Invented the program 'read', seize the dream

Japanese scientists have programmed computers to 'read' our dreams.

According to scientists at the ATR Neuroscience Laboratory in Japan, the 'dream catcher' achieves up to 60 percent accuracy, an impressive 'result.'

Although the level of detail is far away from the film fantasy Inception that Leonardo DiCaprio played quite far. In DiCaprio, people can control the dream of others and steal their thoughts while they are sleeping. Just a few years ago, such accomplishments could only be seen in the Star Trek fantasy movie .

Japanese scientists began scanning the brains of three volunteers as they slept with magnetic resonance imaging cameras. Every six or seven minutes, they are excited to wake up and are asked to describe in detail what is going on in their dreams.

This process is repeated until every participant has 200 dreams. For example, a man described his dream: 'From heaven, I saw a large bronze statue. The statue was on a small hill. Under the hill there are many houses, streets, trees.

Computer programs are programmed to "read" dreams for up to 60% accuracy .

These descriptions will be analyzed and the main ideas in each volunteer's dream will be divided into 20 sections. After waking up, participants will be shown photos from subdivisions and brain scans once. A computer program quickly filters out the 'signs' of brain activity with each item.

The last part of the experiment, the computer will use the information it has acquired to encrypt the brain scans as the volunteers fall asleep.

As a result, the computer can recognize images that are dreaming about 60%.

In the past, US imaging specialists have also used brain scan to predict whether a crime could be imminent. This technology can be used to find forgotten dreams.