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Entering Dreams- Is this happening?<\/h1>\n

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Entering Dreams- An Introduction to the Concept<\/h2>\n

The 2010 Christopher Nolan movie- “Inception”- got the whole world visualize the possibility of invading and hijack dreams. In this movie Dominick Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief whose job is stealing corporate secrets by invading a target\u2019s dreams. It was an extremely well directed movie with dramatic action scenes and amazingly realistic computer graphics.<\/p>\n

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What stuck\u00a0 viewers the most was the the ambiguous ending that prompted debates and discussions across the web. The end scene showed a spinning top, which Dominick Cobb used to check if he was dreaming or awake. If the top fell, Dominick would know\u00a0 was awake. If the top kept spinning, it meant he was dreaming. The movie ends abruptly before the viewers could see the fate of the top. Viewers left movie halls\u00a0 wondering- was it a dream or reality?<\/p>\n

This movie was superb food for imagination, albeit a scary one. What if it is really possible for a person to enter someone else’s dreams?<\/p>\n

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Can Signals from Dreams Be Broadcasted into a TV and viewed?<\/h2>\n

A broadcasting studio captures the performances of actors via digital video cameras. The images and sounds thus captured gets converted into electrical signals. These electrical signals are then converted into radio waves which travel miles across the world at the speed of light to reach our homes. The television in our living rooms decode radio waves back to the performances of actors with near exact shape, color and sound.<\/p>\n

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Every thought that emerges in our brain generates electrical signals. A dream is a collection of thoughts flowing while one is asleep. Logically, it should be possible to decode the brain signals to reveal the thoughts that generated those electrical signals.<\/p>\n

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In 2005 scientists at Kyoto were able to perform such decoding of thoughts. Using neuroimaging techniques and complex statistical algorithms, these scientists were able to translate brain activity of any person and accurately predict the direction where the person was looking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2017 scientists at Carnegie Mellon University provided some clues how brain activity for complex thoughts can be be decoded. Their research was able to predict semantic content of a sentence thought be a person, with 86% accuracy<\/a>. It is now theoretically possible to offer a sort of textual representation of human thoughts. One can imagine a ticker tape that is\u00a0 constantly translating the thoughts breezing through a person\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n

But thoughts are not just words- there are pictures and sounds and smell and feeling. Thoughts are so much beyond just words!<\/p>\n

In 2019 Kyoto university advanced our understanding of how thought of an image can be deconstructed into an actual image.<\/a> The scientists behind this revolutionary research are the same ones who demonstrated in 2005 that brain signals can be used to predict direction. Taking help of artificial intelligence, they developed a software that could read “human thought” and convert it into a image. The constructed images aren\u2019t perfect though. They are but grossly distorted, nevertheless close to the image in the “thought”<\/p>\n