with details, brain activity, brain state, would be more of a government thing.

    It would also have a few legal problems since there are some people that dream sort of..... not G rated >_>' k?
     
    I don't see why it would detrimental to society, I would love to relive my dreams. I hate it when after you wake up they just sort of... slip away. It would just be a luxury in my opinion, because I doubt that kind of technology would be cheap and I don't particularly see how the government could benefit from it. They'd just have a bunch of videos of people talking to rashers of bacon or (as has happened in my dreams) people running away from aliens in a tractor, only to take refuge in a hockey rink. (o__O).

    On a side note, what would lucid dreams be like to watch?

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    AdvancedK47 said:
    It would also have a few legal problems since there are some people that dream sort of..... not G rated >_>' k?
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    That would open up whole new area in the... shall we say XXX industry. Amateur dreams. XD
     
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    What I hate when I have a superly cool dream, and then when someone in real life says something said or does something done in the dream, I get some kind of deja vú and don't know why. So yeah, a Dream Recorder would be epic. Also I agree with AdvancedK47 on the last sentence. XD
     
    I like the idea.

    Just as long as our dreams are our property, and not something anyone else can violate without our permission. =3
     
    This sounds great! Maybe they could try it on dead people and see what happens there...
     
    I personally hate that I can't describe subjective experiences like dreams to others in a way that I know they'll imagine it the same way I saw it, and I've always thought it'd be cool to have something like this.

    When I think about it I never bother thinking about things like who'd use it and how it'd affect society, I tend to just think of how cool it'd be to have others see what I see in my mind, since apparently I can't get it across too well with art.
     
    I don't see how it could be particularly detrimental, unless it caused dream cancer or something.

    I don't know how to use it for evil, either. I guess you could find out what scares people, and scare them again, but meh.

    Luxury item, no qualms.

    I'd use it as directed. Record dream, watch when conscious.

    My dreams would come out fuzzy, at least. They tend to be more abstract, state-of-being experiences which nevertheless link to something I can describe. Like the state of bliss I connect to Joshua of TWEWY. o.O There was also something sexual there, but I don't speak of that, I the RL.

    It could have application in understanding some of the thought processes of people with mental issues. Expanding the application to visualization would make it much more entertaining, I'm sure.
     
    This would be great. Most of the time I can remember my dreams, but usually not in much detail, or I forget them right after I wake up from one. But it would be nice to see them in detail whenever I wanted.

    Though I think some of my dreams would get me in trouble being on DVD..... 0_o
     
    I WANT IT NOW.

    Seriously, I'd love to relive some of my dreams... just seeing them again, omg <3

    Well, if I can't relive the past dreams... then meh. Since my dreams were best in 2008. Now I'm lucky to have a really nice dream once a month.

    WAIT DOES THIS RECORD LUCIDITY TOO? MAKING IT EASIER TO GET LUCID DREAMS FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T?
     
    Depends. Electronics tend to create an electromagnetic field, which may interfere with brain activity such as dreaming. I know that if I have any electronics on near me in bed I can't sleep properly. Electromagnetic fields are also linked with other problems regarding brain activity and the charges within neurons that are essential to generating an impulse.

    It could use a bit of shielding to prevent interference, even then I'd be cautious.
     
    Åzurε said:
    I don't see how it could be particularly detrimental, unless it caused dream cancer or something

    ...

    It could have application in understanding some of the thought processes of people with mental issues. Expanding the application to visualization would make it much more entertaining, I'm sure.
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    My dreams pretty much are cancerous, as I almost always have nightmares or at least gloomy, unhappy dreams. Dreams to me are often more about what I'm feeling in them than what is actually happening, hence when I describe a nightmare after the fact, people think it sounds 'cool', because all they hear are the events >.>

    I get jealous of others' dreams quite a lot 'cause everyone else seems much more capable of having cheery or epic dreams than I am. I'm quite cheerful most of the time in the waking world so I don't get why I still can't dream that way. I think something like this might help, since it would remove the need to have to explain dreams (especially ones that aren't even cohesive enough to be put in words) or the risk of leaving out something important due to forgetting. Who knows, maybe I have something repressed so far back in my mind that I'm not even aware of it, and with this thing, perhaps others might be able to help me solve the mystery.

     
    SIN1488 said:
    This would be great. Most of the time I can remember my dreams, but usually not in much detail, or I forget them right after I wake up from one. But it would be nice to see them in detail whenever I wanted.
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    That's what I'd have said <3333
    I'm glad I can have dreams, but it's so lame we can only remember SOME parts of it ;A;
    If you're dreaming about a new world or you OCs doing something, then it would be a good way to "animate" without having to draw every steps ;D /Artist mode off
     
    I'd only use it if I happened to have a dream I was particularly interesting. Most of mine involve my middle and high school days, and (despite my username) my parents owning an Oldsmobile Cutlass (which they never did IRL).

    But it always seems that it's when I'm having my most interesting dreams that I'm rudely awakened, so something like this could prove to be useful on occasion. Just as long as the recordings of my dreams didn't fall into the wrong hands, that is xD
     
    People this is hypothetical. It's not real, lol (to those who believe it's real XD).

    Anywho....you all don't think this would be detrimental in some way? What if the dreams you don't remember have some type of intrinsic meaning? Also...the porn industry would probably skyrocket. I think this would change the way society would operate a bit more.
     
    Chibi-chan said:
    What if the dreams you don't remember have some type of intrinsic meaning? Also...the porn industry would probably skyrocket.
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    I don't quite understand what you mean by intrinsic meaning, especially as teh interwebz had this to say about it;
    adj.
    Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing; inherent.
    Anatomy. Situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts. Used of certain nerves and muscles.
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    As for the porn industry booming, why is that bad?
     
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