DreamCam

Most dreams are unfilmable, as are some novels (e.g., Life of Pi), being more cerebral and squishy. But some are highly lucid and visual, such as the one I had last night in which I was taking photos out of the window of a charming hotel room in some charming EuroCity (could have been Italy). I got a great shot of a white horse in a white tutu that I wish I could upload to my digital photo collection. Wouldn’t it be nice if … Let me rephrase that. With advances in brain scanning and improved understanding of how the visual system works (images are represented by one-to-one spatial maps of the retina onto the visual cortex), it should be straightforward any day now to record what the brain is seeing into a digital format and store it in a computer. The invention is to apply that nascent technology to storing digital images of what a person “sees” when dreaming a lucid image.

(Note: the idea above was posted as above earlier this morning, then deleted after I found much the same idea posted in 2003 by TIB as Dream Machine. So I posted it as a anno to another thread (Blatantly Idiotic Predictions ). Meanwhile back at the ranch [2fries] was busy creating a creative reply to the original post. So as not to waste such creativity and interest, I am reinstating the original post here, with due respect to TIB in 2003.)