Please post related articles http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/
I think it's fake, personally, sounds like some scientists trying to get a grant, but it'd be interesting to see what else is out there on this.
I don't think it is completely fake. There is a ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories. http://www.cns.atr.jp/dcn/ They do study brain activity. There is a Dr. Cheng, apparently - although i can't find any of his publications on this. He, aparently said: “By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams.” Now, I don't think he meant that in the near future they will be able to record dreams per se. What I think is though, a modicum of success has been inflated into something that will not occur for atleast 30-40 years if at all. I have seen blind people see with a similar science but in reverse. Images were "implanted" into the brain rather than extracted. Basic block images. Fully realised colour - or even black and white - images that you could describe as "dream like" that move and flow in real time - is unlikely unless they build a bio-computer some time in the future.
I think it'd be fascinating to watch other people's dreams and show them my own, like on a 'dreamtube,' but the potential for abuse is so high that this is a bit worrying. It could also allow communication with people in comas, mental diseases, mutes. If only allowed to the proper hands it would be an amazing advance in technology. But the government just couldn't resist using it for interrogation, and all kinds of secret projects.. I'm waiting for someone to draw the line between this and 'project blue beam'
I've yet to convince myself project blue beam exists, so I'm waiting for one of the experts to arrive It is an interesting notion, at least.
Project Bluebeam exists -- the technology exists. It was alluded to recently in an article by the Guardian, titled Bees on the battlefield - and other US military experiments. The technology referred to in the OP's article is really nothing new, like most technology the public is unaware of. Andrija Puharich was one of the early pioneers of this sort of technology, but was more focused on implanting ideas into people's heads electronically.
