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> Sound familiar from a modern take?

I am not sure what you're referring to but I remember watching an episode of some fictional show on Netflix where this method was used. Where a couple would count their fingers throughout the day so they could dream lucidly together.

If I'd have to guess I think it was "Behind Her Eyes".



The modern take is AI image hallucinations. I didn't realize this at the time, but it's obvious now: The reality checks lucid dreamers suggest match closely with prev-gen AI hallucinations. (fingers, text, numbers etc)


Maybe we are actually LLMs, but we have prompts that prevent us from noticing that. Unless we sleep, probably because our developers decided not to censor that part.


My first thought was totems from Inception.




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