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A window into dreams may now be opening.
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Yukiyasu Kamitani
Kyoto
And now, scientists in Japan are reporting that they have taken a step toward doing just that. Yukiyasu Kamitani is a neuroscientist in Kyoto who led the work.
We built a decoding program for the decoding of dream contents, by analyzing brain activity during sleep.
Here's how Kamitani's team built their dream decoding program. First, they conducted brain scans over and over and over again on three volunteers, just as they were starting to dream.
We focused on dream experience which can be detected just a few minutes after the sleep onset.
The researchers woke up the study subjects repeatedly to ask them to describe their dreams. So they could start to figure out which patterns of brain activity matched specific parts of their dreams.
Many of them were just about daily life - in office or home - but some are funny, bizarre, you know, experience.
Including one man who dreamed he was having dinner with a famous Japanese movie star.
The scientists then did more brain scans while the volunteers were awake, so they could tweak their decoding program. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:19:24