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In a new study, scientists found that a computer can see a person’s dream based on his brain activity. Scientists measured the activity of the human brain during sleep time and were able to track characteristic patterns for objects – for example keys or beds. “We know almost nothing about dreaming, said one of the researchers, neuroscientist Masako Tamaki. – Using this method, we may be able to learn more about the nature of sleep. “In addition, the results of the study will help scientists. determine what happens in the human brain during nocturnal nightmares. In fact, scientists still don’t know why people see dreams. The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, believed that dreams reflect our desires, others believe that dreams are everything just a meaningless sleep product. Another interesting theory suggests that during sleep we solve problems and issues over which was thought during the day. Be that as it may, most people think that dreams really matter. Scientists have long wanted look inside the world of dreams. Not so long ago some researchers suggested that brain activity could encode to see thoughts and sleep. And really – on based on brain signals, scientists were able to create short video clips. So why not read the dreams? Tamaki together with her colleagues watched the brain activity of three experiment participants using functionally magnetic resonance imaging during their sleep. Researchers woke up the participants every few minutes to describe their dreams. In total, scientists collected 200 visual images. Researchers then tried to relate the content of participants’ dreams. before waking up with certain patterns of brain activity, and the computer studied these circuits. Using a special program the computer analyzed the dreams of the participants in the experiment. As a result managed to connect certain human sleep events with his brain activity during awakening. The study found that during the time of awakening, the same brain zones are activated as during appropriate sleep. “Sleep objects have a lot in common, therefore, taking the contents of ordinary sleep, we were able to compose a whole the plot of a dream that other people could see, “- Tamaki explained.
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