Will we soon be able to watch our own dreams like movies?

A group of American scientists has decided to find a way to record our own dreams, CNN reported on Wednesday.

Daniel Odds, author of the book “The Lucid Dream Maniphesto,” has begun collaborating with David M. Schyner, a professor at the University of Austin, and they plan to record movements and words spoken in dreams.

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It has been established that while we sleep, our body sends impulses to the muscles in the same way as when we walk, so all “movements” will be monitored by electrodes connected to the limbs and head of the subjects.

Additionally, electrodes will be placed on their lips and throats to capture speech and other sounds we emit in our dreams.

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The results will then be compared with the subjects’ memories, after which they will attempt to reconstruct the dreamed scenes using magnetic resonance imaging.

By the way, although we dream four to six times a week, we forget as much as 90 percent of our dreams after about ten minutes. A duo from Harvard, John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, highlighted in a recent study that this should not even be called dreaming since it is an attempt by our brain to make some sense of the stimuli it received during the night while waking up.

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At the same time, neurologist Moran Cerf has begun working with patients who will undergo brain surgery and to whom electrodes will be connected directly to the brain. A special device then listens to and records the activity of brain cells, and Cerf believes that soon he will be able to determine with certainty whom we dreamed about.

“We will know if your mother walked into your dreams, but not how she was dressed and what she said,” Cerf said.

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The final goal, the ability to reproduce dreams like some kind of movie, is still at least a decade or two away, but the techniques mentioned in this text could be widely used within a year or two.