Scientist develop method to visualize your dreams as you sleep

[RichardE]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...at-can-map-dreams.html

A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.

While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery paves the way for the ability to unlock people's dreams and other brain processes.

A spokesman at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories said: "It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity.

"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams." The scientists, lead by chief researcher Yukiyaso Kamitani, focused on the image recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye.

It is while looking at an object that the eye's retina is able to recognise an image, which is subsequently converted into electrical signals sent into the brain's visual cortex.

The research investigated how electrical signals are captured and reconstructed into images, according to the study, which will be published in the US journal Neuron.

As part of the experiment, researchers showed testers the six letters of the word "neuron", before using the technology to measure their brain activity and subsequently reconstruct the letters on a computer screen.

Since Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams over a century ago, the workings of the sleeping human mind have been the source of extensive analysis by scientists keen to unlock its mysteries.

Dreams were the focus of a scientific survey conducted by the Telegraph last year in which it was concluded that dreams were more likely to be shaped by events of the past week than childhood traumas.

Hmm, I see a new pornography market around the corner...

 

[dighn]

amazing. another step towards seamless man/machine interface.

 

[acheron]

Why no, honey, I have no idea why that machine keeps showing pictures of my exgirlfriend.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: dighn
amazing. another step towards seamless man/machine interface.

Kind of looking forward to that myself.

 

[darkxshade]

Bad news for priests all over the world.

 

[sdifox]

err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: sdifox
err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

humans have the ability to speak

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: sdifox
err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

humans have the ability to speak

while dreaming? most of your dream is not retained when you wake up.

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: sdifox
err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

humans have the ability to speak

while dreaming? most of your dream is not retained when you wake up.

and for the ones they do?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: sdifox
err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

humans have the ability to speak

while dreaming? most of your dream is not retained when you wake up.

and for the ones they do?

they are hazy at best... which would lead to people agreeing with the image shown. I am just trying to figure out how they would tune this. I don't think people dream the same way.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: sdifox
err, how do they know the image they are constructing is the image in the dude's brain?

humans have the ability to speak

while dreaming? most of your dream is not retained when you wake up.

and for the ones they do?

they are hazy at best... which would lead to people agreeing with the image shown. I am just trying to figure out how they would tune this. I don't think people dream the same way.

Wait for there paper to come out or go look for it and read it?

I'm sure half the shit we have in the west is magic to people in Africa

 

[CalvinHobbes]

That is awesome. I hope this is perfected someday so I can get a DVR for it and record my wicked dreams.

 

[BW86]

amazing

 

[Kaido]

Wow that article is totally off. Read Engadget for the real story:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/1...oughts-using-thoughts/

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Wow that article is totally off. Read Engadget for the real story:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/1...oughts-using-thoughts/

Ah thanks Kaido! :beer:

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Wow that article is totally off. Read Engadget for the real story:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/1...oughts-using-thoughts/

This makes sense to me, as opposed to what was mentioned in the op. I am not as crazy as people think

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: acheron
Why no, honey, I have no idea why that machine keeps showing pictures of my exgirlfriend.

New grounds for divorce. My husband is cheating on me in his dreams !

Or the future:

You didn't commit the crime, but you dreamed about it !

 

[pontifex]

i was just thinking about this the other day. i would love to be able to record and play back my dreams. i have some pretty damn weird and interesting ones that I would like to go back to.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: Kaido
Wow that article is totally off. Read Engadget for the real story:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/1...oughts-using-thoughts/

Ah thanks Kaido! :beer:

It's neat nonetheless...there's a lot of stuff leveraging very simple methods of body info gathering. Check out the Emotiv headset:

http://www.emotiv.com/

The sensing tech has been around forever, but they've added wireless (Bluetooth iirc) and a sensor for facial expressions, which can have some fun applications via software. Check out this wheelchair demo:

http://emotiv.com/INDS_2/inds_2_1.html

My goal, of course, is to make a TV Remote Control. Now you can just slump in your chair and change channels with your mind

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
Bad news for priests all over the world.

such stupidity