Dreams

#idea#problem Aside from general problems, life has a couple of meta-problems that I think about often:

Life can get boring

To solve this, we need to foster experiences. The best experiences tend to be immersive (escape rooms, horse riding). They also tend to involve people. The most direct way to achieve this is virtual reality. Good virtual reality seems very promising, but it is limited by traditional compute problems: graphics, speed, and size. Pushing forwards on that front seems promising, but not easy. I don’t see myself finding breakthrough in that field anytime soon.

We have limited time

Current solutions tend towards that of longevity or bio-therapeutics, but I think there are ideas of retaking ownership of time that we have but can’t use. Intuitively, these times are those of: eating, transportation, hygiene (bathroom), and sleeping.

Dreams

Dreams are the most creative and immersive experience that most have in their lives. And luckily, they happen in our sleep! Some people perceive dreams to feel longer than they are, but there isn’t any definitive evidence on this. I want to utilize dreams better, and to achieve the reality I want to, I need the following features:

• Vivid dreams
• Increasing dream memory retention
• Lucid dreaming on command
• Multiplayer dreams

How to dream well

• The best technique is to actually start recording a log of dreams that you have

How to lucid dream

• Markers:
  • Look at the fine details of your palms
  • Put one hand “through” another

Big Idea: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound

• A non invasive way to “control” small neuron clusters
  • Never before possible
• Generally, this could affect everything:
  • How much sleep you need
  • How much you need to eat
  • Essentially a method to make super-soldiers
• But let’s do it for something more fun
  • Induce lucid reaming with TFUS
  • (hard because it is in the hippocampus)
  • Activate nueronal clusters relating to the same memory at the same time between friends
  • No way to record the brain to that accuracy yet, but once we can—we have multiplayer dreams!