Dreaming

[slipstrike0159]

Re: Dreaming

I have a hypothesis...

I mean really, if you are going to get all nitpicky you might as well reread what my phrasing was. In no way did i say it was justified, i just said that it was my own personal thought that i believed might have some relevance.

[Roy Campbell]

Re: Dreaming

By lucid dreaming, it is possible to create your own virtual reality in which you can do anything you want and you can control every aspect of a lucid dream without even using technology. However, the complexity of your dream will be limited to your imagination, which has its limits. If we had technology that could transmit information into your brain as you enter the rem sleep cycle in the right way then technology could create a virtual reality in your head and even limit what your brain can do to control the dream, which could have some very positive and very negative or horrifying results as the length and intensity of your dream could be changed and waking up could be made impossible. Death by shutting off the brain might even be possible. Time could be stretched in the dream so a 1 minute dream would seem like forever, and the reverse could also be possible. Anything our minds could process would be possible and technology could do anything to our dream within the limits of technology. By limiting what your brain could do to influence the dream a form of virtual reality with the same physical laws as reality or that of any other form of reality within limits could be created. In short, although we can lucid dream, I believe that eventually we might be able to use technology to enhance our lucid dreams. Technology can already utilize brain power to control external devices, as discussed here. There's many other websites too about this, do some google searching if you're interested. Our conscious mind, subconscious mind and technology could control our dreams and technology could be more detailed than our conscious and possibly subconscious mind in doing so.

Technology is already able to connect with our minds on a basic level by controlling the mouse cursor with mind alone, so I could see this as a possibility. Technology will still have to advance significantly before the connection between our minds and technology is possible at that level, but it does seem like the idea is within reach. The possibilities are endless, and although technology has its limits, there's no telling how advanced it will be in the years to come.

To specifically answer your question, you could program exactly what you want into the supercomputer, connect that to your brain, go to sleep, then have a dream based on what you programmed. Programming could be done somewhat easily because you could transfer your thoughts into the computer. We'd know what our subconscious wants because the computer would detect it, thus the computer could give us dreams it created.

Edit: Pardon my structure if it's a little poor, I typed this in like 40 minutes late last night and just wanted to present some sensible ideas while the thread was still active.