Scientists Learning To Record Your Dreams & Play Them Back

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Have any of you had one of those dreams that scares you awake and then, as soon as you fall back to sleep, it picks right up where you left off? These guys claim they'll be able to do that on demand. :eek:

The data that is collected can then be plugged into an algorithm that is capable of reconstructing your dream so that it can actually be played back for you when you’re awake. Basically, these scientists have invented a dream reading machine; once this technology is perfected you may never have to worry about forgetting your dreams again, because you can simply play them back to yourself when you wake up in the morning. Incredible.
 
Some of my dreams are eeirly weird and terrifying. Would make for an interesting viewing with the family and all...
 
This is awesome. I have many good dreams that I woke up to before it goes to conclusion and really have no recollection of it immediately after waking up. This would let me recall it. Just have to get used to the voyeuristic part of all the scientists knowing what went on in my brain. On the other hand, the nightmares will most likely get me committed immediately.
 
I find some dreams are pedestrian and bland, other -- surreal to the point that if I wake in the middle it stops making sense.

I wonder what percent of dreams involve sex?
 
It's not going to be a GoPro-esque adventure. It's going to be correlated shapes in the form of images.

IE: if you dreamt a house, you may get shown a picture of a house. But it likely won't be the same house. Same for people you know. You may dream of Obama, but it won't show you what you did with Obama.
 
The real deal would be storing all your memories.....like being able to plug in and download.

Imagine being able to store your great grandfather's memories and playing them back.....

That would be something.
 
magoo said:
The real deal would be storing all your memories.....like being able to plug in and download.

Imagine being able to store your great grandfather's memories and playing them back.....

That would be something.
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That would be the ultimate backdoor for the government. :(
 
i'm skeptical. This sounds like a complete load of nonsense. What proof do they have that it's accurate... AT ALL?!?
 
I was in a Nail Retail shop the other day in my dream the shop was outside they sold all kinds of Nails.
If this was possible it would be a big money maker for creativity outlets like Hollywood art Art.
 
So..... if you dream of fucking little kids, would you or the recorder be arrested for child pornography?
 
viscountalpha said:
i'm skeptical. This sounds like a complete load of nonsense. What proof do they have that it's accurate... AT ALL?!?
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Think how it works. They show you a picture of a house, record the neural activity of what your brain does when seeing that image. Then, they cross-reference that snapshot with the night recording of brain activity and make the assumption that X pattern means you were visualizing a house in a dream.
 
I can see this going wrong, here you are thinking of some weird ass shit that only your subconscious can think up, then they record it, and press play while your awake sending that dream into your head again while you're actually conscious and you go insane!
 
The dream movie stuff is pop-science clickbait. If you ask a bunch of people to imagine something their brains are all going to light up differently based on where exactly the relevant information is stored in each particular brain.

In this case they repeatedly recorded brain activity for 200 people, identified patterns for each individual, and then created a system that associates those patterns with generic pictures from the internet to create a 'movie' of dream contents. It may lead to a better understanding of dreaming in general, but without being able to directly sample neuron activity you aren't going to get anything like an actual recording of your dreams.
 
This is just some clickbait article. Measuring brainwave activity while you sleep is a world apart from being able too actually translate that into a perceivable experience. We're not any closer to this than we were 50 years ago.
 
Considering how radically different one brain can be from the next, it's complete nonsense to even make this claim. The kind of rapid customisation required to make brain interpretation or wet-ware is a long way away. Forget the silicon technology, we don't have anything that even remotely resembles a way to rapidly generate a pin-point accurate map of a human brain.
 
The science involved is mainly Cognitive Science.

Apparently, some spy agencies are able to hook you up to some sort of EEG or fMRI type device and flash pictures in front of your eyes on a projector. If you've seen the image before, a specific section of your brain associated with memory will have activity... I don't remember the exact details.

I usually have dreams that would make great sci-fi novellas. I'm lucky enough to remember the details of most of the good ones, should get on that... :D
 
i also call BS. we've barely reached an age where we blind people can make out blobs of black and white. how can we reimage a whole dream? if its measuring brain waves plus other biological factors such as blood pressure, heart rate, etc.. its still nonspecific.
 
So once they perfect this then I'll be able to use this line:

Ju jitsu? I'm gonna learn Ju jitsu?
 
So if dreams are supposed to be the brain sorting and getting rid of the weird stuff that you come across in normal daily life we are going to get in trouble with our loved ones when we dream about falling or what ever else people will draw the wrong conclusions about yikes.

People need to learn what is in your head is your own problem unless your the lover. Then you probably have a good guess anyway.
 
Time2Kill said:
I see none of you guys read (or understood) the article....
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From the article:
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Participants in the study were asked to hook themselves up to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine, then to fall asleep inside an fMRI machine. Scientists then used the EEG readings to determine when the participants began to enter the dreaming phase of sleep. They were then abruptly woken up and asked to recall what they were dreaming about; this process was repeated about 200 times for each participant.

Scientists then condensed this data and found that certain common types of objects from the dreams of the participants could be connected with brain patterns that were recorded by the fMRI scans
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They are guessing at what peoples dreams look like. Some people dream in color and some in black and white, are those scans going to show that? How accurate is the data going to be once you feed interpretative and subjective information into it?

So, NO. Your the one who doesn't have a clue about what your talking about.

In the world of science, this doesn't fly at all. If you can't prove it exists without a shadow of a doubt then it's not usable at all.
 
Time2Kill said:
I see none of you guys read (or understood) the article....
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I understood it as scientists looking for patterns to guess roughly what you were dreaming about. The clickbait title says "play them back" From the article:

"you can simply play them back to yourself when you wake up in the morning. Incredible."

Please enlighten me what I'm misunderstanding. It's pure clickbait. It would be like if I saw an article claiming Nvidia's next cards were nuclear powered, then I read the article and it says the cards are used for GPU processing in nuclear data simulation. Same bait and switch bullshit.
 
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