Unreality is putting a human into a fully conscious dream state with their body paralyzed.
The necessary state afterwards is to hook them up to extension hardware and software that can save ideas and thoughts they have and interface with the senses.
In this environment, you would be able to fully experience anything. You could eat and taste limitless amounts of food, fuck anything you imagine, play out any scenario, and have full lucid consciousness while in a dream state. In addition, extensions would allow you to save thought states and imagine anything.
All work would generally be done in unreality. Such as any design, content creation, and otherwise. It differs from VR in the fact that your own imagination builds the worlds and the external hardware is only to extend this capability.
Just for an example, a single person could create an entire episodic fantasy series in a few days and output it for anyone to watch. A single current video game that takes huge teams could be done in a few weeks by a child. It will also extend any reasoning ability by freeing up huge active memory space and allow you to literally "feel" equations and see algorithms in any sort of abstraction you can imagine.
Gavin Powell
You don't even know what a dream is do you? You can't experience things in a dream that you haven't experienced prior in reality you know...
A dream is only the product of the brain undergoing a maintenance of its memories which unintentionally fires neurons to create a strange image at random...
Leo King
>A dream is only the product of the brain undergoing a maintenance of its memories which unintentionally fires neurons to create a strange image at random... This hypothesis has not been rigorously tested. It's certainly plausible but we don't really have the tools to verify it.
Carson Bailey
I know but I just want OP to know that there will not be a "dream-machine" in the near future.
Dylan Taylor
Agreed, we're so many steps away from such a dream machine that I'm not sure we could even say how many centuries it'll be before it's possible.
Xavier Martinez
>You can't experience things in a dream that you haven't experienced prior in reality Depending on what you mean by this it ranges from "no shit" to "that's fucking wrong, retard" Elaborate. I've dreamed a lot of shit I haven't experienced in reality. But the things I do dream the sensation of touch/smell/taste/sound is crafted from pieces of reality. If that's what you mean, then no fucking shit you can't imagine/dream something that you can't/never imagined.
Matthew Green
you've never lucid dreamed?
Jeremiah Wood
Not even close. All of these mechanisms and chemicals are known. It will be within 3 decades. The extensions are the hard part. But triggering a lucid dream artificially is coming "soon".
Matthew Williams
There's really not much of a science when it comes to dreaming because it's hard to understand what's happening, but the idea of their hypothesis is that all dreams arise from past experiences whether you remember them or not because a dream occurs when the brain starts firing random neurons as a product of "maintenance" during sleep.
Dreams happen more than once per night usually 3 or more times which are hours apart from each other so dreams may seem choppy because REM-sleep is separated into many sessions in a normal sleep.
The amount of consciousness you have during a dream determines how well you will remember it when you wake up. If you start to wake up during a dream you will initiate the creation of new memories based on your experience (this is not heavily understood yet) such as the few moments in a dream before waking up will be easiest to remember because you will make new memories from the old one's being relived.
The reason that dreams aren't just an exact replay of a memory (many hypothesis) is because scientists are clueless as to HOW memories are stored, all they know really is that the stronger a memory is the more enforced it is in the brain in terms of neuron count.
Combining portions of memories can create new memories, for example if you have already experienced or seen blood and how it works the brain can recreate blood in a way that you haven't seen before in a dream.
A lucid dream is when you are at least conscious enough to recall or bring memories to attention which can change the path of the dream itself.
Really cool stuff, really interesting, not much of a science, but long story short, there's not going to be a dream-machine any time soon, sorry. Scientists don't know remotely enough about dreams to make such a sci-fi devise yet.
Josiah Powell
This all the result of direct brain interfacing as well. Once that API and technology is developed we will not interact with keyboards/screens/mouses. Using a "dreamscape" will be how people work, think, learn, and everything else.
You can actually transfer your understanding of a subject this way too. Just imagine designing a car in dreamscape/unreality. You create the image in your mind and the machine extension would actually interpolate/interpret the smaller details. You could then save it and look through hundreds of different looks and slight differences in minutes just with imagination. A direct interface. VR is just a stepping stone to unreality. You could go from hanging out in a western saloon to flying through space in seconds with no prior set up or existing program needed.
Not only this but you could trigger exact emotions, from happiness to utter fear.
