Technological high: Dream a little dream
Have you ever awoken from a dream so real, you are unsure if it was a dream at all? Were you glad or did you want to return? Were you a super hero, did you find the person of your dreams, were you good looking, rich, popular?
Imagine walking through life seeing it as it should be, beautiful. The glory of nature, gorgeous sunsets every evening and everyone you meet, perfect in all the ways you can imagine them. All of them.
Picture your wife, your husband, your partner and count their flaws. Why must you look at them each day, wouldn't you rather perfection, wouldn't they want you to see them as perfect? Look into the mirror, anything you want to change?
People are worried about fake news and how can the words of world leaders be trusted giving the ability to fake motions and words but, like all technology, that is not where the danger lies, it is in the entertainment of it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so, just think how cool it will be to be able to slide on a pair of augmented realty (AR) glasses and see the world as you wish to see it. See the people you wish to see in that world. To go to the beach and only see the toned bodies of athletes, to work and be surrounded by the rich and famous. Who will you go home to, your husband or, the object of your real fantasies? The star from your favorite movie or, a different person each night?
What would happen if we could choose the avatar we wanted others to see? Would you project your true-self out into the world or, would you make tweaks? How heavy would those tweaks be, are you still recognizable?
Perhaps surgery could implant the technology, no more glasses, just see the world as you choose to see it. A pull down screen of options, zero cellulite and unblemished skin of course unless, that is what you choose to see.
What would you choose? A bar filled with the most beautiful who see you as you choose to be or, reality? Wouldn't a little augmentation be okay?
In a world as beautiful as this, why would you be watching the news, why would you be paying attention to anything other than what you want to see. Gandhi said "Be the change", but why, when you can change the world to suit your desires instead?
Just think of how much easier life would be to no longer have to worry about how you look to others, nor even to yourself. Each day you could pick a fresh face, a new style of clothing a different body and experience the world as you choose, live in a home of your design. The smallest, most basic apartment could appear spacious, luxurious and filled with the best of everything.
Would that make you happy? Will seeing wealth make you feel wealthy, will being surrounded by beauty make you feel beautiful? Fake it til you make it or, make it all into a fake. We curate our online social lives now, why not fashion our real world similarly?
We can fill our 'live feed' with only what we want to see and we could even potentially adjust what we hear. Filter out the negative, enhance the positives. Race issues could be a thing of the past too, just filter the colors you do or don't want, manipulate the voices to match the views.
All of this, on the fly while we live our lives. No lag, no login, wake up and go...
Wake up. Why wake up when the dream is reality?
Taraz
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No to that kind of fake "perfect" reality. If you don't see the bad, you won't see the good as well. And the real thing is always the real thing, it has value.
Since you mention Gandhi, I believe it was also he who said "Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
That kept popping into my mind, as I read this... and I just can't get past my own practice for living, which is that when we start to daydream and wish for something to be better/perfect, it's actually an alarm bell (and an invitation!) letting us know that we need to work on something in our lives.
My personal belief is that all the "things" and all the "simulations" in the world ultimately are not capable of making us happy. It's a bit like the world of the Matrix... it may be lovely, but somehow we KNOW it's fake. And so, we might journey through the illusion for a while, but then we end up looking for the Red Pill.
I agree. To me, the world I described is dystopic yet, people chose it in many subtle ways every day.
And like above, the blue pill keeps getting repackaged and branded and most keep buying in.
Well, I can't help but feel I'd play Orpheus in this augmented reality scenario of yours. I could see X as what I want him to be, and through my correcting lenses, he would become that, but I'd always feel the need to check. To take the glasses off and see if he's really become this way or if it's just the glasses.
Why would I want something that isn't real? Especially from someone else...
As for what I'd change about myself, I'd definitely be recognizable. I don't want to change much about me because I love me. Changing myself seems such a silly idea...I'm happy with who I am, with how I look, how I think. It's enough.
I wonder how peer pressure would affect people, if there would be sub groups of users and non and if people would separate based on what they saw, not the reality. It would essentially be an amplifier of what we have now, would it?
Who says what we see is reality? ;)
the only thing we seem to be certain about is that we are conscious, I am conscious. I can't speak for you or any other, nor you for me. What this means is that our own consciousness is the only thing that is real but we cannot be sure if it is telling the truth since we have conditioned it to work on assumption and habit. reality would then be the view of consciousness through an unconditioned mind, a free mind. Is it possible? that is the journey.
A dose of real life for me please. Will take it every time even if it sucks and punches me in the nuts every once in while.
My idea of escapism doesn't really go beyond watching a few anime or superhero movie. Even then when the action sequence defies physics than my brain auto corrects it to reality.
I personally think you must dream about things but staying in dream is even worse than not dreaming. Set a goal that you want to achieve and go for them.
living in world of dreams wont change your reality you explained it in a great way. It defiantly won't!!!
Be yourself and pull off that goal of yours that what matters.
Yea what good is it for if its not the reality, even though reality might be tough but still its what you really are in!
This paragraph got me the most, sooo much easier, we are easily so caught up in running other peoples race because of impression
We need to realise the need of trying our possible best to surround ourselves with positivity, filter out every negativity
Why wake up when im living my dream
I choose reality over illusion every time I think, at least now in my life.
edited: @mistakili
Reality of illusion....hmmmm
This is inspiring. Very true
We can fill our 'live feed' with only what we want to see and we could even potentially adjust what we hear. Filter out the negative, enhance the positives. Race issues could be a thing of the past too, just filter the colors you do or don't want, manipulate the voices to match the views.
I really think having access to an augmented reality will be detrimental -kind of like drug abuse. But if I have to imagine it'll be Hawaii all day long baby... With a handsome Mr Right
Lady in the picture is absolutely gorgeous
lol, I think it is already abused, watch people on their phones in public.
My wife.
Hi Taraz. That would be boring. I think the dreams we have are what we subconsciously strive for and feel is missing in our life. I normally don't remember what I dream about. Maybe that is a good thing.
They say that you can die of a heart attack if you dream that you are falling off a building and hit the ground. Most of us wake up before we hit. I don't know how you could prove it lol.
I agree, people seem to like happy lives, even if not real.
The world needs us to have beautiful dreams, more lenses, more filters ... The world needs us happy, not to think about war, only couples in the dance, families on the beach, without economic problems and huge smiles.
So, no reality?
only spaces of reality, like spaces of happiness and sadness ... is what I believe.