Thread: What If We Could Record Our Dreams?

Do you think that, sometime in the future, people will invent a way to record our dreams, through some sort of video capture device for watching later? It seems really farfectched to me now, but who knows? Maybe someday it'll happen.

...I hope I'm alive to see that day. xD

What do you guys think?

It would be awsome, and it could prove dream sharing (if 2 people had the same dream recorded and one of them was lucid).

yeah, that would be sweet. it would be so much easier to remember dreams and stuff because you could always watch it later. but i highly doubt that will ever be possible, especially during our lifetimes.

Originally Posted by FluBB

yeah, that would be sweet. it would be so much easier to remember dreams and stuff because you could always watch it later. but i highly doubt that will ever be possible, especially during our lifetimes.
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Yeah, it's pretty far off, that's for sure.

That's not possible, nor is it needed. Dreams are conceptual thought, not visual imagery. The sensory information in dreams is presented in conceptual thought and we, being used to our senses in the waking state, interpret it as a physical manifestation when dreaming.

And, conceptual thought being the most optimal of ways to communicate (as opposed to speech - the most awkward and uncomfortable), it wouldn't be possible to consciously create a system that would interpret it, let alone create a technical solution to capture it.

Originally Posted by Merlock

That's not possible, nor is it needed. Dreams are conceptual thought, not visual imagery. The sensory information in dreams is presented in conceptual thought and we, being used to our senses in the waking state, interpret it as a physical manifestation when dreaming.

And, conceptual thought being the most optimal of ways to communicate (as opposed to speech - the most awkward and uncomfortable), it wouldn't be possible to consciously create a system that would interpret it, let alone create a technical solution to capture it.
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Yeah, that's true. It would be cool though.

We already have the means to record our dreams. It's called "artistic media." 2D animation, 3D animation. Granted, it takes a lot of time and practice (something that many people just aren't willing to give) to be able to properly convey their experiences, but it's entirely possible.
As far as technologically, though, I'm with Merlock.

that would be cool..