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(Scroll down for video) Are you having wonderful dreams, but by the time you wake up you forget all about it? Don’t worry.
Scientist have now found a way to be able to read your dreams, according to press reports in the United kingdom.
If you want your dreams recorded, get pattern recognition software and some MRI equipment.
Japanese scientists said that they have found a way to read people's dreams, using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind.
Researchers have achieved what they said is the first in the world night vision decoding.
In the study, researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, used magnetic resonance imaging to pinpoint what part of the brain is activated during the early stages of sleep.
Then, they woke up the dreamer and asked what images they had seen, a process that was repeated 200 times. The responses were compared with brain maps the MRI scanner produced.
Next, the researchers were able to predict the images the volunteers had seen with a rate of 60 percent accuracy, reaching more than 70 percent with a total of 15 specific topics, including men, words and books, they said.
“I think that I would want to record some of my dreams and see them after I wake up. Sometimes, I cannot remember my dream but I know it was a good one,” Ralph Hall, 52, of Tokyo, Japan, who is an experienced fortune teller told YourJewishNews.com.
"We concluded that we have correctly read some types of dreams with a distinctive high success rate," Yukiyasu Kamitani, senior researcher in the laboratory and head of the study team, said. "I think this was a key step in the direction of dream reading," the scientist added.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view