Your dreams infiltrated

What if I told you that every time you're asleep in your bed at night your private thoughts might be compromised? What if when you're dreaming about all your hopes, fears and ideas a security breach could lead to the ultimate psychological heist, that's right your dreams are about to be hacked. What powers do these dream hackers possess and how would it change our society?

This is what if and here's what would happen if your dreams could be hacked: dreams are extremely valuable, they generate ideas, inspire us, help us solve problems and much more but despite their importance, scientists still aren't sure why we dream. We have several theories like dreams are a way to process emotions, express our desires, and gain real-life practice when confronted with potential dangers. Other theories suggest that dreaming has no real purpose at all either way there's still something going on inside your head. The human population spends about six years of their life dreaming in REM sleep and it's more if you include dreams in the other sleep stages that's a lot of information that's just there for the taking. What if a shadowy group and the ability to extract those private little thoughts from that head of yours what kind of information could they extract, governments could spy on their citizens making sure no one is planning an uprising industry, saboteurs could spy on competitors technology by entering their

workers' dreams, the police could try to identify murderers or solve other crimes by entering suspects' dreams and what about those questionable dreams you don't want to tell anybody about.

Every awkward dream could be exposed and used against you potentially even to prosecute you, think you could dream up a lawyer and that's just if these dream hackers are taking information? what if they left some behind, these planted info could be anything from companies filling your dreams with advertisements to other people manipulating your emotions to how you perceive the world. You could wake up one day and hate all your loved ones and

not even remember why or on the flip side you could wake up with a yearning desire for the mailman, nothing has been that cute, so with those dream hackers out there, how would you sleep at night.

Well if people knew their dreams could be breached, they would try to stop dreaming altogether. People might try to take dream suppressing drugs to lock down their slumbering state and people who couldn't afford the drugs would be chugging coffee and fighting off sleep

as if Freddy Krueger was about to show up so could you prepare for the upcoming dream invasion. Could you hack into your own dreams and set up a mental firewall wall there? Is something called dream incubation which happens when you plant a seed for a specific dream to occur. This method is often used when people want to solve a problem while they sleep. You should start thinking about all the locked doors and security systems you can steal your mind.

When asleep we dream about every 90 minutes so you need to give yourself time to experience it about 7 to 8 hours of sleep is needed and most importantly encourage yourself to remember the security you added when you wake up because if you don't we'll have to start again but this is just science fiction right? Well since the year 2017 MIT has been running a dream lab. Here, a group of researchers is developing a technology capable of mining the subconscious. Their current pride and joy is a device called ‘Dormio’ which tracks a wearer's muscle tone, heart rate and skin conductance feeding audio cues at certain stages of sleep that then becomes part of the wearer's dreams. Since researchers are already able to influence the dream and extract some information, dream hacks could really happen. All we are waiting for is a smaller devices that can be applied undetected and without a person's knowledge or consent, it might be a good idea to start taking control of your dreams right now that way when the dream hackers come for

you, you will be ready but what if we were able to remove the problem entirely and took away the cache of valuable dreams. What if we no longer needed sleep? well that's a story for another time.