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		Brain scans can reveal the visual images that people see while they are asleep. This is very bad news for married men (bbc.co.uk)		47
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Generation_D		2013-04-06 08:49:42 AM

If they can read dreams, it won't be too long until

stickymagazine.com

They live inside of my head.

ms_lara_croft		2013-04-06 09:41:44 AM

Approves.

Klippoklondike		2013-04-06 09:46:06 AM

"That I don't support Technicolor parfaits and snobby petite bourgeois is common knowledge in Oceania! Now is the time to return home to the blue sky! The confetti will dance around the shrine gates. The mailbox and the refrigerator will lead the way! Anyone who cares about expiration dates will not get in the way of the glory train!"

i267.photobucket.com

Sock Ruh Tease		2013-04-06 11:10:30 AM

Anastacya		2013-04-06 11:39:30 AM

House did it. I forget which season/episode, but I remember that they used the technology and the patient was thinking of baseball or something. I am sure someone will know which episode because I am too lazy to look.

/busy day.... but not for another hour :P

swahnhennessy		2013-04-06 11:45:54 AM

desolation15		2013-04-06 11:49:15 AM

Brain scan says I'm dreaming about this:

news.bbcimg.co.uk

But I'm really only dreaming about this:

105.imagebam.com

MacDole		2013-04-06 11:55:17 AM

I love how they're claiming to read dreams by being able to say the person is seeing a structure or a person. Seriously? I can talk to any person who has been dreaming and say "I read your dreams and you saw a structure and a vehicle" and I bet 60% of them would say "um ... Sure!"

cgraves67		2013-04-06 11:56:43 AM

I don't think I can fall asleep inside an MRI.

Setsuna		2013-04-06 12:00:04 PM

malaktaus		2013-04-06 12:05:42 PM

Sure, if they're married to irrational harridans.

Peki		2013-04-06 12:23:38 PM

Thanks. My nights already feature hallucinations that try to kill me. I don't need to encounter the images while I'm awake too.

/RISP is a biatch

LDM90		2013-04-06 12:52:14 PM

malaktaus: Sure, if they're married to irrational harridans.

New band name. BAM!

RedVentrue		2013-04-06 01:29:07 PM

FTA "You would never be able to build something that could read other peoples thoughts without them knowing about it, for example."

Umm, not without a lot more research, and applied remote sensing capability.

I give it 5 years.

malaktaus: Sure, if they're married to irrational harridans.

98% of wives are irrational harridans.

Yes please		2013-04-06 02:01:00 PM

BumpInTheNight		2013-04-06 02:26:13 PM

Sock Ruh Tease: [pbfcomics.com image 850x283]

Leavin' satisfied.

InternetSecurityGuard		2013-04-06 02:53:49 PM

It's been done before.

ratman999		2013-04-06 02:57:53 PM

swahnhennessy: [i2.listal.com image 600x339]

I know almost nobody agrees with me, but it was a really great movie.

Smoking GNU		2013-04-06 03:45:04 PM

(Japanese scientists)

Why am i not surprised?

shanrick		2013-04-06 04:34:03 PM

diaphoresis		2013-04-06 04:59:42 PM

mjjt		2013-04-06 05:14:08 PM

Farkers

BigLuca		2013-04-06 05:56:09 PM

desolation15: Brain scan says I'm dreaming about this:

[news.bbcimg.co.uk image 304x405]

But I'm really only dreaming about this:

[105.imagebam.com image 141x203]

Holy shiat. Put that in a link and mark it NSFW. Mods ban this arsehole.

lordargent		2013-04-06 05:57:14 PM

Anastacya: House did it.

EVERYONE did it.

gozar_the_destroyer		2013-04-06 06:25:44 PM

I have to post it? Fine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU">http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU

\not a rick roll

diaphoresis		2013-04-06 06:55:06 PM

gozar_the_destroyer: I have to post it? Fine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU">http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU

\not a rick roll

Epic win!

rooftop235		2013-04-06 07:43:42 PM

cgraves67: I don't think I can fall asleep inside an MRI.

About 15 years ago i did just that! Sacked out To the rhythm. The nurses were astounded.

sotua		2013-04-06 07:44:30 PM

cgraves67: I don't think I can fall asleep inside an MRI.

Amateur.

/been there, done that

ModernLuddite		2013-04-06 08:34:17 PM

My dreams tend to be very abstract. If I could have a visual representation of some aspect of my dreams, I would enjoy it. Because nightmarish Lovecraftian tchotchkes will be hip in the future.

DeaH		2013-04-06 09:29:54 PM

Subby, guess what your wife is dreaming about.

doloresonthedottedline		2013-04-06 09:46:38 PM

MacDole: I love how they're claiming to read dreams by being able to say the person is seeing a structure or a person. Seriously? I can talk to any person who has been dreaming and say "I read your dreams and you saw a structure and a vehicle" and I bet 60% of them would say "um ... Sure!"

From the article it sounds like they're specifically referring to dreams during hypnagogia. I have narcolepsy so I have pretty vivid images in that stage of sleep every night, and its really more like a constantly morphing slideshow of an object shifting, or related objects shifting. Sometimes I'll see faces that shift (old man to a girl to someone else, different angles, etc) but it still stays faces, or cartoon looking animals, etc. The images are simple enough that 60% accuracy sounds pretty farking amazing. It's nothing like actual REM dreams, although I think it slips into REM for me because I'm narcoleptic.

doloresonthedottedline		2013-04-06 09:48:51 PM

rooftop235: cgraves67: I don't think I can fall asleep inside an MRI.

About 15 years ago i did just that! Sacked out To the rhythm. The nurses were astounded.

I used to fall asleep at the dentist when they had my mouth pried open with with that metal thing that had rubber stretched across? And they were digging and drilling and whatever else. Only had stuff to numb the area they were working on, too. Fell asleep all the time there.

Dialectic		2013-04-06 09:55:14 PM

If ever they scan my brain, they's say: He got pussy on the brain.

Ginnungagap42		2013-04-06 11:35:04 PM

InternetSecurityGuard: [i205.photobucket.com image 240x199]

It's been done before.

Came to post this. I see my work is already done.

hammer85		2013-04-07 12:33:53 AM

I'd love to see my wife's brain scans. She talks constantly in her sleep (and will talk back to you if you talk to her), and she has some pretty bizzare things to say (like something that turns people into babies if they look at a baby).

LoneVVolf		2013-04-07 12:47:02 AM

Headline: Scientists can see your dreamzors!
Article: Scientists can correlate dream brainwaves corresponding several generic phenotypes with waking brainwaves corresponding with conscious brainwaves of the same generic phenotype with SLIGHTLY more than coin-flip accuracy.

wraithmare		2013-04-07 02:32:00 AM

ratman999: swahnhennessy: [i2.listal.com image 600x339]

I know almost nobody agrees with me, but it was a really great movie.

As did I. It was very good and well done. Plus, a very good soundtrack!

/Sax and Violins

SteakMan		2013-04-07 05:05:13 AM

wraithmare: ratman999: swahnhennessy: [i2.listal.com image 600x339]

I know almost nobody agrees with me, but it was a really great movie.

As did I. It was very good and well done. Plus, a very good soundtrack!

/Sax and Violins

I always list it as my all time favorite.

blue_2501		2013-04-07 07:11:05 AM

blue_2501		2013-04-07 07:13:25 AM

/because I have an excuse to advertise this awesome band...

MacWizard		2013-04-07 08:11:14 AM

I once had to sleep on the couch for a week because of what I did in one of my wife's dreams.

Alocksly		2013-04-07 08:12:58 AM

Oh, senator Bix?

http://pbfcomics.com/160/

Mister Peejay		2013-04-07 10:03:34 AM

blue_2501: [images2.alphacoders.com image 850x637]

/because I have an excuse to advertise this awesome band...

They covered Metallica's entire Master of Puppets album in-concert, which alone makes them cool.

Freschel		2013-04-07 03:51:57 PM

Once this technology is perfected law enforcement agencies will abuse the hell of it and roughshod peoples rights. And of course "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to be afraid of".

caddisfly		2013-04-07 04:18:57 PM

swahnhennessy: [i2.listal.com image 600x339]

Well done. I still have that soundtrack on cassette! Also:
alienationmentale.files.wordpress.com

RockofAges		2013-04-07 10:50:18 PM

What, no Fortress? Christopher Lambert and Vernon Wells AND Red Foreman hang their heads in simultaneous shame.

www.virginmedia.com

Mega Steve		2013-04-08 03:07:56 AM

I rarely have erotic dreams (that I can remember). When I DO have them, I wake up before it gets good

/Except that one with Pauly Perrette
//I don't care what anyone says. I think she's smokin' hot

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