Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as
they entered into an early stage of sleep. Writing in the journal Science,
they reported that they could
do this with 60% accuracy. The team now wants to see if
brain activity can be used to
decipher other aspects of
dreaming, such as the
emotions experienced during
sleep. Professor Yukiyasu Kamitani,
from the ATR Computational
Neuroscience Laboratories, in
Kyoto, said: "I had a strong
belief that dream decoding
should be possible at least for particular aspects of
dreaming... I was not very
surprised by the results, but
excited." Brain wave People have been trying to
understand dreams since
ancient Egyptian times, but
the researchers who have
carried out this study have
found a more direct way to tap into our nighttime visions. The team used MRI scans to
monitor three people as they
slept. Just as the
volunteers
started to
fall asleep
inside the
scanners, they were
woken up
and asked to
recount what
they had
seen. Each image
mentioned,
from bronze statues to keys and ice picks, was noted, no matter how surreal. This was repeated more than 200 times for each participant. The researchers used the
results to build a database,
where they grouped together
objects into similar visual
categories. For example, hotel,
house and building were grouped together as
"structures". The scientists then scanned
the volunteers again, but this
time, while they were awake
and looking at images on a
computer screen. With this, they were able to
see the specific patterns of
brain activity that correlated
with the visual imagery. Dream machines?
During the next round of sleep
tests, by monitoring the brain
scans the researchers could tell
what the volunteers were
seeing in their dreams. They
were able to assess which broad category the images
were in with 60% accuracy. "We were able to reveal
dream content from brain
activity during sleep, which
was consistent with the
subjects' verbal reports,"
explained Professor Kamitani. The researchers now want to
look at deeper sleep, where
the most vivid dreams are
thought to occur, as well as
see whether brain scans can
help them to reveal the emotions, smells, colours and
actions that people experience
as they sleep. Dr Mark Stokes, a cognitive
neuroscientist from the
University of Oxford, said it
was an "exciting" piece of
research that brought us closer
to the concept of dream- reading machines. "It's obviously a long way off,
but there is no reason why not
in principle. The difficult thing
is to work out the systematic
mapping between the brain
activity and the phenomena," he explained. However, he added that a
single dream-reading system
would not work for everyone. "All of this would have to be
done within individual
subjects. So you would never
be able build a general
classifier that could read
anybody's dreams.

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I thought scientist dont belive in dream