New Technology to Show Dreams on Screen

New Technology to Show Dreams on Screen

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A Japanese research team has invented a technology that if completed could display people's thoughts and dreams on a computer screen.

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories say they have succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain that may open the door to unexplored dimensions of the brain and shed light on the function of dreams in the human psyche.

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When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognizes an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain's visual cortex.

The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching these signals and then reconstructing what people see on screen.

In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word "neuron" and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.

That's crazy! I have some pretty weird dreams and I'd be really interested to watch them when I woke up. I hope they make this like a public thing where you can record your own dreams. I doubt they will though. It's just really cool.

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