The best case scenario is that this is just another startup grift, but I know that if :porky-happy: can pay his way into our sleep, he will. What's going to stop him? :agony-minion:
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According to a recent essay published by researchers from Harvard, the University of Montreal and MIT in Aeon Mag, 77 per cent of all marketers and advertisers plan to use “dream-hacking” techniques to begin invading our dreams with advertising within the next three years.
A core topic of the essay was the recent Molson Coors beer marketing campaign, where the company offered free beers to people in exchange for taking part in a “dream incubation study”, as reported by American Craft Beer.
The dream study had participants watch a short marketing video that included talking fish, hypnotic visuals, mountainous landscapes and dancing beer cans, resembling something out of a wild PCP trip.
The beer company also featured One Direction star Zayne Malik live-streaming himself falling asleep watching the video on Instagram earlier this year.
A SLIPPERY SLOPE
The scientists say in the Aeon essay that:
“We now find ourselves on a very slippery slope. Where we slide to, and at what speed, depends on what actions we choose to take in order to protect our dreams.”
They went on further to say that the team of scientists are “also baffled by the lack of public outcry over the mere idea of having our nightly dreams infiltrated, at a grand scale, by corporate advertisers.” Also making reference to what was once “science fiction” now becoming a reality.
Analysts predict the practice will be enforced upon in the same manner the American Federal Trade Commission enforces its federally mandated rules against the use of un-informed consent of subliminal advertising.
Subliminal advertising has been banned in many countries across the globe due to the ethical issues surrounding the act of implanting thoughts into a person’s subconscious without their consent.
DREAM INCUBATION HISTORY
Dream incubation stretches back more than 4,000 years to ancient Egypt and has been practised by many ancient cultures.
“Sleepers lay in sacred beds in the Ṣaqqārah Serapeum to receive divine dreams; to ancient Greece, where ailing people went to dream in oracular temples; to today, where dream incubation plays a key role in healing, therapeutic and spiritual practices such as yoga nidra and Mohave shamanism,” wrote Aeon Mag.
So maybe Coca-Cola and Heineken filled dreams are something we should all be expecting for the future – or dreading.
lucky for me I don't dream in enough detail for this to be possible. everything looks like it's solid and there but if I stop and look closely, I can't actually tell what's written on signs or resolve the texture of grass.
god this shit is dystopian.
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I'm too ADHD to ever figure out what any given sign is supposed to be in a dream. when I try, the dream gets stuck in a never ending hallway as my brain tries to figure out something adequate. most of my dreams get stuck in never-ending hallways of one kind or another, until I wake up a bit and go back to sleep into a new dream, forgetting whatever detail was bugging me in the first place. needless to say, lucid dreaming was both easier and harder than you'd think to learn - it's easy to tell I'm dreaming and to try to exert some control but it's virtually impossible for me to do anything interesting with that control cause as soon as I do I get stuck in a loop.
I'd extremely like to dream like the rest of the planet sometime, it sounds like so much fun.