My opinion:
I always thought that it would be cool if you would be able to actually record your dreams. Whenever I
think that I remember a dream, I can never actually recall everything that happened. It seems next to
impossible. Since lucid dreaming allows you to control what happens in your dream, it is apparently
much easier to recall what happened since you got to decide.
What surprised me:
think that I remember a dream, I can never actually recall everything that happened. It seems next to
impossible. Since lucid dreaming allows you to control what happens in your dream, it is apparently
much easier to recall what happened since you got to decide.
While researching lucid dreaming and its effects on the human mind, I came across information
regarding the research of new technology which would allow you to record your dreams for playback.
It started with scientists at the Max Planck
Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and then moved all
the way to UC Berkeley with different information
being discovered at each step of the way. When the
experiments started in Munich, the lucid dreamers
were told to signal to the researchers once they were in
a lucid dream. They were to signal them by blinking
their eyes in a certain way and clenching their fists.
From this, the “functional magnetic resonance imaging scans
enabled the researchers to gain a live view of what goes on in
the brain during this lucid action” (Hobson, Allan J). When the
lucid dreamers clenched their fists in real life to signal the
scientists, the same areas of the brain were also active during
the lucid dream. The same phenomenon occurred even if the
lucid dreamer just imagined themselves making a fist.
regarding the research of new technology which would allow you to record your dreams for playback.
Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and then moved all
the way to UC Berkeley with different information
being discovered at each step of the way. When the
experiments started in Munich, the lucid dreamers
were told to signal to the researchers once they were in
a lucid dream. They were to signal them by blinking
their eyes in a certain way and clenching their fists.
enabled the researchers to gain a live view of what goes on in
the brain during this lucid action” (Hobson, Allan J). When the
lucid dreamers clenched their fists in real life to signal the
scientists, the same areas of the brain were also active during
the lucid dream. The same phenomenon occurred even if the
lucid dreamer just imagined themselves making a fist.
The conclusion was drawn that through a combination of sleep EEGs and
imaging methods, people will soon be able to record, interpret and playback dreams. Once this i
information became knowledge of the rest of the researchers that were debating the topic. Researchers at
UC Berkeley were continuing the experimentation. After scanning the blood flow in their own minds as
they watched Hollywood movies, the team developed 18 million seconds of random YouTube clips that
acted as a sort of, as Hobson J. Allan put it, “paint pallete” that they could then work from. The
computer would then piece together the different colors from its “paint palette” to attempt to recreate
what the subjects were seeing in their dreams.
imaging methods, people will soon be able to record, interpret and playback dreams. Once this i
information became knowledge of the rest of the researchers that were debating the topic. Researchers at
UC Berkeley were continuing the experimentation. After scanning the blood flow in their own minds as
they watched Hollywood movies, the team developed 18 million seconds of random YouTube clips that
acted as a sort of, as Hobson J. Allan put it, “paint pallete” that they could then work from. The
computer would then piece together the different colors from its “paint palette” to attempt to recreate
what the subjects were seeing in their dreams.
On the left is the movie clip being watched by the lucid dreamer.
On the right is reconstructed "paint pallet" reconstructed from the MRI.
This could lead to a whole new form of creation in the modern world. If people could record their own
dreams, this would lead into creations from the subconscious mind. In my opinion, this would lead to
more artistic people in the world. I already have an artistic mind, but many people that say they are not
artistic would be surprised with what their subconscious could come up with.
Sources Used:
dreams, this would lead into creations from the subconscious mind. In my opinion, this would lead to
more artistic people in the world. I already have an artistic mind, but many people that say they are not
artistic would be surprised with what their subconscious could come up with.
Sources Used:
Hobson, Allan J., Edward F. Pace-Schott, and Robert Stickgold. "Dreaming and the Brain: Toward a
Cognitive Neuroscience of Conscious States." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (2000): 793-
1121. Print.
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