One of my all-time favourite films is Wim Wenders´ Until the End of the World, a wonderful , surreal road movie that is a must see for all reading RS.

 

It describes exactly such a technology , and the possible consequences.

Get off your technofetishism and  start digging, i say!

Woah, this could be a wonderful window into ones own psyche, but I agree that if exploited (like most good-intended technology!) it could be very dangerous for everyone's psyche! Great story, thanks!

"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld

Yeah it definitely sounds neat, but some things should be private. We should be able to tell people about our dreams if we choose to. It's like a thought reading machine or something. I'd like my dreams to be private until I choose to share them.

 

What's the benefit from this technology? or is it just some sort of 'look what I can do' sort of thing? It reminds me of some movie with robin williams, I think, set in the future and there's some chip in people's heads that records all memories... creepy. Do you think knowing that people could see your dreams would effect your dreams?

 

Be the change you want to see.

I thought of that movie too, he would edit their thoughts to make the final story of their lives for posterity, and he was able to see everything they did, many horrible things...

"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld

Paprika, anyone? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/

"All things are possible once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake." -Norman Cousins

This technology is nothing short of astounding. It always amazes me the things that we do, and the ways in which our society perverts and exploits these things.

 I guess I am just not really sure about the beneficial use of these machines. I would practically suppose that this could be used for mental health purposes, especially in the cases of those who are suffering from severe mental disorders.

 My question would be that if they can measure the images of those who are asleep and convert those thoughts (dreams) into pictures, then can they do this for those who are awake? Say, for instance, those with schizophrenic minds? That would be helpful!

This article reminds me of a Built to Spill song where they sing, "I wanna see the movies of my dreams." I remember having a particularly opening psychedelic experience with a friend where we got into a conversation about that lyric. We both agreed that it would be fascinating to watch our own dreams, but that we probably wouldn't want others to watch them (and that we probably wouldn't be all that interested in watching other people's dreams as they are usually very personal and may not be all that interesting to others).

I wouldn't mind sharing my dreams with my wife or close friends, but even that would be fraught with potential dangers. But so far as studying the workings of the mind, this is definitely fascinating though I am still quite incredulous as to how accurate this technology is and will be.

If every commentator here would just see the movie mentioned above by "Ecolocal", the discussion might move to a higher level. Wenders details how humans would become obsessive about technology such as this and addiction would soon result. It's not other peoples dreams that would intrigue a person, but their own. Narcissistic-narcotic-Pyschotherapy... "Sehr deutsch ". The details of this Mapping Dreams device remain unclear. Neural brain activity on a graph is a long way from a photographic image of an actual dream. Even further than that would be a movie/story which could entertain (entrainment?) If it turns out that dreams are shaped by current conditions and events in ones daily life then the whole thing is a mute point anyway. We know that memories are not reliable so dreams based on them are what?

Tell me how we "know" that memories are unreliable! Also, how are dreams based on memories the only kind of dreams we dream?

"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld

HD dreams baby! bring it. time to wake up and play babies! understand the unconscious like never before. time to swim in the oddworld. everyone trippin on our dreamy lives. figuring the thang out, uhhuh. chrrrrrippp.

 

 we wants to remember! we gotsta remember. we got no choice, remember?

 

hey, you, this is my cloud. but you can sit here if you let me borrow two lightnings.

 

just a vague outline of our dreams would be a huge help in remembering and tapping them. what happens when we can watchthe forbidden dreams lost to the dark? the stuff in the heavy sleep when we are truly blissing/freaking out. what the f is down there? pandora's box is being opened ever so slowwwwwwwwly.. but hold on to your butt cheeks now, the sounds.. they grow.

 

maaan the kids would diiig this shit. they would share their dreams no problem. scaredy people might not. wounded male geeks might not. maybe until they saw everyone else changing too fast. the kids would go bonobo for this. they dgaf man. theyd become infinite giggle pools watching they're increasingly silly dreams. and i would swim in them in an infinite heartbeat. theyd freak each other out on scary ass dreams and raise their freak tolerance and scary ass tolerance. our tolerance tolerance would be through the mother floppin roof. everythings gonna go through the mother fappin roof shizz gonn be off the chain.

 

 i've had dreams scarier than any movie i ever saw. it would take everything to a higher level. tolerance of happiness, fear, hate, hunger, color, exhilaration, ecstasy, whatever.. everything at the same time. and then comes the light

 

(im not allowed to curse on here, right? cant we just curse, it doesn't really matterrrrr its not a big deeeeeal, but yeah i know.. oh well thats ok.. like i said, itdoesn't really matter)

 

man life is weird huh? and getting weirder, huh? are y'all getting weirder, or is it just me?

My Dreams would surely make for good films as they tend to be rather vivid...this makes me think of the films "Brainstorm" and "Strange Days"...and how incredible it would be to tap into the dream realm in HD...that is years away, could be fascinating! visit Myztico's Visionary Psychedelic Surrealism Gallery at:      www.myztico.mosaicglobe.com 

I began working with dream recall in June of 1975 and to date have 15,700+ dreams written in a multitude of notebooks. I'm now in the process of scanning the notebooks so that I can maintain an easier to handle storage system. And because some of the 3500 pages have started to show their age. As a long time dreamer, I always wanted some sort of dream VCR to catch the ones that got away. Knowing that some dreams are precognitive and others are just plain fun, I think that it would be a great boon to any dreamer to keep recordings of their dream content. My only fear is that the device would make us lazy and keep us from doing things the old fashioned way. Not to mention it would probably put Shamans out of business.