Researchers in Japan used functional
neuroimaging to scan the brains of three people while they slept and
simultaneously recorded their brain waves with an EEG.
At any sign that the participants had fallen into a sleep onset, the
researchers woke them up and asked what they were dreaming about.
They were then allowed to go back to sleep. They did this in three hour blocks seven to ten times throughout the study. During each block, participants were woken up ten times per hour. Each volunteer reported having visual dreams six or seven times every hour, giving the researchers a total of around 200 dream reports.
From this information and other data gathered they pieced together the dreams of the participants. They have devised a method in decoding dreams and continue research in hopes to map out the dreams in the future.
They were then allowed to go back to sleep. They did this in three hour blocks seven to ten times throughout the study. During each block, participants were woken up ten times per hour. Each volunteer reported having visual dreams six or seven times every hour, giving the researchers a total of around 200 dream reports.
From this information and other data gathered they pieced together the dreams of the participants. They have devised a method in decoding dreams and continue research in hopes to map out the dreams in the future.
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