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Think about dreams. They may be interesting stories, and so have entertainment value. They may contain creative ideas to help solve world problems, and so have social value. But this entertainment and social value is unrealized. The problem is that most dreams are not remembered, those that are remembered are easily forgotten, and those that are not forgotten are difficult to share. How can we realize the untapped entertainment and social value of dreams? In short, our idea is to enable individuals to record their dreams whilst they are sleeping, to replay their dreams on a computer, and to share their dreams via www.dreamview.com if they wish to do so. This would create a whole new form of entertainment as individuals could experience the dreams of others, and it would unleash a plethora of new ideas that could help to address many of the world’s most pressing challenges. In this way, it would create fun and meaning by 2030. You may be thinking “this idea is simply not feasible”. We would argue, based on current trends in technological development, that this idea can become reality before 2030. For starters, we have come a very long way in the past twenty years. The internet was invented less than twenty years ago! Also, technological research has already resulted in some major breakthroughs in the area of reading brain patterns. For example, it is now possible for one person to experience the same sensations another person is experiencing. Moreover, it is anticipated that by 2020 it will be possible for individuals to see on a computer what other individuals are seeing in real-life. A logical extension of being able to capture what people are seeing when they are awake is to be able to capture what they are ‘seeing’ when they are asleep (that is, to be able to capture what people are dreaming). This is a completely original idea that could very easily become reality in the next few decades. DreamView would create meaning by making useful the one-thirds of our lives that we spend sleeping. It would facilitate the capturing and sharing of millions of new ideas, and would allow better research to be undertaken in the field of psychology. DreamView would also create an entirely new form of fun. People would be entertained by their own dreams and by the dreams of billions of others. This is one idea that could actually change the world.
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13 comments
interesting:)
i hardly dream so i'd atleast get to see what the rest of the world sees!
do check this out, would love yr views:)
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1097
22nd June, 2011 @ 6:26 PM CEST
hey well done... :)
Every idea in this competition is meant for a noble cause..
And everyone is running blindly to get more accolades for their own idea.. We all are trying to gather and convince friends to vote for us..
But as a part of this competition, we ourselves should motivate eachother.. for a while we should keep the competition aside.. and we should look into all our felllow competitor's ideas.. and should encourage the idea they came up with for the noble cause..
Lets keep aside the competitive feelings aside.. and lets vote for all the ideas we consider worthy in our perspective...
lets encourage each other ideas.. I will vote for you as i liked your idea.. and for all other ideas as well which i liked..
Join me in this drive of voting and encouraging your those fellow competitors.. WHOSE IDEAS YOU FEEL ARE WORTHY...
If you like mine, you are cordially invited to vote for our idea too....
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1026//1273
And If you don't like, we would love to have your opinion on how can we improve on our idea :)
Enjoy
14th July, 2011 @ 8:05 PM CEST
sounds very interesting!!!) i would say even fabulously!)
but, what king of technology are you planning to apply? I mean, will it be something that I will need to wear on my head during my sleep?
20th July, 2011 @ 9:34 AM CEST
I like it.
Check out our idea: http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/993
Congratularion good idea!./*
21st July, 2011 @ 9:53 PM CEST
Denis Kotov | Action team
That's very interesting, dreams are crazy and twisted and some of them are worth sharing just for the good laugh. It would be cool to see them on the computer, I even think that some of them can compete with modern blockbaster movies from hollywood.
Nice project!
22nd July, 2011 @ 10:08 AM CEST
Jovana Djurkovic | Action team | CF Chapters
haha i just remembered one dream that my friend dreamed few times... and every time when he tried to talk me about it, after few sentences he just stop talk... and say: ohh don't know how to express this, haha, so he try to explain me with movements and it is so funny, every time it make me laugh till tears.
with your project, maybe it can be more funny :-)
22nd July, 2011 @ 8:51 PM CEST
Jovana Djurkovic | Action team | CF Chapters
Congratulations for passing to the next round :-)
2nd August, 2011 @ 1:17 PM CEST
Muhammad Jehangir Khan | Action team | CF Chapters
you guys are awesoum... yes you rock everything and you are finalist.... GOD bless you...
6th September, 2011 @ 2:17 PM CEST
Marija Manevska
looking forward to trying your idea :)
20th June, 2011 @ 11:54 AM CEST