Scientists have designed the world's first inception-style 'dream reader' that can decode your dreams with reasonable accuracy.
In the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer Inception, people manipulate other people's dreams and steal their sleeping thoughts.
In a new study, neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani and colleagues at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, Japan monitored three young men as they tried to get some sleep inside an fMRI scanner while the machine monitored their brain activity.
Researchers also monitored each volunteer's brain activity with EEG electrodes, and when they saw an EEG signature indicative of dreaming, they woke him up to ask what he'd been dreaming about.
Researchers call it "hypnagogic imagery," the dream-like state that occurs as people fall asleep.
They woke up each subject at least 200 times over the course of several days to build up a database of dream reports, website 'wired.com' reported.
