Brain scanner ‘reads’ people’s dreams – accurately enough to see what they are dreaming about

Rob Waugh
Mail Online
October 28, 2011

Most of us remember only a tiny fraction of our dreams – but that could soon change.

Scientists predict that we could soon use computers to ‘see’ what we have dreamed about – and perhaps even record dreams to watch the next day.

Psychiatrists at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany think have already demonstrated that brain scanners can see into the dreams of ‘lucid dreamers’ – people who can control their dreams.

It means that recent breakthroughs in ‘reading’ the thoughts of waking subjects using brain monitors could apply to dreamers too.

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This article was posted: Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6:21 am

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