



I. Storing Dream Images



fMRI scan
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II. Predicting, Recording the Dreams 



fMRI dream database
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Sources: Science [abstract], BBC News

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RE: Wierd....
By geddarkstorm on 4/7/2013 12:40:47 PM , Rating: 2
When you sleep, it's been found in rodent studies that the brain will reactivate in a similar order the neurons you used while you were awake to do important tasks or process important information. For example, the location responsive neurons tracked while a rat is running a maze will reactive in the same procession while a rodent is asleep, as if it were running the maze again. It's probably part of memory consolidation, or the system playing "safetly" (since it's decoupled from your motor system while you sleep) with different pathways.

This study -trained- its subjects brains on a set of images, and then recorded the same areas of the brain being active while they slept. In short.. this study kinda cheated. They were guaranteed their study participants would likely be evaluating that information in their sleep, and so it was more a test of the detection equipment than "listening in on sleep".

