We’ve all woken up with our hearts racing, haven’t we? Sometimes our dreams can feel so real, you have an appointment and your late but you can’t find anything. You stand up to give a speech and discover you’re completely naked. You have a bizarre dream about a neighbor or about your best friend’s sister. We get it!
They say
that dreams are just our subconscious thoughts. That being naked means you’re
shy. That you probably don’t actually want to sleep with your best friends’ sister.
Phew!
It would
still be pretty unsettling to most of us though, if these dreams could be
played back.
Well, that
is exactly what scientists are currently working on.
The team
plan to use a mobile MRI to record speech, movement and images in dreams. It
turns out nothing is private anymore!
I wonder if
we will have the same data protection issues we have had with Alexa, will there
be companies all over the world secretly viewing people’s dreams? How embarrassing
would that be? Think of all of the weird and wonderful things you have dreamt
in the past, think of that dream where you are naked in front of your entire
class.
When you
wake up from one of those naked dreams you are usually pretty thankful that no
one actually witnessed you naked and in blind panic. But what if, just by
dreaming it, you had provided people with that dream to witness?
What
implications could this technology have on our legal system? People lie all of
the time. In their heads they know the truth, but they consciously decide to be
dishonest. When asleep, your mind replays things. You don’t have the option to
lie. Are courts going to be using “dream evidence” soon?
Would it be
ethical? I certainly don’t think it could be reliable. A jury may believe it
though. If they watched you admitting guilt in your dreams, it could be enough
to seal the deal.
Government
officials keep an awful lot of confidential information in their heads, don’t
they? If someone were to capture the right person, they may be able to use this
technology to their advantage.
Perhaps it
could be said that if this technology were to be invented, they may also be able
to invent a way to guard against it. How would you train someone not to dream
though?
Comments
Post a Comment