I have my doubts this is a technology even close to being achieved or that anyone would be interested in funding it.
Miles O’Brien: “Fuck you.”
I want that so much, get 10 university degrees, learn to play the guitar, become a master craftsman, all in a day.
A few trillion years trapped punching your way out of a time loop…
Sorry, best I can do is knitting and crochet. But think of all the sweaters and socks you’ll have.
Well at least all the restaurants will be Taco Bell
You mean Pizza Hut of course
Wait this could maybe be good if used very responsibly. When I had my last shroom trip, i was gone so long that I had to meet every single one of my friends again, but i had so much time to learn and think in that time span (it was also horrible). Dangerous concept for sure though lol
I’m also kinda scrambled now though
It’s ok to be a little scrambled. You may have gained insight into a better way to exist that conflicts with the way your society is organized.
I once had a dream lasting months, ultra vivid.m, ending in a futuristic battle scene in which everyone around me was massacred and then I was killed last. Woke up, and three minutes had passed since I last looked at my phone.
Like for real months, like 30 days, 24 hours? Or the dream skipped through that timespan?
You’ve seen Total Recall right? I don’t know.
I remember a long period of wandering the countryside. Long conversations with farmers over dinner, them letting me bed down in their barns or guest rooms. Doing a little chores for each one. I remember the feeling of excitement slowly growing as I got closer to the man I was tracking.
But maybe it was just memories that appeared in my head.
The battle scene alone was well over three minutes, and it was just the very end of the dream.
But you never know.
I do remember I woke up in a literal cold sweat. As in my skin was cold to the touch, and I was covered in sweat, and my heart was racing, and I was full of adrenaline and terrified. I’ve never woken up like that, and never had a cold sweat in my life outside of that.
This actually happens often for me now. I find that afterward it’s almost like coming down from a real psychedelic trip, for the entire day. And i have the clarity to recall memories from my childhood that i once thought lost, lasting the whole day
In my case it happened during the last weeks of my mother’s life. I was staying with her and taking care of her.
I was really bitter about it. I was in denial that it was the end, and I just saw it as I didn’t get to be with my friends and my new life in the city I’d moved to just out of college.
So I did a meditation, where I was doing something with my heart chakra, trying to remind myself to be grateful for my mother and this chance to see her, and trying to remind myself she was dying.
Uber driver, gotta go, upvote and ask me for more if you want rest of story.
But think of all the shareholder value that could be created!
Stephen King’s The Jaunt
You are not getting rehabilitated if you have to experience The Jaunt.
Longer than you think.
There’s a whole horrifying episode of Deep Space Nine about something like this.
Miles O’Brien must suffer
There’s also a book by iain M banks called Surface Detail, part of the culture series. It was an entertaining albeit troubling read.
Probably the best “O’Brien Must Suffer” episode.
A similar premise was used in an episode of the 90’s revival of The Outer Limits. Had David Hyde Pierce in it.
Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.
Just make them do their own taxes; same difference.
As others have said, the rehabilitation aspect is dubious. It depends on what the person “experiences” for that length of time. If there’s therapy in time-dilation-space then sure go right ahead and sign me up as well. I’ll just Goku-it up in my chamber of time and space and work some shit out in time for my morning shit. But you and I both know it ain’t going to work that way. Prisoners will just be trapped in an empty void with only their own thoughts to keep them company, most likely rendering them insane. An infinite solitary confinement is just plain torture.
Edit: so I googled the article and its laughable how easily the author slides right in to dystopian fanfic. “This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals’ lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time.” Obviously.
One day Steve said: You know what? Keeping a prisoner a life for a thousand years is fucking expensive. What if we didn’t have to?
And from that conversation our company was born. Little did we know that death sentence is still a thing or that humans don’t even live that long. But boy did we scam some investors.
There it is. One of the most disturbing episodes in all Star Trek, and it’s exactly this. That and Inner Light, genuinely dark shit.
O’Brien exists to suffer haha.
Isn’t this just a Black Mirror episode?
Literally.
Lmao yeah I came here to say this…
But alas, I was too slow :(
I’d rather just kill em than trap them in a thousand years of darkness
