Comment by matthewfcarlson
2 days ago
I read a short novel about a technology that allowed you to have a VR like experience while dreaming. Of course, there was all the fun/perverted stuff you can think of but also it was immediately put to use as a corporate tool. Over a few years, more and more white collar jobs shifted to night shifts where you worked via dream VR. Then people were available during the day to do whatever, watch their kids, pursue hobbies, etc. In many ways- it was a very promising future.
There is also a game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey where they have devices which fastens to user's face and allow one to have lucid dreams. But they are two-way so the corporation can also control that. Then there also also "unlicensed dreammachines" without tracking and restrictions and "unlicensed dreams". I liked that game (and the original point-and-click adventure too)! https://tlj.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamer_Console
I don't think this will ever work. Sleep acts as a compression for our daily life. Brains takes in daily new information and compresses it based on what we already know. The stuff dreams are made off are just a variant of what happens in day life.
powernapcomic (maritza campos) is a surreal dystopian version of this (with the corporate part turned up to 99). Excellent sci-fi and very weird...