24/7 VR dream

So last night i had a dream were me and my friend saw an add for a chip that could be implanted in the brain. I remember that there were a 6 month version and a life long version. I bought the 6 month version and my friend the life long version. After the 6 months (that was actually quite pleasant) i decided to go to his house in order to see how he was doing. When i arrived he was laying on the floor of his flat. It had also gone from a beautifully furnished dream bachelor pad to what i can only describe as a crack den. My question is what do this mean and what is the chance/risk of this happening in real life.

Dreams don't actually mean anything; your brain just has to maintain some minimum clock speed to keep its tissues warm, so it kind of spins its wheels for a while when you're sleeping

>>2202 But are the dreams connected to thoughts or previous events in any way?

>>2202 If that's your view on dreams, what makes you think being awake is any different?

>>2205 Maybe being able to control it more than a dream

>>2205 Probably about the same. Our forebrain is rarely involved in any meaningful decision making, and our consciousness is just a passenger along for the ride in most day-to-day situations. EEG machine experiments have been done which show that the motor cortex starts initializing tasks for your body several seconds before your conscious mind thinks it has made a decision, and the ramification is that often our actions are automatic--yet our forebrain likes to take credit for the decision-making and ignore the order of operations that belie the fact that it's not responsible at all. I think consciousness was probably an evolutionary accident (like all evolutionary features; they are all accidents) and it was kept around for the sake of rare moments requiring much more complex problem-solving than our mid-brain and autonomic systems are capable of. Those complex problems are way more rare than we'd like to think, and thus most of the time our conscious mind is just idling away, inventing meaning, and deluding itself into thinking it has agency. Of course, solving those complex problems have proven advantageous enough to justify the enormous energy expense. So I guess it's all worth it.

>>2201 It means that you need to stop doing everything you do because it's bullshit. Your plans for your future, your achievements, your identity, they are all soykaf and you should discard all of them in one clean sweep, or you end up like your friend who doesn't

>>2203 Probably, since your brain has to work with something. It can't draw data from another dimension or anything. I imagine it kind of like writing a program that opens up and views a random file on your hard drive over and over again. It's all stuff related to you, and because of pareidolia you'd probably start to perceive some kind of narrative despite it being random.

>>2209 Sounds interesting. Citation?

>>2209 >>3869 The studies that showed this were deeply flawed if you review them and the criticisms against them. Part of the problem is that people were given instructions prior to the experiment, and it is plausible given the power of the brain to encode those for later replay, and what was recorded was just that replay. Further studies will be needed to determine if this is the case. Also EEG studies are very noisy, inaccurate, and error prone. I wouldn't base any decisions or opinions on them at all.

Sorry to disappoint you OP, but based on your post you're already too far gone. This is your future, except with no cool VR chip, only a cheap PC and discord maybe.

I can't wait for 24/7 loli VR.