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Watching your recorded dreams in the television may sound far-fetched or science fiction, but in fact, the Japanese researchers have found a way to turn those thoughts into images that can be played on a screen. Japanese researchers demonstrated how to show dreams on the screen (1) by using Neural decoding. The ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories made a system that samples electrical signals produced by the visual cortex of the brain.

Professor Yukiyasu Kamitani from Kyoto University started working on decoding images from dreams. He published a study that showed the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging that detects by observing the blood flow to make images from the mind of waking a person.

Professor Kamitani further explained that their approach can be used to reconstruct various types of subjective states such as dreams, illusions and hallucinations and thus paving a way to the contents of the brain. The brain patterns can allow researchers to predict the content of dreams.

You can see the photos of recorded dreams in Professor Kamitani's Twitter Account

Twitter of Professor Yukiyasu Kamitani

https://twitter.com/ykamit

For citations and reference:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/639

Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep
T. Horikawa1,2, M. Tamaki1,*, Y. Miyawaki3,1,†, Y. Kamitani1,2,‡
1ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.
2Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
3National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.
Corresponding author. E-mail: kmtn@atr.jp
Present address: Brown University, 190 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

Present address: The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.

Science  03 May 2013:
Vol. 340, Issue 6132, pp. 639-642
DOI: 10.1126/science.1234330

Tags: Dream, Japanese researchers, Japanese technology, technology, Neural technology, recording dreams, Brain Imaging, Mind, Thoughts