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originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: TzarChasm
Or, perhaps, just hear me out, intellectual laziness on your part
awakening is just a google search away
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: TzarChasm
Forcing people who demand regurgitated spoon fed opinions to investigate and see for themselves is the ground floor of the great awakening
When brewing giant Coors launched a new advertising campaign earlier this year, the format came as a surprise to many. The company was planning to infiltrate people’s dreams to get them to buy, and presumably drink, Coors beer.
Coors encouraged people to watch a short online video before bed, then play an eight-hour “soundscape” through the night. If successful, this “targeted dream incubation” would trigger “refreshing dreams” of Coors, according to the company.
“Anything you could imagine an advertising campaign for, at all, could arguably be enhanced by weaponizing sleep,” Stickgold said.
Stickgold was one of the co-authors of a recent open letter which sounded the alarm over companies using targeted dream incubation in June. The letter was signed by 35 sleep and dream researchers from around the world.
“You could have this sort of 1984 situation where advertisers buy advertising time on these devices, and nobody ever knows they’re hearing them.”
The key to TDI is a special state of sleep called hypnagogia, or NREM 1. This is a term for the entrance to sleep, where it turns out that the brain undergoes a gradual, piecemeal descent into unconsciousness, not at all like the On/Off switch most people assume occurs as sleep begins. There are in fact 9 separate stages of descent into sleep even before we are fully unconscious, and each of them is a kind of hybrid state where the brain is transforming electrically and chemically. In TDI we aim for the middle of this descent into unconsciousness, at a moment when the brain has begun to enter the dream-state but the senses are still engaged and, crucially, subjects can still hear.
Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device - Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 83, August 2020. The paper references 74 scholar papers on sleep & dreams.
While dream content can predict post-sleep memory enhancement, dreaming itself remains a black box. Here, we present a novel protocol using a new wearable electronic device, Dormio, to automatically generate serial auditory dream incubations at sleep onset, wherein targeted information is repeatedly presented during the hypnagogic period, enabling direct incorporation of this information into dream content, a process we call targeted dream incubation (TDI).
It appears to me that either they are a puppet or they are a weirdo being exploited as a decoy aka a government sanctioned asset to keep everyone looking where you will find crumbs but not nuggets, drip feeding the eager audience their own dressed up theories one tantalizing tweet at a time
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: TzarChasm
It appears to me that either they are a puppet or they are a weirdo being exploited as a decoy aka a government sanctioned asset to keep everyone looking where you will find crumbs but not nuggets, drip feeding the eager audience their own dressed up theories one tantalizing tweet at a time
I think Q is an alien and that's why we don't know who they are. It isn't time for that just yet.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: Bigburgh
Makes sense when you consider that Matt Groening appears to be a time traveler.
It appears to me that either they are a puppet or they are a weirdo being exploited as a decoy aka a government sanctioned asset to keep everyone looking where you will find crumbs but not nuggets, drip feeding the eager audience their own dressed up theories one tantalizing tweet at a time
originally posted by: boneappleteet
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: Bigburgh
Makes sense when you consider that Matt Groening appears to be a time traveler.
Never seen such a preposterous fluffing of the Satanic calendar
Time travel isn't real kids
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: TzarChasm
Or, perhaps, just hear me out, intellectual laziness on your part
awakening is just a google search away
A dedicated ruse then, because as you just proved, anyone with a functional internet connection and a surplus of free time to waste on material research can fabricate a "clue" and use real world terminology to make it convincing.