Asleep and loving it Re: They essentially IGNORED the really BIG story...

[Jeff Bone]

Gordon Mohr wrote:

> > Anyway, you heard it here first.  When people can start sleeping dramatically
> > less, they will --- and it'll signal a huge amount of social turmoil.  That's
> > my prediction.
>
> Alas, at the same time that a chemical substitute for a
> full night's sleep becomes safe and widely available,
> another chemical which offers lucid, controllable dreams
> of lifelike vividity will also become available.

Absolutely.  I look forward to the day when lucid dreaming --- recorded, shared ---
is high art.  Indeed the aforementioned Nancy Kress speculates about exactly this
in her books.  The market for such art grows considerably if you assume that there
is eventually a subset of humanity for which sleep (and therefore dreaming as we
understand it today) is not merely elective but impossible.

Other than that, I (of course) don't agree with your conclusions, but then --- why
would I? ;-)

jb