Japanese Researchers have developed a new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor. Further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.

By studying the activity in the brain when a subject is looking at a particular visual field, scientists have subsequently been able to work backwards in producing images translated from brain activity.

A future version of this technology could be applied in the fields of art and design — particularly if it becomes possible to quickly and accurately access images existing inside an artist’s head. According to the scientists, this technology can also be applied to senses other than vision. In the future, it may also become possible to read feelings and complicated emotional states.

(via NewScientist)

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