Recording Dreams/mind hacking

Neurovax

of course it's from Japan....

It will be interesting to see how this develops......just seems like it paves the way for a whole new way to invade privacy. Hacking into someone's dream/mind? Companies inserting commercials into your dreams? Ugh.
I know it's a long way off if they can only get these blurry reconstructed images, but when it reaches the point of being able to translate more coherence, would you really show your dreams to other people?
I think it would be a great way to enhance creative potential; I get a lot of story and concept ideas from dreams and I'd like to remember more details about them. This would also be a good tool for developing lucid dream skills by being able to review them and being more aware of when you realized you're dreaming or not, and how you were able to affect things.

I guess now there is an app for smart phones that helps develop lucid dreaming; you program a sound to go off while you're dreaming to remind you that you indeed are; I believe this works by placing it on your chest as you're sleeping and it figures out from breathing movement when you're in REM. Ideally the sound is supposed to go off when you're awake too, to practice recognizing the sound and associating it with being aware.

I really enjoy one of the comments up under the video on youtube:

"like they need to read peopls minds. everything they need to know about people is on there facebook page"

.......so true.

*edit* sorry, just realized this should probably have gone in Akihabara. >_<v
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tonehog

Moved.
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750 · Net-Daemon Joined: 13 Dec 2010 Posts: 686

Now for them to pull off the same with the more portable feiter scanner:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Functional_Electrical_Impedance_Tomography_of_Evoked_Responses

Daedelus

Holy shit.

Wait let me rephrase that.

Holy jumping shit.

This is amazing! Even those little blurry images are a stepping stone of things to come, in about 10 - 20 years, just imagine how this will develop!
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PointZeroOne · Last edited by PointZeroOne on Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:54 am; edited 1 time in total

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Daedelus

tonehog

Yeah, too bad MRI's are noisy, else this might work. Recording visual cortex information is interesting, though.
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iHME · Cyberjunkie Joined: 09 Jan 2011 Posts: 298

Man that is cool, I wonder how well the process would work if it was not realtime.
Just save the data and let a supercomp crunch it.
Maybe we could get some more resolution that way.
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G4sM4sk · Disposable Assassin Joined: 02 Feb 2010 Posts: 1471

Heh only because they're the most repressed in the western world. :P the goverment watching the people and monitoring their usage. Laws against swearing and so on.

I once visited a village in Australia where all the villagers were under goverment control they said they were sad and that their cruel masters held the key to their spiritual chains and the only way they could be free was through the internet and even that was monitored.
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Neurovax

^
What?! @_0 lol......

Hmm I thought UK was the 'most watched' country. I've never been to Australia so I'm not sure; is it that repressed?
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G4sM4sk · Disposable Assassin Joined: 02 Feb 2010 Posts: 1471

the first part is true.

UK is watched in the meat with cameras but AUS is watched in the data with ISPs and usage monitors

the second part is a joke relating to another CPR member who often talks of metaphorical villages of his imaginination. :P
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