People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?

Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.

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Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who does this when they’re stressed out knows how awful it is to be stuck thinking about a work problem over and over again and never feeling truly rested.

    Often I do not wake up having solved the problem, I simply wake up feeling like the problem is hopeless because I’ve been obsessing over it instead of resting and never solving it