# Dream recording and playback

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-recording-and-playback/996185>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-recording-and-playback/996185 "2024-01-16T21:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-recording-and-playback/996185/1 "2024-01-16T21:09:07Z")

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Here is a [link to one of the stories.](https://news24online.com/tech/japanese-researchers-make-device-that-can-record-and-play-back-your-dreams/183795/)  
The Japanese have supposedly developed a way to record and playback dreams. I think there is an effort to associate certain brainwaves with objects, and it has been greatly exaggerated in news stories.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-recording-and-playback/996185/2 "2024-01-16T21:40:26Z")

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There is a lot of fMRI and related data on the brain’s response to visual stimuli:

> **[Mind Reading with Functional MRI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/05/270167/mind-reading-with-functional-mri/)**
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> Scientists use brain imaging to predict what someone is looking at.

> **[Brain Imaging Reveals What You’re Watching](https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/09/22/117633/brain-imaging-reveals-what-youre-watching/)**
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> Researchers develop an fMRI-based model to reconstruct moving images that people are seeing.

[https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans](https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans)

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-recording-and-playback/996185/3 "2024-01-16T23:51:56Z")

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Is what one “sees” in a dream related to what is seen with eyes? Are the same neural pathways involved?