is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?

In article <12eeb854-083a-4032-9ead-ba53efdf9e8dn@googlegroups.com>,
artyw2@yahoo.com <artyw2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and
>broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?

Asimov, "Dreaming Is A Private Thing".
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:12:39 +0000, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

> In article <12eeb854-083a-4032-9ead-ba53efdf9e8dn@googlegroups.com>,
> artyw2@yahoo.com <artyw2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and
>>broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?
>
> Asimov, "Dreaming Is A Private Thing".

Here's a link to the story text:
http://duncan-text.blogspot.com/2008/10/dreaming-is-private-thing.html

To me a more interesting conceit -- with basis that's harder SF --
would be to transmit ordinary culture -- pop or high -- into the
sleeping brain with radio waves. In the history of radio almost
certainly some engineers must have tried to do this, tinkering
with various combinations of frequency and modulation. You wonder
that if they had succeeded, would we know about it?

In article <XB7yL.350999$iU59.167750@fx14.iad>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:12:39 +0000, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>
>> In article <12eeb854-083a-4032-9ead-ba53efdf9e8dn@googlegroups.com>,
>> artyw2@yahoo.com <artyw2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and
>>>broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?
>>
>> Asimov, "Dreaming Is A Private Thing".
>
>Here's a link to the story text:
>http://duncan-text.blogspot.com/2008/10/dreaming-is-private-thing.html
>
>To me a more interesting conceit -- with basis that's harder SF --
>would be to transmit ordinary culture -- pop or high -- into the
>sleeping brain with radio waves. In the history of radio almost
>certainly some engineers must have tried to do this, tinkering
>with various combinations of frequency and modulation. You wonder
>that if they had succeeded, would we know about it?

In the Cale Plamann "Tower of Somnus" books I recently reviewed here,
aliens have set up a galaxy spanning RPG of the titular name and
those with invites (including a few humans) go into the game when they
fall asleep. Among other things the Tower is the galaxy's mechanism
for pop culture and communication as meetings in person take too long.
The mechanism is some sort of magic tech though, not radio.
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 5:12:44 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <12eeb854-083a-4032...@googlegroups.com>,
> art...@yahoo.com <art...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and
> >broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?
> Asimov, "Dreaming Is A Private Thing".

Thanks! I will look at that.

On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 08:57:32 UTC, Charles Packer wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:12:39 +0000, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>
> > In article <12eeb854-083a-4032...@googlegroups.com>,
> > art...@yahoo.com <art...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>is there a SF story in which people's dreams are recorded and
> >>broadcasted? Perhaps a satire on media and celebrity?
> >
> > Asimov, "Dreaming Is A Private Thing".
> Here's a link to the story text:
> http://duncan-text.blogspot.com/2008/10/dreaming-is-private-thing.html
>
> To me a more interesting conceit -- with basis that's harder SF --
> would be to transmit ordinary culture -- pop or high -- into the
> sleeping brain with radio waves. In the history of radio almost
> certainly some engineers must have tried to do this, tinkering
> with various combinations of frequency and modulation. You wonder
> that if they had succeeded, would we know about it?

Something spoken into your ear may materialise
in your dreams. _Brave New World_ may count as
an example of that; children are indoctrinated
that way.

I think I've seen fiction that portrayed commercial
advertisement into dreams, but I don't remember
where - _Futurama_ maybe. Use of goods and
services in fact and fiction media is called
"product placement". Google seems to know a
bit about dream "product placement" - explaining
the topic, I mean, not doing it I hope.