"Scientists can tell what you're dreaming: Scans can decipher sleeping thoughts for first time"…How long before the NSA will enter your dreams?
- Japanese researchers analysed the dreams of three men over several days
- The volunteers’ dreams were mostly mundane, with the most common themes including cars, women and computers
- The study found that activity in certain areas of the brain is the same whether a person is awake or asleep
Japanese scientists have found a way to decipher dreams for the very first time.
Their report shows that patterns of activity in certain visual parts of the brain are the same whether we are awake or dreaming.
Researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, scanned three male volunteers’ brains in an exhausting test over several days to examine how activity could be related to their dreams.
Japanese scientists have found a way to tell what people dream about by carrying out research on three men
Researchers scanned the volunteers’ brains as they slept to monitor activity over several days
The volunteers were woken up every time they began to nod off and dream. Each time, the men were asked what they had dreamed about before they fell back to sleep.
The process was repeated until an enormous 200 reports had been collated from each man.
The results showed that most of the dreams were about mundane, everyday life.