What a Dream Looks Like

Nemke
11/26/11

Date of Article: November 23 2011
Author: Stephen Ornes
Source: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/11/what-a-dream-looks-like/

Summary
Do you think that taking pictures of dreams is a nice idea? Well Germany did that. “It’s really exciting that people have done this,” psychiatrist Edward Pace-Schott told Science News. The dreamer they used was a lucid dreamer which means he can control what he dreams. They used 6 lucid dreamers for the test. Scientists used fMRI which scans the blood flow in the brain and shows when different parts are active. Only one of the six dreamers was successful he dreamed about moving his left hand then moving his right hand. The fMRI showed that his brain was moving like he was doing it in real life.





My Opinion
I think this is real cool because it will help the scientists with further studies of sleep and dreams. I wonder what would happen if they read the mind of a person that claims to be able to read the future. This is a good way to get movie ideas and it would also be easy.