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mind = blown; experiment paves way for dream/memory recording!

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IceBergSLiM said:
Those guys are really really smart.
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the irony is that the basic concept seems simple enough. if i understand correctly, they built a database mapping visual stimuli to brain activity. then they measured brain activity of the second set of video clips and tried to approximate the visual stimuli. genius!
 
such a device has already been created

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Very impressive stuff.

Now they just need to up the resolution 10x. 😛
 
I'm not sure I'd want to watch a video of my dreams. From what little I remember when I wake up they can be pretty messed up.

I'd be more interested in watching a video of what my dogs dream about :biggrin:
 
I don't know if our dreams will be as interesting as we think. I would imagine there would be a lot of vague impressions with only a couple of objects with any level of detail to them. Think about a dream where you knew were in a city but the city wasn't important or visualized. How did you know you were in a city? Most likely it was just an impression with no actual substance. (Of course I could be wrong and it could be the most amazing thing in the world and we just never remember it...)

bignateyk said:
I'm not sure I'd want to watch a video of my dreams. From what little I remember when I wake up they can be pretty messed up.
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Heh - if we were in a group watching my dreams I can just imagine the looks people would give me when we were done. I am sure it would be something along the lines of:
😵😡:colbert::|😱D😀😱_O😵:\
 
I would love to watch my dreams (at least the good ones). This definitely now sounds plausible, i didn't think they'd come up with something like this for a lot longer! I'm excited.
 
I'll be honest, for some reason that video really creeped me out.

It gave me the "some things are best left alone" feeling.
 
the experiment several years ago where they actually tapped in to what a cat was seeing was cooler.

Here they're showing clips from random youtube videos

There they were showing what the cat was ACTUALLY SEEING albeit at a much lower resolution.
 
vshah said:
the experiment several years ago where they actually tapped in to what a cat was seeing was cooler.

Here they're showing clips from random youtube videos

There they were showing what the cat was ACTUALLY SEEING albeit at a much lower resolution.
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Read the actual paper - they used youtube videos to calibrate the model that translates the fmri -> stimulus mapping (thought the "cheats" a little by using a library of 1s slices of the possibly-viewed clips and a bayesian to help it hill climb with whatever the "motion energy" metric is)
 
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