This is a fascinating topic, and I’d be interested in the feasibility of other interventions to improve the quality of our dream-lives (lucid dreaming can also be extremely pleasant!).
I’m uncertain about how intense, relative to waking, is our conscious experience of dreams. I think a less vivid experience can justify a discount.
I think I would trade several dreaming hours of 9⁄10 for a waking hour of 9⁄10 pleasantness. This may be biased by my poor memory of my dreams. Maybe I’d make the same tradeoff if asked while in REM. I’ve also had a friend tell me she’d trade half a day to prevent an hour of her nightmares, which is troubling.
Would anyone else chime in on how they’d make this tradeoff from a completely self-interested hedonic perspective?
This is a fascinating topic, and I’d be interested in the feasibility of other interventions to improve the quality of our dream-lives (lucid dreaming can also be extremely pleasant!).
I’m uncertain about how intense, relative to waking, is our conscious experience of dreams. I think a less vivid experience can justify a discount.
I think I would trade several dreaming hours of 9⁄10 for a waking hour of 9⁄10 pleasantness. This may be biased by my poor memory of my dreams. Maybe I’d make the same tradeoff if asked while in REM. I’ve also had a friend tell me she’d trade half a day to prevent an hour of her nightmares, which is troubling.
Would anyone else chime in on how they’d make this tradeoff from a completely self-interested hedonic perspective?