That's one way, if you really want to give it a go.
[ A JOKE......
Also he realizes he's toeing the line of completely outing himself as Not A Suit, but he suspects 76 knows that already. ]
There's technology where I'm from. People can use it to get inside your head through dreams– high end corporations found ways to protect against such an event and spent a good amount of money training whomever they thought would need it.
Thought I'd mention it since I have the technology available back on base. And I know how to use it. Someone had to teach pampered CEOs how not to have their shit stolen.
And fun. It also pays well. But mostly he's there for the fun. ]
Long winded explanation short: lucid dreaming, make the target comfortable, whisk their secrets away by getting them to give it to you. They won't remember the interaction when they wake up, if it's done right.
Small test runs are being done for medical purposes—assisting with PTSD, therapy, even waking patients from comas. These are more new developments though, since it's gotten more stable over time.
There's defense mechanisms you can set up. Creating a mental guard– something like security personnel for your head. Teaching someone to know what to look for.
Once they identify it as a lucid dream, they gain more power over the situation and can collapse the dream.
[ Like Saito had. Though the appearance of Mal's shade had helped with the destruction of that particular dream more than Saito. ]
[ This isn't Cobb, this isn't Cobb, this isn't Cobb ]
That's complicated.
In short, if the dream is built right: they see what we want them to see.
Every person has a defense mechanism of sorts, though. They're called projections– basically "filler" crowds of people that can sometimes take the shape of people the dreamer knows or has known.
It was a side effect they didn't know about at first. Military used it to build warscape training grounds– projections are naturally suspicious. Pushing them into a fight isn't too hard.
Once it went more public, it goes one of two ways. Either avoiding notice to garner information or asking for the attention. Some people want to relive their time with people they've lost. Or people they can no longer speak to.
[ Like Mal. Who still shows up in his own builds. She's all sun and smiles, not the dark shade Cobb carried with him. ]
[All of this sounds like kind of a mess—the kind of tech that shouldn’t exist at all, to the point where he can’t decide whether or not it’s worse that it seems to have become privatized. He finds it hard to believe that the military developed something like this and the whole privacy part wasn’t something that occurred to them. An unintended side-effect? It sounds like they knew exactly what they were doing.
But none of that is here or there or relevant to what Arthur does with it. It’s equal parts horrifying and intriguing.]
I can see where there would be a lot of money to be made.
The payout can be enticing, certainly. I find the possibilities more interesting, though. Even if that makes me sound like some pretentious hipster intellectual.
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As for anything else, I'd rather not think about it, thanks.
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[Impractical.]
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[ A JOKE......
Also he realizes he's toeing the line of completely outing himself as Not A Suit, but he suspects 76 knows that already. ]
There's technology where I'm from. People can use it to get inside your head through dreams– high end corporations found ways to protect against such an event and spent a good amount of money training whomever they thought would need it.
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Where are you going with this?
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[This is. Kind of horrifying?]
How does it work?
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And fun. It also pays well. But mostly he's there for the fun. ]
Long winded explanation short: lucid dreaming, make the target comfortable, whisk their secrets away by getting them to give it to you. They won't remember the interaction when they wake up, if it's done right.
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insidious.
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So yeah.
[ oops ]
Small test runs are being done for medical purposes—assisting with PTSD, therapy, even waking patients from comas. These are more new developments though, since it's gotten more stable over time.
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I was trained for the more "insidious" things. Not too interested in a career change.
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Once they identify it as a lucid dream, they gain more power over the situation and can collapse the dream.
[ Like Saito had. Though the appearance of Mal's shade had helped with the destruction of that particular dream more than Saito. ]
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In any case, offer is open to learn more once we get back to base, if you're interested.
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[Or COST out of their heads, maybe.]
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That's complicated.
In short, if the dream is built right: they see what we want them to see.
Every person has a defense mechanism of sorts, though. They're called projections– basically "filler" crowds of people that can sometimes take the shape of people the dreamer knows or has known.
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[So of course the military developed it.]
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Once it went more public, it goes one of two ways. Either avoiding notice to garner information or asking for the attention. Some people want to relive their time with people they've lost. Or people they can no longer speak to.
[ Like Mal. Who still shows up in his own builds. She's all sun and smiles, not the dark shade Cobb carried with him. ]
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But none of that is here or there or relevant to what Arthur does with it. It’s equal parts horrifying and intriguing.]
I can see where there would be a lot of money to be made.
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In any case, if you're ever interested...
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