Would you like to experience your fondest memories in virtual reality?

[ralphc1]

Reverie is a new show that premiered on NBC Wednesday night. It is a pretty good premise. A computer program is created that allows people to go back in their minds to re-live some of their favorite memories. While testing it, they find that people became so involved in their memories that they wouldn't leave them. They don't sleep because their brain is occupied. Sara Shahi, a hostage negotiator, is recruited to be inserted into the program to try to talk people into returning to reality before they die. She has her own reasons to want to escape reality which complicates the situation.

 

[ralphc1]

After seeing the show, that would be a good way to check out. Experience your fondest memories as you die painlessly.

 

[Twerknasty]

Some sort of pr0n VR would produce many great memories tbh

 

[Fedorgasm]

I would seriously just re-live certain sexual experiences over and over til I died.

The firsts would be the most exciting.

First time I had sex
First time a girl swallowed
First time in a public place
First time getting caught
First time fisting a chick

Actually scratch that last one. It was fun once but no desire to do that again.

 

[Not A Theist]

I feel like it seems like something that would be wonderful but would actually strip a lot of the wonder out of the memories. Kind of like when they remake your favourite show or video game, or adapt a lot of books to movies, and they're just wanting in some way... What we expect when we have something like this happen is to relive the experience of the thing, with all of those nuances and textures of the phenomenal moment which made it wonderful. What we get is the shell of the experience without that phenomenal character again, and it just seems hollow.

I'm going to go with no, however tempting it would be.

 

[ralphc1]

I feel like it seems like something that would be wonderful but would actually strip a lot of the wonder out of the memories. Kind of like when they remake your favourite show or video game, or adapt a lot of books to movies, and they're just wanting in some way... What we expect when we have something like this happen is to relive the experience of the thing, with all of those nuances and textures of the phenomenal moment which made it wonderful. What we get is the shell of the experience without that phenomenal character again, and it just seems hollow.

I'm going to go with no, however tempting it would be.

Th premise of the show is that the program can create all of those nuances. It's just like you're there with all of the people you were there with. It could even be better because our memories are usually idealized versions of that reality.

 

[loyalyolayal]

Some sort of pr0n VR would produce many great memories tbh

Soon...

 

[Twerknasty]

Soon...

 

[Fedorgasm]

Has anyone tried VR porn? I have a Google cardboard Viewer lying around somewhere, was wondering if it's worth finding.

 

[faustian]

Seems like it would cheapen the actual moment

 

[j123]

I would seriously just re-live certain sexual experiences over and over til I died.

The firsts would be the most exciting.

First time I had sex
First time a girl swallowed
First time in a public place
First time getting caught
First time fisting a chick

Actually scratch that last one. It was fun once but no desire to do that again.

First time I posted on Sherdog

Spoiler

Was so innocent.... Now I'm a pos

 

[Deleted member 220895]

I'd love for my most favorite experiences to be completely fake. I don't need actual reality to make me happy. The world could be burning, but just as long as I got me my VR lady, I'll burn with it.

 

[irish_thug]

I prefer my twisted version of those memories. I don't need "accurate" versions getting in the way of that.

 

[Not A Theist]

Th premise of the show is that the program can create all of those nuances. It's just like you're there with all of the people you were there with. It could even be better because our memories are usually idealized versions of that reality.

A lot of that nuance is us, ourselves, though. When I first saw my favourite movie, decades ago now, it was a younger, more idealistic person watching and the memory is the memory of a different person watching it. You add some twenty five years of experience, cynicism, and growth onto that person and suddenly, while the movie is the same, the person themselves is the same - that being the phenomenal character of experience. My memories are wonderful because they capture a moment in time where I was different and reliving the experience, however much of the moment it captures or even improves, the person experiencing it is long gone.

There's a lovely A.E. Housman poem which, I think captures the point I'm making. I'll post it here.


XXXV
When first my way to fair I took
Few pence in purse had I,
And long I used to stand and look
At things I could not buy.

Now times are altered: if I care
To buy a thing, I can;
The pence are here and here's the fair,
But where's the lost young man?

--- To think that two and two are four
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long 'tis like to be.



It's a long way of saying "you can never go home again." I think however perfectly we recapture a moment, the part of the moment that we ourselves represent will never come back - and the phenomenal character of the moment is lost.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I'd love for my most favorite experiences to be completely fake. I don't need actual reality to make me happy. The world could be burning, but just as long as I got me my VR lady, I'll burn with it.

What would be interesting would be if I could send you a copy of my memories.

That way we could all lose our virginity a million different ways and just re-live our favorite

 

[Johnson]

Sounds like a Jon Ronson book question. What if you could view your dreams on tv but the catch is the only way to view them was while watching em with your family and friends.

 

[90 50]

I had an ex years back that gave the most legandary head.

She was fucking nuts though , but I would just relieve those bi’s at night and not have to worry about the bullshit that comes with women.

 

[Twerknasty]

I would seriously just re-live certain sexual experiences over and over til I died.

The firsts would be the most exciting.

First time I had sex
First time a girl swallowed
First time in a public place
First time getting caught
First time fisting a chick

Actually scratch that last one. It was fun once but no desire to do that again.

You fist her fart cannon?

 

[Deleted member 220895]

What would be interesting would be if I could send you a copy of my memories.

That way we could all lose our virginity a million different ways and just re-live our favorite

I'd love to experience that embarrassment over, and over.

 

[lostdog000]

yes