Dreams 'could be shown on computers'

I'd like to see them replicate my dreams. It would be out of this world, literally.

8/7/08

-It began with an increase in exotic animals in the yard , A tapir which I tried to ride went into a frenzy, crashing into an elephant who knocked down the fig tree. I warned dad after rescuing Geoff from the frenzied animals that it wasn't safe to keep animals of this size about. He told me they were abused refugee animals. My dad and his guys began uprooting the orchard and all the trees, in order to plant fruits and vegetables. Suddenly there were vegetables everywhere, and many more animals, I recall several gorilla. I began distributing ears of corn amongst the animals, which they devoured voraciously. I remember thinking several times it wasn't exactly safe to be this close to the animals, but they seemed ambivalent enough towards us.

- A second house has been constructed and conjoined with ours, with many luxury ameneties. Another family has moved in and the father seems very distressed. I try to console him, telling him that god will provide for him. He says he thought so too but he has lost everything. I think to tell him that god works in mysterious ways, but decide a different tact and tell him that all reality is a conscious reflection of self. I give him the example of the garden, with its vibrant fruits and animals, which I believe I have manifested through prayer.

-As I am going back downstairs after this, I stumble into, quite by accident, and discovering for the first time, the sauna. I encounter a teen boy there who I assume to be the man's son. He asks that I find someone to keep him company in the sauna. I tell him I will try. I exit through a different portal from whence I came and am deposited into a Highschool courtyard. There are a group of cool kids sitting. One makes a snide comment towards me and I shrug it off and continue on my way. They are suprised and another one says "Hey Noah, you're a pretty good wrestler, why didn't you do something"? I remember thinking 'Dude I weigh like 135 lbs.' , I don't think I told them that however.

- I make my way to a barn of some sort, and here my recollection is a bit hazy. There are what I presume to be the rest of my Highschool class in the room, and we are given a directive by what I think was some sort of alien intelligence. Most of the youth vacate the barn to carry out the orders and I begin to go with them but hesitate. I go back into the barn and there are several youths left, they ask me if I will resist with them. I agree after a moment (am not sure why I agreed, I don't recall a strong moral reasoning like earlier when I was consoling the dad) One of them says something along the lines of "They will just kill/dispose of us when they are done with us"

-Things go dark and scary. Still in the barn, I can hear wicked creatures all about and the fear is palpable. I slide open a door going into another section of the barn, the other section is dark and when I peer in there is some sort of monster on the other side, I panic and run from the barn out into the fields. Am being pursued by monsters, They are capable of jumping 60 or so feet in a single bound, incredible leapers. I manage to jump/dodge out of the way by the narrowest of margins each time, and it seems I am capable of some great leaping myself, although not as well as they.

-I make my way back to the house/garden and discover many other refugees there. It seems this place is a sanctuary the monsters may not enter. I encounter a stunningly beautiful blonde girl who beckons to me. Her hair and eyes are painted with flowers, that is, she is wearing makeup that gives her face and hair the appearance of a painting of flowers; very exquisite. Again she beckons, One of the refugees steps between us and warns me away, she is one of their agents. She cuts him and vanishes. His wound is on the arm and bleeding very severly, I am holding him and trying to bandage the wound, but just as I have it wrapped, an artery seems to burst and it soaks through the wrap. I recall trying to keep pressure but the blood flow is to strong. I think he will die.

-I awake.

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That's pretty amazing.
I can think of several ways it could be abused though...

As a natural lucid dreamer this intrigues the hell out of me. It would be neat to see this technology mature to the point where a lucid dreamer could verify the accuracy of the machine & vice versa. This could also help big time in understanding our dreams & dreamsigns (symbols) better, ergo ourselves. As well as record some pretty damn cool/freaky/scary/fun/sexy/comical etc scenes and events from our imaginations while we dose

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I strongly doubt this is anything but garbage. There is no precedent for such a capability. There is no research that would even indicate this is one the horizon. The closest I have heard about is the ability to noninvasively determine which object in a prespecified group a person is thinking about. That is only the most microscopic of baby steps towards anything resembling recreating a full scene. There would need to be a lot of advancement in various areas of neuroscience before that was possible.

BTW - the retina does not "process" anything. Even low level events, such as those causing saccades, are controlled in the brain. The retina simply transduces information.

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LOL! When they figure out WTF is going on visual, doesn't mean they'll know anything logically.

I wake up remembering many of my dreams and most of them make no damn sense.

Heck our waking reality makes almost no sense and now they are going to add dreams into the mix.

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OK, here is the link:
www.cell.com...(08)00958-6

It is more interesting than I expected. I'll have to ponder this...

Not good, the government could use this technology to control us even more,imagine them knowing everything u think at all time,maybe there gunna use this technology on the chip so they can have TOTAL control...reminds me of MGS4 lol

Not a Religious type but...

this will only bring what I can describe as God's Wrath or GW as some have come to call it.

This type of technology i would rather destroy just because the negative applications far superseed the positive. Patriot Act Cubed anyone.


Although it is amazing, and the discoveries would be outstanding, no one on earth should be granted this kind of power. NO ONE, it wont be long before this technologies are used to brainwash. I don't want to see penis enlargement and the new Batman movie * Robins Revenge* in my head.

Fox

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Thats awsome.....Something the U.S could have came up with but...hey Japan is about 10 yrs ahead of us in technologies....

Would be cool to have around tho...you know when you have those cool dreams and you would like to see them again...there you go

This is the beginning of the government's ability to read your mind if you are deemed a criminal to society. Throw out the polygraph, they want to know EVERYTHING.

This is interesting! It'd be very amazing to be able to record dreams and watch them later! It'd be especially interesting to see the ones that were somehow not remembered. I've heard that everyone dreams, even the people that never remember, so they'd finally be able to know some of their dreams.

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yes. Now one day i'll be able to have lucid dreams about all my nswf fantasies and then have them burned to dvd

Great news because I’m writing a book. This could help me to made a movie with outstanding special effect without horrendous budget. Everyone with fantasy could made a movie like Lord Of The Ring or Star Wars by capturing own imagination and editing it no his PC. I can’t wait that. Ehhh, in fact I don’t believe that. Probably ages will pass until that technology would allowed that. I suspect that at first that would be a kind of device big like a house which would allow us to possess a blurry image with very low resolution after the subject would ate basket of hallucinogen mushrooms and drank a gallon of '___'. lol

What?
Does I look like a skeptic?

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We can create a new TV channel Dream TV. All of us can be superstars. I wonder what impact such technology will have on the society? What will the Church and religious organizations think of this?

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I wonder if they can really figure out if people do dream in black and white, or whether they would be changed to colour.

HD dreams... cool.

There are some dreams that I wouldn't want my wife to see.

Otherwise I'd have some explaining to do.

This is definitely interesting. Imagine in the future instead of having to have years worth of time, millions of dollars to spend, and hundreds of people working around the clock just to make a movie, someone with an idea could just think up 2 hours worth of brilliance and send it to the theaters.

On the flip side, it is definitely scary. Our minds are the last places to which we can escape. It is absolutely 100% the last place someone can be completely themselves. I guess certain people are lowering that 100% down to 99%, 98%, and eventually, 0%.

Sounds pretty cool, although impossible landscapes and scenarios would probably be hard to recreate, not to mention a persons mood relative to these dreams.Hmmmm the more I think about it you would have to figure out every persons signals,(what pulls up a tree for one person could pull up any number of things for someone else.) How many things are there to figure? Too many!

It would also be kind of cool to see what people are thinking when they do certain things, like when someone does mental math or when someone's doing some deep thinking.

Originally posted by Osiris1953
I can't imagine that many dreams would be uncannily similar, but the idea of copyrighting the content of your own dreams is an interesting idea I had not yet considered. I suppose if they do end up getting used in a commercial sense one would have to copyright dreams in order to retain intellectual property of said dream... very odd thought indeed.

Imagine just what sort of dilemma it would create with people who have claimed to dream events in advance of their happening, and had a recorded dream stored of something that then occurred.

I know none of this will even become reality in my life time, but damn I wish it was.. I really like your version of the future up there