8 Times Science Did The Impossible

8. The Dream Recorder

In a move that is equal parts awesome and death-nell-for-freedom-of-thought-ish, scientists have been able to record, decode and reconstruct people's thoughts using the magic of fMRI.

The scientists in Tokyo hooked their test subjects up to an EEG, stuck them in an fMRI scanner and started by taking lots of baseline readings, imaging the subjects brains as they began to dream and teaching the algorithm what those patterns meant.

They were later able to actually reconstruct the dreams of the test subjects, using thousands of images taken from the web. Scientists at UC Berkeley have also come up with some similar results.

You don't have to worry about the Thought Police spying on your dreams just yet, as the technology is still in its infancy, but perhaps some day in the future, we will be able to use it to record dreams, develop telepathic interfaces, or even communicate with coma and locked-in patients.