Watching Your Record Dreams

[Keza52]

I read in a magazine recently that scientists reckon that soon we could use computers to "see" what we have dreamed about and possibly even record dreams to watch the next day. Is that true, and what do you think about that?

Thanks, Kieran.

[factor-fiction]

I very much doubt it

[sandyRoe]

I don't think I'd want to experience a daydream nightmare.

[d9f1c7]

Is there some sort of technology about that could enable this? Sounds a bit far fetched to me.

[LazyGun]

I think that is a long way off Kieran. There is some work being done with fMRI machines (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners, where they have been getting volunteers to think about certain items whilst being scanned using an fMRI - shows blood flow and active areas of the brain. From this, they can build up a library of certain items and the fMRI pattern.

Other researchers have focused the scanning on the visual cortex of volunteers, measuring blood flow and the patterns created whilst the volunteers are watching movie trailers.

[RATTER15]

Utter bunkum IMO!

[bigbadmarty]

Derren Brown had such a machine , consiting of a switch , a light bulb some wiring and some sticky pads which he connected to his forehead .
By reciting some pschco-babble and using his cold-reading skills he convinced the owner of a successful new-age business that the product was genuine...