CRAAAAAAZY!  Wait, no, that doesn't express my true feelings... lemme try again:

 

Woo!  OK, I think I'm calmed down enough now to tell you about this (I think).

So there are these scientists in California and in Japan that can recreate images that you look at JUST by studying your brain!  Well, you do have to be laying in a huge metal tube with magnets swirling around your head and have a really advanced computer program, but STILL!

These scientists say that within the next 10 years, they might be able to record your mind while you're asleep and then recreate your dreams as a movie.  Now THAT would be awesome!

Right now, here's what they are able to recreate from your brain.  Scientists show you a random picture, and then they are able to recreate a blobby, black and white image that kinda looks like what they showed you.

For example if they showed you the picture on the left, they could use a computer to read your mind and get the image on the right.
 

So, this is definitely not perfect yet (as you can probably tell), but they're getting closer!  The scientists say that the more pictures they show the computer, the better it gets at interpreting your thoughts!

Just think about all of the cool things they could do with this technology!  Besides recording movies of your dreams, they're getting closer to using your thoughts to control a computer!  Now THAT is awesome!

You could seriously THINK "go to Science Monster", and the computer would do it!  ACK!  I'm like flipping out over here!

 

 

Source:  "The Quest to Read the Human Mind", Lisa Katayama, Popular Science, 9 February 2010.