Japanese scientists have designedsoftwarecapable of taking images from
dreams and processing them into images on a computer
screen.
The team at the
ATR Computational Neuroscience
Laboratories produced the device by focusing on the image
recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye.
So far the technology can only reproduce simple dream images,
but the potential is there to unlock more complex dreams.
The study investigated how electrical signals, produced and sent
to the
brain by the eye's retina when it recognises an image, are
reconstructed into images by the brain.
It is the first time scientists have been able to produce images
directly from
brain activity.