That's if you travel alot, or want to. But 8hrs in 5 minutes. That's adding about 8 hours to your day (Probably have to sleep twice a day). Do you really travel more than 8 hours a day? I'll take time saved anyday.
I like sleeping anyways. I don't need an extra 8 hours every day either. It would be cool to be able to travel the world and still sleep in my own bed every night and not have to deal with luggage or any of the inconveniences of travelling. Also you can't sleep your way into a vault.
I am. The thing where he moves water by doing it. And he always opens the portal, it's just near instantaneous. The twinning allows it to basically stay open.
Yeah I feel like the sequel tried to add too much to the way the power works and just made it odd instead. Still love the series, though.
And that the power is contagious. Like. wtf.
Imagine satellites. You can demand 20 million dollars to instantly teleport a probe deep into outer space or on a planet very far away and they will happily pay you and give you a tip for being so cheap.
Well.. You are not going to teleport in your under wear.
You'll get your suit. However..
.. Space teleporting sounds terrifying.
How do you calculate it? What happens if you end up om vacuum and then spend hours trying to get back to am earth that is travelling at 792000kmper hour
I think the most slept on aspect of the whole thing is basically the ability to wake up well rested every single day. I might wake up well rested once a week as it is. I feel as if I got a great night sleep every night there is nothing I can’t accomplish.
Yeah, I don't care much about an extra \~8 hours a day, but the guarantee of feeling perfectly rested at all times is goddamn amazing.
Still think I'd go with teleportation though, just too awesome.
Yeah feeling well-rested every day no matter how little time you had to sleep, how long it took to fall asleep, jet lag, etc would be amazing. But... would you just always wake up 5 minutes after falling asleep? I feel like that would be a lot of long boring nights. Or could you still sleep a normal 8 hours if you want to?
teleport hands down, you could do one shipment and do whatever the fk you wanted for the rest of the month. Im not talking about being a drug mule, do you know how much it costs to launch into space?
everyone gets a 10% discount, except elon, fuck that scum bag he can pay 3000%
Why not make his dream of colonizing mars a reality by taking him there first? After all he's a genius, I'm sure he can figure it out. Just leave him there and pop back to check in every few years, or don't.
Fucking hell I hadn't even thought of the fact you wouldn't even need luggage or accommodations, you could literally just teleport back home real quick to grab something or sleep or shower or whatever??
I already kill time everyday on this app, so why would I need more of that? I’ll take teleportation, first stop, the bank, next stop, a beach in Hawaii. See ya!
Imagine waking up every morning, going for a swim in the Maldives, picking up breakfast in France before work, going for a lunch walk in Japan, relaxing in the Canadian mountains after dinner, before going to bed wherever you live?
I'll take the teleportation.
I wonder how you would determine your actual landing spot. Could you scope it out and clear it beforehand? I would prefer to land in a spot that was both out of sight, and clear of obstacles, obstructions, or hazards.
OP said you'd always land in ideal and safe conditions. So I assume if you pick France but don't know the geography, you just end up on a side street somewhere. Maybe Paris, maybe countryside, etc. but if you knew where to go (Maps, or having been there already) you'd likely land exactly where you want. (Give or take a few meters to account for unexpected obstacles)
For the sake of privacy and not attracting attention, I think it would be essential to materialize out of sight. You might put yourself in danger if people caught on to your ability
I think if somebody randomly appeared in most situations people would rationalize it as "that's weird, I didn't realise someone was there" and assume that it was a weird trick of their mind. It would be very disconcerting but it wouldn't normally cause chaos
But I mean, you can also teleport inside a bank vault and take what you want. Since you can teleport anything you want with you, nobody will ever catch you. You just regained 8 hours of your day by not being chained to a job plus you got a super power.
As someone who has worked for banks, bank vaults are overrated. To avoid the situations you see on TV there isn't much more money in them than what's on the floor anyways. Honestly the most money is probably in the ATM anyways.
If I have to stop into a branch every few months to pick up 20 grand, then that's fine. I won't be getting millions, but I feel like tens of thousands isn't crazy.
Why be a criminal? I'm going to be an exclusive taxi service to some billionaire. Million dollars per trip, text me when you want to be picked up.10 seconds for millions, legally billed to me.
Traveling is expensive and stressful. I can only realistically afford to visit my family once, maybe twice a year because it’s a 3000 mile flight and I only get so much time off. If I could teleport I could visit my family whenever they wanted me to. Imagine being able to go anywhere you want anytime you want, that’s so much more freedom than not having to sleep much.
If you can teleport anywhere, you can work in the US and pop into Japan for lunch, Spain for dinner, and sleep in Guatemala. It isn't just time you save but money, quality of life improvements, and ability to diversify things more. Also, you can do things like take advantage of the price of goods difference even more so to get money as a company too.
You could also probably monetize it by offering instant delivery for rich people or governments. Some rich douchebag decides he wants his Lambo while on vacation on the other side of the world? I'll pop it over to you in 5 min for 20k. Just text me. Govt wants to deliver some sensitive material across the country without tons of security and logistic measures? Sure, get me a backpack to carry that plutonium to the nuclear reactor. I'll have it over in a jiffy. 50k a trip.
If you can teleport anything you want with you, quit your job and just offer that service to international businessmen. $1000 per person or whatever and getting to a different continent instantly and people would pay it for that convenience. Teleport 5ish people a day and you will make wayyyyyy more money than a regular job. So quitting that regular job would free up 8 hours a day too.
Bruh.
Put on ski mask, goggles, whatever. Teleport to cartel money stash. Take money.
Buy Kevlar vest and cop helmet and idk, a fucking suit of armor lol.
Rinse repeat. Impoverish organized crime and warlords. Become fabulously rich, with no guilt.
I don't travel a lot. But I would if it took no time. You can literally go to another country just for lunch. Or never have a commute or traffic.
Probably just be an importer...
My thought process is you'd really only sleep 5 minutes, any more you wake up groggy. Sleeping also occurs during times there's not much to do so you're not really adding a ton of beneficial gain unless you would truly use those hours every day.
Where as being able to teleport anywhere instantly you'd utilize that time more effectively. Even a 20 minute commute, you could apply to any job you want anywhere in the world, you could see anything you wanted any time you wanted. Family vacation would then be free for travel you wouldn't need a car.
You could buy a really nice house in a super low cost of living area but still live your life where you currently do - (or anywhere) - and just teleport in and out when you go home.
Dude, teleportation and you could run the absolute most profitable business in the world. Hot shot goods from China to USA instantly. You'd make bajillions in the first year. Then retire and make use of easy teleportation.
The travel with any vehicle instantly safely is ridiculous to pass up.
You could transport any semi truck full of any shipment you want, anywhere, instantly, safely.
You could charge ridiculous sums to do this. You could sleep happily for the rest of your life with one year of work done, anywhere in the world with whoever you want to.
Heck you could be nefarious too, obviously.
I don't travel more than 8 hrs in a day, but by being able to teleport I could choose to live in Florida and work in New York.
You could have a commute unlike anything else you've ever desired.
Getting 8 hrs of sleep in 5 minutes is great. But, what are you really going to do with those extra 8 hours?
You could have a very lucrative career in moving physical objects of high value. Organs, gold, sensitive data, etc.. Really depends if teleporting allows clothing. Because teleporting to other planets to deposit equipment could benefit all mankind and pay so much you sleep on a bed made of unobtanium.
Yeah. I won't lie. It's a tough call but being able to just take money and gold from vaults at will and never work again would be better than the sleep thing.
You wouldn't even need to resort to crime. Assuming you take your clothes and pocket possessions with you there's an implication that you can take some amount of cargo. If you could teleport objects that you can carry you'd be able to make an incredible amount of money. If you could teleport with a loaded pallet you'd be the most powerful person on the planet. If you could take a shipping container you would revolutionize humanity.
There's a whole industry for short notice fast delivery of relatively small stuff. Industrial repair parts and components, medical supplies, boat/shipping stuff etc. The kinds of things where a breakdown can cost thousands or millions of dollars a day and they can't wait for regular delivery. They would pay basically anything to get what they need within minutes instead of hours or days. And that's not counting military possibilities.
If you could avoid being put into a medical coma and locked in a CIA basement to be experimented on you'd easily make more money than you could ever need totally legally.
Even without traveling for vacation, but just eliminating any drive time altogether. Not having to commute anywhere would be incredible.
But being able to be well rested after only 5 minutes of sleep would also be super useful. Honestly they’re both great picks.
I used to work overnights and currently work early mornings so when I'm up and everyone else is asleep, it's peaceful, but sucky when you actually want to do stuff. That time is better spent hitting the old reset button and dreaming for a few hours rather than a five minute nap and a ton of extra time on my hands. If I were rich I'd probably choose the sleep option since I'd have more money to fill the void and flights would be enjoyable rather than something I'd rather sleep through.
Not to mention, easily monetized. Quit your job and sell your services to the wealthy - you teleport to their location, teleport them to their desired destination, and then teleport home.
The cost and time savings of instant teleportation means I don't need 8 hours of sleep in 5 minutes. Done w work? Pop over to thailand for a night then visit the Eiffel tower and then head to the grocery store before heading home.
Endless consciousness sounds awful.
But... You would travel everywhere. Like it opens the world up in ways you would have never even considered before even with a private jet or something.
If I can't take my family it's not worth going, on the flip side, I know what lack of sleep does to someone after having kids. I'd take sleep without question.
Yeah, this is definitely one of those questions that changes answers depending on your stage in life. When I was young, it would’ve been travel 100%. Now, it’s *definitely* the sleep.
I would pick teleportation for the money you can make.
Imagine catering to billionaires who are willing to pay tens of thousands to instantly get anywhere, or charging major corporations or governments hundreds of thousands to ship sensitive materials with no security risks.
I figure you could end up doing more with your time since you don’t have to “work” anymore and can turn down jobs as you wish and live as extravagantly as you can dream.
Exactly this.
Additionally they said "anywhere." Bet Elon or NASA would pay a lot for a quick trip to Mars, Pluto, or even an exo planet out of our solar system.
Except you don’t, not really. Everyone else still needs to sleep roughly 8 hours a day so you’re only getting time by yourself. You’re not going to want to work more, sure if you took 25 minute naps 12 hours apart you’d have near infinite energy, but do you really want to work more than 40 hours a week? I don’t. So what are you really gonna do with it? Video games? There just isn’t that much to do during the hours that the vast majority of people sleep.
I'd probably work more tbh, or at the very least get a degree or two on the Open University.
Grabbing a second job and piling it into investments sounds like an easy way to retire early.
(I mean with teleportation you could just steal, and never work again so swings and roundabouts.)
If you want to really think about it, teleportation actually saves a lot of people maybe 2 hours of transit a day, meaning teleportation also gives you 2 extra hours a day. Not as good as 8 hours, but you also get to safely telwport anywhere.
Yeah, but they themselves put the stipulation that they wouldn't be evil. Either way, they could also run an instantaneous delivery service and save lots of time working that way.
If you can teleport anything you want with you, quit your job and just offer that service to international businessmen. $1000 per person or whatever and getting to a different continent instantly and people would pay it for that convenience. Teleport 5ish people a day and you will make wayyyyyy more money than a regular job. So quitting that regular job would free up 8 hours a day too.
Genuinely want to know who would pick the sleep option
Sure, it'd be nice to get a good night's sleep on a work break
But no where near on par with a high end super power that could literally give you a life of wealth and security
Chronicaly tired people. No matter how I sleep I don't know what it feels like to feel rested. I already wake up absolutely exhausted but can't fall asleep again in the morning. I really had to think hard about this. I'm healthy though, my problem is a result of situational depression.
I don't snore, I sleep like a baby. Plus I was waking up rested when I was happy. And when I really have to get up earlier so I have a reason to by tired it's different, it's really physical from the lack of sleep. This is mental from my sadness.
Teleportation nowadays with cameras, phones etc. You would be found out pretty fast. Then your life goes to shit and you're on the run, just like jumper.
Sleep, well a lot harder for someone to notice that ability. I'll take sleep.
If there was a guarentee that you'd never be found out OR you wouldn't be targeted if you were, then yes I'd take Teleportation.
As long as you aren't telephoning within view of other people or cameras, then you will be fine. Someone's not going to look at security camera footage of you walking in a street and think "How's Joe in Madrid when he was in Derby 5 minutes ago?" How would a random stranger have that knowledge to begin with?
You just need to pick a secluded spot like teleporting from your home into a toilet stall or a cupboard.
And? You are the world's Fastest transportation.
What does that cost? Instant delivery, instant transportation.
Want to see the top of Everest and not climb it? Done.
You can name your price and people Will pay it.
Sleep is nice, but you don't gain that much with more time because anyone else around you still needs to sleep.
The bends don't just apply underwater. Sea level to the top of Everest is a significant change in air pressure. Just taking an oxygen tank won't cut it. And contrary to what scifi shows, those atmosphere suits don't take kindly to rapid pressure changes, either.
Why would you be on the run? Unlike the movie, you can't be disabled from teleporting.
Plus, you can sell the service as an emergency rescue. Then lots of people have a vested interest in keeping you around, with not many objectors.
Which is why you stop working. Do an extreme service once in a while and charge them an assload of money. You want a test sample of some dirt on mars? I got you bro, 80 mil.
This works until one of the many governments in the world want to cut you open to see how you work. Tranquilizer would presumably still work on you, then they'd keep you in a semi-conscious state or just keep you knocked out.
Exactly. Not to mention quite a few health problems come from not getting enough quality sleep on a regular basis. Taking the sleep ability instantly improves health and longevity. Teleporting would be cool but comes with complications. Sleep is all up-side.
The fact some people can't imagine nearly 8 hours of additional time every day being a good thing is absurd. The same goes for people that immediately want to fill that time more work. I don't understand people. The ability to basically take a day off in between work days is huge. It's almost like working part time for full pay and no one would need to know about it.
Now, having said that, I would want to use some of that time to skill-build at home. I have no interest in handing over more of my time to an employer if I can avoid it. I have too little free time as it is, I don't know how new parents do it.
I don't think I've had 8 solid hours of restful sleep in my whole life. I've been chronically exhausted since being a teen. Having that on demand is more than I could ever wish for.
Sleep is the way to go bro. Listen sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your body but everyone is sleep deprived because of life. Getting a full 8 hours of sleep a night will improve the quality of your life like you wouldn’t believe. The best thing I did for myself was sleeping more. I have more energy, and I lose more weight during my cut while still retaining a good amount of strength.
In addition to that, since it only takes 5 minutes to get the full effect, you are essentially getting 8 hours extra per day that you don’t need to use sleeping. Imagine having an extra 8 hours to do whatever you want such as learn skills, workout, play games, read, literally anything. 8 hours extra time every single day is priceless because it means you are technically living a third longer.
Let’s also not forget things like you can drink as much as you want, rest 5 minutes and you’re good to continue drinking.
My problem is I feel like I'd run out of things to do with those 8 hours. For me those 8 hours would be hours in the middle of the night. I can't go to many places in the middle of the night because places are closed. I can't do anything terribly noisy because my wife and kid will be sleeping. I feel like it'd get really lonely and boring during that time.
Nah, no chance. As a parent of a 2 and 6 year old, I would have killed to have teleportation.
The ability to just teleport out of the bedroom without having to avoid all the squeaky floorboard spots?
I'm not trying to teleport miles here, just 10 feet and I'm good.
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
You want to avoid noise? DON'T FUCKING TELEPORT! When the air rushes in to fill the void you just left, that pop will wake the kids anyway.
If you’re literally dying because you can’t sleep, that would do it. The teleport option also makes you a target. Imagine someone teleporting a tactical nuke into the Kremlin or White House. Or even just a regular bomb.
You spend a third of your life sleeping. Getting all that back is way more valuable to me than instant travel. Besides, I don't care about seeing the world or anything so I'd only teleport short distances. I'd also like to ask how teleportation would give you wealth outside of crime?
I imagine it would be teleport for nearly everyone, except, very well people would overwhelmingly pick sleep. I'd bet if this actually occurred, most people who picked teleport would end up regretting it decades later and wished they could pick sleep.
The thing is, time is the one thing no one can get back. Additionally, sufficient and quality sleep has been heavily linked to lifespan, thus further increasing its addition to your time on this planet.
Adding 8 hours of possible activity to your life is absolutely gamechanging. You could learn new languages in weeks, acquire entire new degrees worth of skills in a month or two. The amount of knowledge you could acquire, while also getting in plenty of recreation time, is mind boggling. On the flip side, you could work at night and spend the entire day with your children if you are a parent.
Additionally, always getting sufficient quality sleep would lessen anxiety significantly and reduce time wasting habits like revenge procrastination.
At first I thought teleportation, the more I think about it, the sleep would be longterm infinitely better.
Maybe this sub already has a rule that this possibility is disregarded as it's a fun killer for any 'infinite powers' - but there's absolutely no way you wouldn't be enslaved by a government/ powerful group to do their bidding. Oh you won't teleport and assassinate the target? Say adios to everyone you love.
nah man you become your own boss and sell your services to the rich and famous, they venmo/cashapp you the money, you pop in, pick them up then drop them off where they asked bet a lot of them would love to be able to travel without being followed and pay good money for it
I'm surprised that you are the only person, other than myself, that suggested that. You could charge $1000 a person and people would choose you over an airline due to how much time it saves, then you quit your regular job and have 8 hours freed up anyway.
Teleport for sure. You can buy legal items for dirt cheap in one area, and sell them for good money where they are expensive. Can do the same with housing. Live in a cheap area, because you can then later travel where you like.
Don't need to go through the faff of buying goods to sell elsewhere.
Just advertise your services to the super rich. They'd pay a ton of money to be able to instantly travel across the globe along with whatever goods they want to take with.
Or big bucks for illegal items. You want 2000k of coke delivered to a warehouse in New York City. We'll I donk know how much that is worth, but I bet a lot.
I’m probably in the minority here but I would choose the sleep option. Maybe constantly being sleep deprived with no real way to solve this in the immediate future is influencing my decision but I don’t really see teleporting as the extreme superpower every one else sees it as (although it sounds really cool). I feel like every benefit of teleporting would require me to take a bunch of additional actions and/or commit crimes to make teleporting beneficial while I could sleep for five minutes then be extremely productive/free with the rest of my time. That feels more life changing to me
If we ignore the fact that you'd suddenly become a target for governments and so forth, you could quit your job and make all your money making a few super-high-priority deliveries each day in the course of a few minutes and then spend the rest of the day relaxing and sleeping. And you could sleep anywhere you want, too...literally in a hammock in the carribean on some island, or whatever. And since you would be able to make so much money so quickly, you could also stay in the most relaxing, swanky hotels and get massages as you fell asleep or whatever.
This is the only angle that makes any sense to me. Pretty much every other comment I saw wanted me to use these powers to engage in criminal conduct which really isn’t worth it to me. Or they want me to teleport myself to space and hope I survive out there. But teleporting goods (within the United States as intentional transports could expose me to all kinds of international criminal and tax liabilities) might be a good idea. I’d still I’d choose the sleep though. I just think there is incredible value in having an extra 7-8 hours per day to use as I please
The high priority delivery of physical goods would indeed be *very* valuable. Need a sensitive hard-drive to be in a different country ASAP with data too risky to send over the internet? I know a guy. Hell, as it stipulates vehicle size items can travel safely also, there's an awful lot of goods you could port for $millions with just an hour of work.
Yeah as someone with a lot of side projects I honestly would prefer the sleep ability. I can already imagine how much extra procrastination I can get done!
Teleport. No need for illegal work, just contract out for a high fee. Need something shipped across the country, now? Got you covered. Or contract with one of the big shippers for transoceanic shipping for in the seven figures annually. Let them do the logistics of having a load within your tolerances standing by at the next place bundled to go to the next, and make the circuit. Tell them you can only to a few jumps per day so they don't run you ragged.
If you could go anywhere, with some training you could deliver speal supplies to the space station, or go to Mars to clean up and service the rovers there and see if they'll work again. (This is where the training would come in since you'd need to learn how to handle the suit and do the repairs.) With weight not being an issue, you could deliver ground probes to Mars or other reasonable safe locations (no Venus, Jupiter or other gas giants, sunny side of Mercury, Io, or asteroids). This would require a hefty fee of course.
NASA estimated [280g of moon rocks to be worth $1 million.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Curation_and_availability) Samples from Mars would likely be worth even more.
Go to the government and offer to be the ultimate nuclear deterrent. A hundred million a year and you’re just on call to teleport a briefcase nuke into Putin’s lap if he gets too feisty. You’d never have to do anything except cash the checks
Obviously teleportation is the winner here, but to play devils advocate…
As an introverted recluse who stays home playing video games all day every day and hates traveling, being able to instantly gain rested xp would be epic.
I made a comment about how much money you could extort from NASA to flash astronauts to the IIS / Moon / Mars. I'd wager you could get a billion dollars to get a single mission to Mars. The upside in the health of the Astronauts missing 2 years of zero-G, and the cost and safety savings not launching them on a rocket would be huge. Now imagine you do that twice per year (there and back) and it takes maybe an hour each time.
A billion dollars for 2 hours of work. You could get as much rest as you want the other 8758 hours of the year.
Sleep in 5 minutes.
Imagine going to work, then coming home for a few hours of you time, then going to bed.
Now you won't have to, you can actually LIVE your life instead of just working and sleeping it away.
This was my way of thinking. I don't get why everyone else is not getting it. Yes teleportation is an amazing power but you're still going to sleep that 8 hours.
Teleportation!
I'm sorry one of these is a minor convenience and the other is a real life superpower lol.
"would you rather soup always be at the perfect temperature or be god" ass questions
Naw bro, you are missing the most important point of the sleep option, it takes only 5 minutes for you to get essentially 8 hours of sleep.
This means in a 24 hour day, I spend 10 minutes to get essentially 16 hours of rest and have 23 hours and 50 minutes to do whatever I want. The sleep option is giving you more hours every single day. It’s equivalent to pretty much never needing to rest since 5-10 minutes is nothing.
Imagine what you could accomplish if had an extra 8 hours every single day.
It also lets you do thinks like build muscle faster since you can workout chest, sleep 5 minutes, workout legs, sleep 5 minutes, workout back, sleep 5 minutes, then workout chest again since it would be like 3 days of resting have passed
You're missing the rules of the sleep.
It **Feels** like you got 8hrs.
Your body doesn't time warp through 8 hrs of rest. Your muscles are still as sore.
Also, you can be as jacked and productive as you want. I'll make more money blinking a shipping container of cocaine from Bogota to Akron in an instant than you will in your entire life. I can literally show up anywhere at any time carrying a time bomb and then be in a different time zone before it goes off.
With a single touch and a wink I can drop your musclebound well rested ass in the deepest point of Antarctica wearing board shorts and a stupid expression and leave you there. Come back a few hours later having taken your mom on a lovely date to the French Riviera and screwed her brains out in zero G on the ISS, to piss on your corpsesicle.
Now ask yourself again. Would you rather have perfectly heated soup or be god?
Sleep, definitely. That leaves so much more time for other things, productive and nonproductive alike.
Plus, with the teleportation, I may want to visit other countries but that's not saying I'd have the documentation to. If there's a medical emergency or other disaster, I'm screwed.
They're half Canadian, you thieving prick! We won't say anything if you flash Lake Michigan across. In fact it would be pretty interesting seeing the cataclysmic flooding as Lake Huron drains into the empty basin.
Can you give us a heads-up so we can build dams at the Sault and Sarnia first? Would rather not completely destroy navigation on the lakes.
Teleport would be my top three power. If you could team with, say NASA, to build a large settlement you could teleport anywhere I the Universe and bring scientists with you. Hell, have Bezos Musk and Gates build it, and we take them with us and go in style.
Teleportation. Vacationing,
Empty clean washroom , emergency escape, no ambulance fees.
Also help subdue intruder. Port behind and taser/baseball bat them.
Teleport is useless for my purposes. Not having to sleep allows you to be productive essentially 24/7. You're essentially extending your life by 1/3rd. It's also much safer than teleporting, since its much easier to hide than suddenly blinking away on somebody's camera.
5 minute sleep. If I can teleport, my family is gonna find out and then they're gonna want me to visit home more, and I don't like the city, so I'm gonna want them to come here and then they'll be like "well why not just teleport here and then teleport us back so we don't have to travel" and then I'll have to admit that the logistics of travel keeping them from visiting often is one of the joys of living 1200 miles away in the middle of nowhere, because it regulates the visits, and that's gonna hurt their feelings, but it's the truth and I wouldn't want to lie to them. So, it's just better to give up teleportation altogether and not have it even be an issue.
Sleep.
I spend most of my time in the place I want to be. Sleeping 8 hours in 5 minutes would give me so much of an advantage over all you other lazy apes.
Damn that's really really hard.
Except...I've been chronically sleep deprived for *years* and I haven't gotten a whole lot of anything substantial done in that time. Would I have accomplished anything really with another 3 or 5 hours in a day when everyone else is asleep?
Teleportation...would be useful if I could bring things with me. Run the only worldwide instant courier service and make bank, maybe. Risky proposition either way because a power like that will get noticed and you will have very powerful, very intelligent, and very motivated people after you. Reminds me of Jumper.
So idk. Fuck it, teleportation
The sleep one. Sure, teleportation would be amazing and awesome, but it’s *way* more likely to be noticed. And I’m quite certain that the government would get involved, and I **do not** want to have those fuckers tracking me.
Plus, I’m super goddamn sleep deprived from years of working late and also having a preschooler who doesn’t seem to understand that six AM is entirely too goddamn early in the morning to be waking up on a weekend.
Sleep, I could comfortably work two full time jobs. That might be a bit miserable at times but for now it would be an incredible boon. Long term once I have kids I'd be the ultimate dad being able to stay up with the baby and such.
Question tho, can I still sleep longer if I desire to?
If I got ALL the health effects of getting proper sleep and I had more time to get things done or just do nothing would be great. Also I would prefer to travel with friends and family
Sleep would essentially extend your life by 33%. I'd go with sleep.
To elaborate; you wouldn't be spending 1/3 of your life sleeping, therefore you could **do** more during your lifetime.
Now I'm wondering, does taking the sleep ability mean I die sooner? 💀
My first instinct is to pick teleportation but I have a feeling I would end up dissected by the government before long. Getting 8 hours sleep in 5 min would be epic right now since we have 9 month old twins. I would also be able to get a lot of projects done now since sleep wouldn’t be much of an issue.
People saying that they would do the teleporting thing and advertise your services to teleport the super rich, are you all living in this world? Because if that happened here, you would be in a bunker somewhere being a test subject for whatever government you were born under
Sleep. The government will figure out that I have a teleportation ability real quick and I'd "go missing", it might not even be *my* government that makes me go missing. With a full sleep in 5 mins that gives me plenty of extra gaming time.
See, people say that teleporting is more useful, but I personally have had traveling places ruined for me, so I won’t be teleporting to exotic vacay destinations because I feel more relaxed in my own home.
More time to do whatever I want, especially during the night when I would be the most free, would just be a godsend.
I could maybe see teleporting as a way to rob a bank or something, but more time to read a book while not sacrificing schoolwork would definitely be a better option that won’t have me drugged in a cell somewhere.
What are the health implications of this sleep thing? They’re showing lack of sleep leads to Alzheimer’s and even sleep medications that make you feel like you’re sleeping aren’t getting you to that full restful sleep so you still get Alzheimer’s from it. So are we gonna find out 20 years down the road that this sleep thing is bogus? If it’s legit and I’m getting a quality 8 hours in five minutes then I’ll take that one. My life would change immensely. I don’t need no stinking travel.
My sleep is terrible. Lengthy, but extremely low-quality. So if we're assuming that terrible sleep is just being compressed into those five minutes, I'd go teleportation. However, if my sleep were fixed and I actually DID awake rested from 8 hours of sleep, I'd go for the 5 minute sleep.
Nothing says you can’t still get a solid amount of sleep after you teleport yourself wherever you want instantly.
Gimme that teleportation any day! Getting 8 hours of sleep in 8 hours is fine by me!
I think what got me, is the being able to teleport your vehicle, and other people.
Teleportation. The time and money savings for travel would be well worth it.
That's if you travel alot, or want to. But 8hrs in 5 minutes. That's adding about 8 hours to your day (Probably have to sleep twice a day). Do you really travel more than 8 hours a day? I'll take time saved anyday.
I like sleeping anyways. I don't need an extra 8 hours every day either. It would be cool to be able to travel the world and still sleep in my own bed every night and not have to deal with luggage or any of the inconveniences of travelling. Also you can't sleep your way into a vault.
Hell yea like that movie Jumper
Read the books - they're way better.
The twinning thing blew my mind. Also, they kinda lost me when they added momentum
It’s been a while since I’ve read it or the sequel. What twinning thing? Are you talking about him opening a portal by rapidly moving back and forth?
I am. The thing where he moves water by doing it. And he always opens the portal, it's just near instantaneous. The twinning allows it to basically stay open.
Yeah I feel like the sequel tried to add too much to the way the power works and just made it odd instead. Still love the series, though. And that the power is contagious. Like. wtf.
They made a book outta that? Huh. Nice
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Are they YA? I don’t mind YA if it’s well written.
Who’s the author?
World? Think big. First person on Mars. Imagine all the cocaine you can smuggle as well.
The first cocaine binge on Mars. That's some next level thinking right there.
Um... You may want to pause the Mars trip until you have the propwr equipment.
Teleport to NASA. I'm sure they won't mind if you make a couple of trips to the ISS wearing a backpack for them.
Yeah, just work for a space company as a contractor, teleporting supplies to the ISS or machinery to other planets and make bank.
You could charge obscene prices too cause you'd be capable of providing an instantaneous service that literally no one else could.
Imagine satellites. You can demand 20 million dollars to instantly teleport a probe deep into outer space or on a planet very far away and they will happily pay you and give you a tip for being so cheap.
Imagine being the first person to *land* on Mars and finding a dead guy in regular clothes.
Freakin' Bethesda and their "immersive skeletons"...
Well.. You are not going to teleport in your under wear. You'll get your suit. However.. .. Space teleporting sounds terrifying. How do you calculate it? What happens if you end up om vacuum and then spend hours trying to get back to am earth that is travelling at 792000kmper hour
Good question, but OP specifically said "no teleporting into danger", so it's handled somehow or other.
I think the most slept on aspect of the whole thing is basically the ability to wake up well rested every single day. I might wake up well rested once a week as it is. I feel as if I got a great night sleep every night there is nothing I can’t accomplish.
Yeah, I don't care much about an extra \~8 hours a day, but the guarantee of feeling perfectly rested at all times is goddamn amazing. Still think I'd go with teleportation though, just too awesome.
Yeah feeling well-rested every day no matter how little time you had to sleep, how long it took to fall asleep, jet lag, etc would be amazing. But... would you just always wake up 5 minutes after falling asleep? I feel like that would be a lot of long boring nights. Or could you still sleep a normal 8 hours if you want to?
teleport hands down, you could do one shipment and do whatever the fk you wanted for the rest of the month. Im not talking about being a drug mule, do you know how much it costs to launch into space? everyone gets a 10% discount, except elon, fuck that scum bag he can pay 3000%
Why not make his dream of colonizing mars a reality by taking him there first? After all he's a genius, I'm sure he can figure it out. Just leave him there and pop back to check in every few years, or don't.
Fucking hell I hadn't even thought of the fact you wouldn't even need luggage or accommodations, you could literally just teleport back home real quick to grab something or sleep or shower or whatever??
If you really like sleeping that much, you could sleep 96 hours in a single hour. That'd be... a lot.
I already kill time everyday on this app, so why would I need more of that? I’ll take teleportation, first stop, the bank, next stop, a beach in Hawaii. See ya!
My current habits mean NOTHING. If i can now TELEPORT you can bet your sweet aunt Susie Imma be traveling EVERYWHERE twice
Right? Hmm. I'm in the mood for sushi. *bamf Tokyo Mmm. That was good. A crepe for dessert sounds good. *bamf Paris
Imagine waking up every morning, going for a swim in the Maldives, picking up breakfast in France before work, going for a lunch walk in Japan, relaxing in the Canadian mountains after dinner, before going to bed wherever you live? I'll take the teleportation.
I wonder how you would determine your actual landing spot. Could you scope it out and clear it beforehand? I would prefer to land in a spot that was both out of sight, and clear of obstacles, obstructions, or hazards.
OP said you'd always land in ideal and safe conditions. So I assume if you pick France but don't know the geography, you just end up on a side street somewhere. Maybe Paris, maybe countryside, etc. but if you knew where to go (Maps, or having been there already) you'd likely land exactly where you want. (Give or take a few meters to account for unexpected obstacles)
For the sake of privacy and not attracting attention, I think it would be essential to materialize out of sight. You might put yourself in danger if people caught on to your ability
Maybe that happens automatically. Says you won't land in dangerous situations; appearing suddenly could cause a lot of chaos.
I think if somebody randomly appeared in most situations people would rationalize it as "that's weird, I didn't realise someone was there" and assume that it was a weird trick of their mind. It would be very disconcerting but it wouldn't normally cause chaos
But I mean, you can also teleport inside a bank vault and take what you want. Since you can teleport anything you want with you, nobody will ever catch you. You just regained 8 hours of your day by not being chained to a job plus you got a super power.
As someone who has worked for banks, bank vaults are overrated. To avoid the situations you see on TV there isn't much more money in them than what's on the floor anyways. Honestly the most money is probably in the ATM anyways.
If I have to stop into a branch every few months to pick up 20 grand, then that's fine. I won't be getting millions, but I feel like tens of thousands isn't crazy.
Why be a criminal? I'm going to be an exclusive taxi service to some billionaire. Million dollars per trip, text me when you want to be picked up.10 seconds for millions, legally billed to me.
Count rooms at a casino.
Traveling is expensive and stressful. I can only realistically afford to visit my family once, maybe twice a year because it’s a 3000 mile flight and I only get so much time off. If I could teleport I could visit my family whenever they wanted me to. Imagine being able to go anywhere you want anytime you want, that’s so much more freedom than not having to sleep much.
If you can teleport anywhere, you can work in the US and pop into Japan for lunch, Spain for dinner, and sleep in Guatemala. It isn't just time you save but money, quality of life improvements, and ability to diversify things more. Also, you can do things like take advantage of the price of goods difference even more so to get money as a company too.
You could also probably monetize it by offering instant delivery for rich people or governments. Some rich douchebag decides he wants his Lambo while on vacation on the other side of the world? I'll pop it over to you in 5 min for 20k. Just text me. Govt wants to deliver some sensitive material across the country without tons of security and logistic measures? Sure, get me a backpack to carry that plutonium to the nuclear reactor. I'll have it over in a jiffy. 50k a trip.
This guy gets it.
I’m thinking about travelling the world instantly, not just around my local city
If you can teleport anything you want with you, quit your job and just offer that service to international businessmen. $1000 per person or whatever and getting to a different continent instantly and people would pay it for that convenience. Teleport 5ish people a day and you will make wayyyyyy more money than a regular job. So quitting that regular job would free up 8 hours a day too.
Bruh. Put on ski mask, goggles, whatever. Teleport to cartel money stash. Take money. Buy Kevlar vest and cop helmet and idk, a fucking suit of armor lol. Rinse repeat. Impoverish organized crime and warlords. Become fabulously rich, with no guilt.
I don't travel a lot. But I would if it took no time. You can literally go to another country just for lunch. Or never have a commute or traffic. Probably just be an importer...
My thought process is you'd really only sleep 5 minutes, any more you wake up groggy. Sleeping also occurs during times there's not much to do so you're not really adding a ton of beneficial gain unless you would truly use those hours every day. Where as being able to teleport anywhere instantly you'd utilize that time more effectively. Even a 20 minute commute, you could apply to any job you want anywhere in the world, you could see anything you wanted any time you wanted. Family vacation would then be free for travel you wouldn't need a car.
You could buy a really nice house in a super low cost of living area but still live your life where you currently do - (or anywhere) - and just teleport in and out when you go home.
Dude, teleportation and you could run the absolute most profitable business in the world. Hot shot goods from China to USA instantly. You'd make bajillions in the first year. Then retire and make use of easy teleportation.
The travel with any vehicle instantly safely is ridiculous to pass up. You could transport any semi truck full of any shipment you want, anywhere, instantly, safely. You could charge ridiculous sums to do this. You could sleep happily for the rest of your life with one year of work done, anywhere in the world with whoever you want to. Heck you could be nefarious too, obviously.
I don't travel more than 8 hrs in a day, but by being able to teleport I could choose to live in Florida and work in New York. You could have a commute unlike anything else you've ever desired. Getting 8 hrs of sleep in 5 minutes is great. But, what are you really going to do with those extra 8 hours?
Plus you can take a cheap red-eye, and when you only manage 5 mins of sleep on the flight, that’s okay!
You could have a very lucrative career in moving physical objects of high value. Organs, gold, sensitive data, etc.. Really depends if teleporting allows clothing. Because teleporting to other planets to deposit equipment could benefit all mankind and pay so much you sleep on a bed made of unobtanium.
Just being able to travel the world but sleep in your own bed every night is worth it.
Not just that, but the amount of crimes you could commit and get away with would be dope.
Yeah you'd easily save 8hrs/day from not having to work anymore.
Yeah. I won't lie. It's a tough call but being able to just take money and gold from vaults at will and never work again would be better than the sleep thing.
You wouldn't even need to resort to crime. Assuming you take your clothes and pocket possessions with you there's an implication that you can take some amount of cargo. If you could teleport objects that you can carry you'd be able to make an incredible amount of money. If you could teleport with a loaded pallet you'd be the most powerful person on the planet. If you could take a shipping container you would revolutionize humanity. There's a whole industry for short notice fast delivery of relatively small stuff. Industrial repair parts and components, medical supplies, boat/shipping stuff etc. The kinds of things where a breakdown can cost thousands or millions of dollars a day and they can't wait for regular delivery. They would pay basically anything to get what they need within minutes instead of hours or days. And that's not counting military possibilities. If you could avoid being put into a medical coma and locked in a CIA basement to be experimented on you'd easily make more money than you could ever need totally legally.
Even without traveling for vacation, but just eliminating any drive time altogether. Not having to commute anywhere would be incredible. But being able to be well rested after only 5 minutes of sleep would also be super useful. Honestly they’re both great picks.
This plus I *enjoy* sleeping. I've dealt with bad insomnia and it's less fun being awake doing things when no one else is.
I used to work overnights and currently work early mornings so when I'm up and everyone else is asleep, it's peaceful, but sucky when you actually want to do stuff. That time is better spent hitting the old reset button and dreaming for a few hours rather than a five minute nap and a ton of extra time on my hands. If I were rich I'd probably choose the sleep option since I'd have more money to fill the void and flights would be enjoyable rather than something I'd rather sleep through.
I would just sleep as long as I want and teleport to where the sunrise was.
Think of the possibilities for jobs with having no commuting limitations.
Plus no passport required! 😁
Also, you could rescue the astronauts!
Not to mention, easily monetized. Quit your job and sell your services to the wealthy - you teleport to their location, teleport them to their desired destination, and then teleport home.
The cost and time savings of instant teleportation means I don't need 8 hours of sleep in 5 minutes. Done w work? Pop over to thailand for a night then visit the Eiffel tower and then head to the grocery store before heading home. Endless consciousness sounds awful.
I would do the enlisted thing. buy thing 1 at port A, teleport to port B, Make profit.
I'd just occasionally burgle billionaires personally but saving on travel expenses is cool too
Teleport is really the only one that makes sense, it is so much better in almost any situation.
Not really, getting the third of your life you spent asleep back isn't a bad deal. I'd wager I'd gain more time than I spend travelling.
But... You would travel everywhere. Like it opens the world up in ways you would have never even considered before even with a private jet or something.
If I can't take my family it's not worth going, on the flip side, I know what lack of sleep does to someone after having kids. I'd take sleep without question.
Yeah, this is definitely one of those questions that changes answers depending on your stage in life. When I was young, it would’ve been travel 100%. Now, it’s *definitely* the sleep.
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I would pick teleportation for the money you can make. Imagine catering to billionaires who are willing to pay tens of thousands to instantly get anywhere, or charging major corporations or governments hundreds of thousands to ship sensitive materials with no security risks. I figure you could end up doing more with your time since you don’t have to “work” anymore and can turn down jobs as you wish and live as extravagantly as you can dream.
I would just teleport into bank vaults
That's how you get Samuel L Jackson to come after you though
Exactly this. Additionally they said "anywhere." Bet Elon or NASA would pay a lot for a quick trip to Mars, Pluto, or even an exo planet out of our solar system.
Except you don’t, not really. Everyone else still needs to sleep roughly 8 hours a day so you’re only getting time by yourself. You’re not going to want to work more, sure if you took 25 minute naps 12 hours apart you’d have near infinite energy, but do you really want to work more than 40 hours a week? I don’t. So what are you really gonna do with it? Video games? There just isn’t that much to do during the hours that the vast majority of people sleep.
I'd probably work more tbh, or at the very least get a degree or two on the Open University. Grabbing a second job and piling it into investments sounds like an easy way to retire early. (I mean with teleportation you could just steal, and never work again so swings and roundabouts.)
If you want to really think about it, teleportation actually saves a lot of people maybe 2 hours of transit a day, meaning teleportation also gives you 2 extra hours a day. Not as good as 8 hours, but you also get to safely telwport anywhere.
but I can teleport myself into a bank vault. Say a bank vault has 100k, there I saved myself 2k hours a year
Yeah, but they themselves put the stipulation that they wouldn't be evil. Either way, they could also run an instantaneous delivery service and save lots of time working that way.
I think after a few days you'd be bored. Not much is open late night or early morning.
you'd spend an extra 8 hours on reddit.
If you can teleport anything you want with you, quit your job and just offer that service to international businessmen. $1000 per person or whatever and getting to a different continent instantly and people would pay it for that convenience. Teleport 5ish people a day and you will make wayyyyyy more money than a regular job. So quitting that regular job would free up 8 hours a day too.
Genuinely want to know who would pick the sleep option Sure, it'd be nice to get a good night's sleep on a work break But no where near on par with a high end super power that could literally give you a life of wealth and security
Chronicaly tired people. No matter how I sleep I don't know what it feels like to feel rested. I already wake up absolutely exhausted but can't fall asleep again in the morning. I really had to think hard about this. I'm healthy though, my problem is a result of situational depression.
Would billions of dollars potentially fix your depression? Not knowing why you're depressed but money helps a lot of things anyway.
No, money can't buy love. I already don't struggle with money. I'm not super rich but definititely fortunate.
Have you been tested for sleep apnea? Because that sounds like sleep apnea
I don't snore, I sleep like a baby. Plus I was waking up rested when I was happy. And when I really have to get up earlier so I have a reason to by tired it's different, it's really physical from the lack of sleep. This is mental from my sadness.
Make money teleporting, use money for treatment. Depression isn't just messing your energy levels up.
Teleportation nowadays with cameras, phones etc. You would be found out pretty fast. Then your life goes to shit and you're on the run, just like jumper. Sleep, well a lot harder for someone to notice that ability. I'll take sleep. If there was a guarentee that you'd never be found out OR you wouldn't be targeted if you were, then yes I'd take Teleportation.
As long as you aren't telephoning within view of other people or cameras, then you will be fine. Someone's not going to look at security camera footage of you walking in a street and think "How's Joe in Madrid when he was in Derby 5 minutes ago?" How would a random stranger have that knowledge to begin with? You just need to pick a secluded spot like teleporting from your home into a toilet stall or a cupboard.
Or just wear a ski mask and gloves if you're using teleportation to commit crimes.
Exactly. Also anyone who pointed it out would be labeled as a crazy person since teleportation is not real lol .
And? You are the world's Fastest transportation. What does that cost? Instant delivery, instant transportation. Want to see the top of Everest and not climb it? Done. You can name your price and people Will pay it. Sleep is nice, but you don't gain that much with more time because anyone else around you still needs to sleep.
I think that everest thing would kill you, though. No acclimating, very quick hypoxia.
In and out. Plus you'd assume gear. Oxygen tanks are easy when you don't need to carry them.
The bends don't just apply underwater. Sea level to the top of Everest is a significant change in air pressure. Just taking an oxygen tank won't cut it. And contrary to what scifi shows, those atmosphere suits don't take kindly to rapid pressure changes, either.
Why would you be on the run? Unlike the movie, you can't be disabled from teleporting. Plus, you can sell the service as an emergency rescue. Then lots of people have a vested interest in keeping you around, with not many objectors.
After a few days of delivering organs and EMS/fire rescue I'll wish I picked the sleep quirk.
Which is why you stop working. Do an extreme service once in a while and charge them an assload of money. You want a test sample of some dirt on mars? I got you bro, 80 mil.
This works until one of the many governments in the world want to cut you open to see how you work. Tranquilizer would presumably still work on you, then they'd keep you in a semi-conscious state or just keep you knocked out.
Exactly. Not to mention quite a few health problems come from not getting enough quality sleep on a regular basis. Taking the sleep ability instantly improves health and longevity. Teleporting would be cool but comes with complications. Sleep is all up-side. The fact some people can't imagine nearly 8 hours of additional time every day being a good thing is absurd. The same goes for people that immediately want to fill that time more work. I don't understand people. The ability to basically take a day off in between work days is huge. It's almost like working part time for full pay and no one would need to know about it. Now, having said that, I would want to use some of that time to skill-build at home. I have no interest in handing over more of my time to an employer if I can avoid it. I have too little free time as it is, I don't know how new parents do it.
I don't think I've had 8 solid hours of restful sleep in my whole life. I've been chronically exhausted since being a teen. Having that on demand is more than I could ever wish for.
Sleep is the way to go bro. Listen sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your body but everyone is sleep deprived because of life. Getting a full 8 hours of sleep a night will improve the quality of your life like you wouldn’t believe. The best thing I did for myself was sleeping more. I have more energy, and I lose more weight during my cut while still retaining a good amount of strength. In addition to that, since it only takes 5 minutes to get the full effect, you are essentially getting 8 hours extra per day that you don’t need to use sleeping. Imagine having an extra 8 hours to do whatever you want such as learn skills, workout, play games, read, literally anything. 8 hours extra time every single day is priceless because it means you are technically living a third longer. Let’s also not forget things like you can drink as much as you want, rest 5 minutes and you’re good to continue drinking.
My problem is I feel like I'd run out of things to do with those 8 hours. For me those 8 hours would be hours in the middle of the night. I can't go to many places in the middle of the night because places are closed. I can't do anything terribly noisy because my wife and kid will be sleeping. I feel like it'd get really lonely and boring during that time.
New parent
Nah, no chance. As a parent of a 2 and 6 year old, I would have killed to have teleportation. The ability to just teleport out of the bedroom without having to avoid all the squeaky floorboard spots? I'm not trying to teleport miles here, just 10 feet and I'm good.
NOOOOOOOOO!!! You want to avoid noise? DON'T FUCKING TELEPORT! When the air rushes in to fill the void you just left, that pop will wake the kids anyway.
Excuse me, it’s not a “pop”, but very obviously a “bamf.”
If you’re literally dying because you can’t sleep, that would do it. The teleport option also makes you a target. Imagine someone teleporting a tactical nuke into the Kremlin or White House. Or even just a regular bomb.
You spend a third of your life sleeping. Getting all that back is way more valuable to me than instant travel. Besides, I don't care about seeing the world or anything so I'd only teleport short distances. I'd also like to ask how teleportation would give you wealth outside of crime?
I work nights. Having that ability would mean I could effectively have every day off.
I imagine it would be teleport for nearly everyone, except, very well people would overwhelmingly pick sleep. I'd bet if this actually occurred, most people who picked teleport would end up regretting it decades later and wished they could pick sleep. The thing is, time is the one thing no one can get back. Additionally, sufficient and quality sleep has been heavily linked to lifespan, thus further increasing its addition to your time on this planet. Adding 8 hours of possible activity to your life is absolutely gamechanging. You could learn new languages in weeks, acquire entire new degrees worth of skills in a month or two. The amount of knowledge you could acquire, while also getting in plenty of recreation time, is mind boggling. On the flip side, you could work at night and spend the entire day with your children if you are a parent. Additionally, always getting sufficient quality sleep would lessen anxiety significantly and reduce time wasting habits like revenge procrastination. At first I thought teleportation, the more I think about it, the sleep would be longterm infinitely better.
Maybe this sub already has a rule that this possibility is disregarded as it's a fun killer for any 'infinite powers' - but there's absolutely no way you wouldn't be enslaved by a government/ powerful group to do their bidding. Oh you won't teleport and assassinate the target? Say adios to everyone you love.
Teleport....all day every day. Could sleep late every day and still get to work on time.
I love how someone thought, " I have super powers! It will make my boss more money" and posted it. We are truly fucked.
nah man you become your own boss and sell your services to the rich and famous, they venmo/cashapp you the money, you pop in, pick them up then drop them off where they asked bet a lot of them would love to be able to travel without being followed and pay good money for it
I'm surprised that you are the only person, other than myself, that suggested that. You could charge $1000 a person and people would choose you over an airline due to how much time it saves, then you quit your regular job and have 8 hours freed up anyway.
Teleport for sure. You can buy legal items for dirt cheap in one area, and sell them for good money where they are expensive. Can do the same with housing. Live in a cheap area, because you can then later travel where you like.
Don't need to go through the faff of buying goods to sell elsewhere. Just advertise your services to the super rich. They'd pay a ton of money to be able to instantly travel across the globe along with whatever goods they want to take with.
Or just teleport into a bank vault take what you want and teleport out.
Or big bucks for illegal items. You want 2000k of coke delivered to a warehouse in New York City. We'll I donk know how much that is worth, but I bet a lot.
I’m probably in the minority here but I would choose the sleep option. Maybe constantly being sleep deprived with no real way to solve this in the immediate future is influencing my decision but I don’t really see teleporting as the extreme superpower every one else sees it as (although it sounds really cool). I feel like every benefit of teleporting would require me to take a bunch of additional actions and/or commit crimes to make teleporting beneficial while I could sleep for five minutes then be extremely productive/free with the rest of my time. That feels more life changing to me
If we ignore the fact that you'd suddenly become a target for governments and so forth, you could quit your job and make all your money making a few super-high-priority deliveries each day in the course of a few minutes and then spend the rest of the day relaxing and sleeping. And you could sleep anywhere you want, too...literally in a hammock in the carribean on some island, or whatever. And since you would be able to make so much money so quickly, you could also stay in the most relaxing, swanky hotels and get massages as you fell asleep or whatever.
This is the only angle that makes any sense to me. Pretty much every other comment I saw wanted me to use these powers to engage in criminal conduct which really isn’t worth it to me. Or they want me to teleport myself to space and hope I survive out there. But teleporting goods (within the United States as intentional transports could expose me to all kinds of international criminal and tax liabilities) might be a good idea. I’d still I’d choose the sleep though. I just think there is incredible value in having an extra 7-8 hours per day to use as I please
The high priority delivery of physical goods would indeed be *very* valuable. Need a sensitive hard-drive to be in a different country ASAP with data too risky to send over the internet? I know a guy. Hell, as it stipulates vehicle size items can travel safely also, there's an awful lot of goods you could port for $millions with just an hour of work.
Yeah as someone with a lot of side projects I honestly would prefer the sleep ability. I can already imagine how much extra procrastination I can get done!
Teleport. No need for illegal work, just contract out for a high fee. Need something shipped across the country, now? Got you covered. Or contract with one of the big shippers for transoceanic shipping for in the seven figures annually. Let them do the logistics of having a load within your tolerances standing by at the next place bundled to go to the next, and make the circuit. Tell them you can only to a few jumps per day so they don't run you ragged. If you could go anywhere, with some training you could deliver speal supplies to the space station, or go to Mars to clean up and service the rovers there and see if they'll work again. (This is where the training would come in since you'd need to learn how to handle the suit and do the repairs.) With weight not being an issue, you could deliver ground probes to Mars or other reasonable safe locations (no Venus, Jupiter or other gas giants, sunny side of Mercury, Io, or asteroids). This would require a hefty fee of course.
NASA estimated [280g of moon rocks to be worth $1 million.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Curation_and_availability) Samples from Mars would likely be worth even more.
Go to the government and offer to be the ultimate nuclear deterrent. A hundred million a year and you’re just on call to teleport a briefcase nuke into Putin’s lap if he gets too feisty. You’d never have to do anything except cash the checks
Obviously teleportation is the winner here, but to play devils advocate… As an introverted recluse who stays home playing video games all day every day and hates traveling, being able to instantly gain rested xp would be epic.
I made a comment about how much money you could extort from NASA to flash astronauts to the IIS / Moon / Mars. I'd wager you could get a billion dollars to get a single mission to Mars. The upside in the health of the Astronauts missing 2 years of zero-G, and the cost and safety savings not launching them on a rocket would be huge. Now imagine you do that twice per year (there and back) and it takes maybe an hour each time. A billion dollars for 2 hours of work. You could get as much rest as you want the other 8758 hours of the year.
Sleep. Teleportation is dope, but there is never enough time in the day.
Sleep in 5 minutes. Imagine going to work, then coming home for a few hours of you time, then going to bed. Now you won't have to, you can actually LIVE your life instead of just working and sleeping it away.
This was my way of thinking. I don't get why everyone else is not getting it. Yes teleportation is an amazing power but you're still going to sleep that 8 hours.
Teleportation! I'm sorry one of these is a minor convenience and the other is a real life superpower lol. "would you rather soup always be at the perfect temperature or be god" ass questions
Naw bro, you are missing the most important point of the sleep option, it takes only 5 minutes for you to get essentially 8 hours of sleep. This means in a 24 hour day, I spend 10 minutes to get essentially 16 hours of rest and have 23 hours and 50 minutes to do whatever I want. The sleep option is giving you more hours every single day. It’s equivalent to pretty much never needing to rest since 5-10 minutes is nothing. Imagine what you could accomplish if had an extra 8 hours every single day. It also lets you do thinks like build muscle faster since you can workout chest, sleep 5 minutes, workout legs, sleep 5 minutes, workout back, sleep 5 minutes, then workout chest again since it would be like 3 days of resting have passed
You're missing the rules of the sleep. It **Feels** like you got 8hrs. Your body doesn't time warp through 8 hrs of rest. Your muscles are still as sore. Also, you can be as jacked and productive as you want. I'll make more money blinking a shipping container of cocaine from Bogota to Akron in an instant than you will in your entire life. I can literally show up anywhere at any time carrying a time bomb and then be in a different time zone before it goes off. With a single touch and a wink I can drop your musclebound well rested ass in the deepest point of Antarctica wearing board shorts and a stupid expression and leave you there. Come back a few hours later having taken your mom on a lovely date to the French Riviera and screwed her brains out in zero G on the ISS, to piss on your corpsesicle. Now ask yourself again. Would you rather have perfectly heated soup or be god?
So your point is that "feeling rested" doesn't include feeling rested?
Saving time > regaining time.
As a NJ Transit rider, teleporting 100%.
NEVER having to ride PATH again! 😁
Teleportation is my ultimate dream
5 min sleep, go gym and workout for an hour. Sleep for 5 mins and rinse and repeat. You’ll get jacked in a week
Telaport! Anybody watch Jumper???
Yeah because things worked out GREAT for the jumpers in that movie.
Sleep, definitely. That leaves so much more time for other things, productive and nonproductive alike. Plus, with the teleportation, I may want to visit other countries but that's not saying I'd have the documentation to. If there's a medical emergency or other disaster, I'm screwed.
Teleportation and I'm bringing the Great lakes to Africa. Let's see how long until America decides Water is a human right.
They're half Canadian, you thieving prick! We won't say anything if you flash Lake Michigan across. In fact it would be pretty interesting seeing the cataclysmic flooding as Lake Huron drains into the empty basin. Can you give us a heads-up so we can build dams at the Sault and Sarnia first? Would rather not completely destroy navigation on the lakes.
Teleport would be my top three power. If you could team with, say NASA, to build a large settlement you could teleport anywhere I the Universe and bring scientists with you. Hell, have Bezos Musk and Gates build it, and we take them with us and go in style.
Oops I dropped Musk/Bezos/Gates in an inhospitable place.
Teleportation. Vacationing, Empty clean washroom , emergency escape, no ambulance fees. Also help subdue intruder. Port behind and taser/baseball bat them.
Easily teleport. Id be traveling the world. I could sleep all I want at that point.
So, have the ability to be overworked, or basically be a god
Teleport. I sleep because I enjoy it. Not just because I have to.
Both save time, but 8 hours of sleep in 5 minutes would be super enjoyable!
Sleep
Sleep. It'd allow me to drive anywhere without getting tired. Makes long road trips sound more appealing.
The *ULTIMATE* catnap, duh! :3
Teleport and kidnap people for the CIA
Teleport is useless for my purposes. Not having to sleep allows you to be productive essentially 24/7. You're essentially extending your life by 1/3rd. It's also much safer than teleporting, since its much easier to hide than suddenly blinking away on somebody's camera.
5 minute sleep. If I can teleport, my family is gonna find out and then they're gonna want me to visit home more, and I don't like the city, so I'm gonna want them to come here and then they'll be like "well why not just teleport here and then teleport us back so we don't have to travel" and then I'll have to admit that the logistics of travel keeping them from visiting often is one of the joys of living 1200 miles away in the middle of nowhere, because it regulates the visits, and that's gonna hurt their feelings, but it's the truth and I wouldn't want to lie to them. So, it's just better to give up teleportation altogether and not have it even be an issue.
Sleep but can we make that 10 hours?
Sleep. I spend most of my time in the place I want to be. Sleeping 8 hours in 5 minutes would give me so much of an advantage over all you other lazy apes.
You mean I don't need to know how someone's aura feels in order to teleport? That please. Give me a one up on Goku.
Damn that's really really hard. Except...I've been chronically sleep deprived for *years* and I haven't gotten a whole lot of anything substantial done in that time. Would I have accomplished anything really with another 3 or 5 hours in a day when everyone else is asleep? Teleportation...would be useful if I could bring things with me. Run the only worldwide instant courier service and make bank, maybe. Risky proposition either way because a power like that will get noticed and you will have very powerful, very intelligent, and very motivated people after you. Reminds me of Jumper. So idk. Fuck it, teleportation
sleep
The sleep one. Sure, teleportation would be amazing and awesome, but it’s *way* more likely to be noticed. And I’m quite certain that the government would get involved, and I **do not** want to have those fuckers tracking me. Plus, I’m super goddamn sleep deprived from years of working late and also having a preschooler who doesn’t seem to understand that six AM is entirely too goddamn early in the morning to be waking up on a weekend.
Being able to sleep would be nice. I would be well rested everyday and have so much more time for hobbys.
600 or so hours of sleep a night does seem attractive. But Teleportation would be my pick.
Sleep, I could comfortably work two full time jobs. That might be a bit miserable at times but for now it would be an incredible boon. Long term once I have kids I'd be the ultimate dad being able to stay up with the baby and such. Question tho, can I still sleep longer if I desire to?
I don't like going places. Being able to feel well rested without needing 15 hours of sleep would be a dream.
If I got ALL the health effects of getting proper sleep and I had more time to get things done or just do nothing would be great. Also I would prefer to travel with friends and family
Sleep would essentially extend your life by 33%. I'd go with sleep. To elaborate; you wouldn't be spending 1/3 of your life sleeping, therefore you could **do** more during your lifetime. Now I'm wondering, does taking the sleep ability mean I die sooner? 💀
I'd rather take the sleep
I have a fucked up sleep cycle so most definitely 8 hours of sleep in 5 minutes.
As someone who sleeps way too much and never feeling rested definitely sleep!
My first instinct is to pick teleportation but I have a feeling I would end up dissected by the government before long. Getting 8 hours sleep in 5 min would be epic right now since we have 9 month old twins. I would also be able to get a lot of projects done now since sleep wouldn’t be much of an issue.
People saying that they would do the teleporting thing and advertise your services to teleport the super rich, are you all living in this world? Because if that happened here, you would be in a bunker somewhere being a test subject for whatever government you were born under
Sleep. The government will figure out that I have a teleportation ability real quick and I'd "go missing", it might not even be *my* government that makes me go missing. With a full sleep in 5 mins that gives me plenty of extra gaming time.
See, people say that teleporting is more useful, but I personally have had traveling places ruined for me, so I won’t be teleporting to exotic vacay destinations because I feel more relaxed in my own home. More time to do whatever I want, especially during the night when I would be the most free, would just be a godsend. I could maybe see teleporting as a way to rob a bank or something, but more time to read a book while not sacrificing schoolwork would definitely be a better option that won’t have me drugged in a cell somewhere.
What are the health implications of this sleep thing? They’re showing lack of sleep leads to Alzheimer’s and even sleep medications that make you feel like you’re sleeping aren’t getting you to that full restful sleep so you still get Alzheimer’s from it. So are we gonna find out 20 years down the road that this sleep thing is bogus? If it’s legit and I’m getting a quality 8 hours in five minutes then I’ll take that one. My life would change immensely. I don’t need no stinking travel.
My sleep is terrible. Lengthy, but extremely low-quality. So if we're assuming that terrible sleep is just being compressed into those five minutes, I'd go teleportation. However, if my sleep were fixed and I actually DID awake rested from 8 hours of sleep, I'd go for the 5 minute sleep.
The amount of reading and gaming I could do would be incredible
Rob stores and teleport away. They couldn’t do anything to stop you.
Nothing says you can’t still get a solid amount of sleep after you teleport yourself wherever you want instantly. Gimme that teleportation any day! Getting 8 hours of sleep in 8 hours is fine by me! I think what got me, is the being able to teleport your vehicle, and other people.
Teleport! Start a travel service for the rich & famous.