Is it possible to be in someone else's dream?

[withertdm]

I had an idea. I wanted to know if it would work.

 

I theorize that if you have machines that can electrically stimulate the brain and control what you are dreaming, you can have a machine take those little shocks or electricity and put it into another person to then have the receiver receive the same dream and if lucid, have the two people in the same dream, both aware and with both minds connected so each is talking to the other in the dream.

 

The device would stimulate the brain to create a lucid dream. Then, the other part would then copy over the electric signals and put them into the mind of the second person who would be dreaming the same dream, they then can move around and be lucid and have that signal sent to the first person who would see the second doing the same thing. They even can talk to each other and interact.

 

It may be vague, but would it work?

If it would work, would it be able to be built?

[John Cuthber]

I theorize that if you have machines that can electrically stimulate the brain and control what you are dreaming...

 

 

Would it still be a dream?

Incidentally, the answer to the question that forms the title of the tread is almost certainly yes.

For example I'm sure that Kylie Minogue has been in a lot of peoples' dreams.

Edited April 26, 2016 by John Cuthber

[withertdm]

Would it still be a dream?

Incidentally, the answer to the question that forms the title of the tread is almost certainly yes.

For example I'm sure that Kylie Minogue has been in a lot of peoples' dreams.

I believe it would be a dream, but it could possibly let you interact with a dreaming person.

[DrmDoc]

I had an idea. I wanted to know if it would work.

 

I theorize that if you have machines that can electrically stimulate the brain and control what you are dreaming, you can have a machine take those little shocks or electricity and put it into another person to then have the receiver receive the same dream and if lucid, have the two people in the same dream, both aware and with both minds connected so each is talking to the other in the dream.

 

The device would stimulate the brain to create a lucid dream. Then, the other part would then copy over the electric signals and put them into the mind of the second person who would be dreaming the same dream, they then can move around and be lucid and have that signal sent to the first person who would see the second doing the same thing. They even can talk to each other and interact.

 

It may be vague, but would it work?

If it would work, would it be able to be built?

 

You are asking, if I understand correctly, whether it is possible to insert or merge persons (specific or non) into the content of another person's dream amid dreaming given current technologies. The answer is no, it is currently not possible to insert non-sensory types of characters, imagery, or stimuli into dream content while a person is dreaming. I estimate that current technologies for that process will require another 50 years to develop. Currently, it is possible to insert basic sensory stimuli (such as light, sound, thermal, etc.) into dream content, which is proven every time a clock alarm or knock at our bedroom door becomes part of our dream when they occur in our sleep environment. Lucid dream researchers, like Stephen LaBerge, have developed and marketed technologies to induce lucid dreaming using a light source, which dreamers learn to recognize while dreaming as a sleep environment cue to begin lucidity. However, inserting stimuli into a dream is not the same as controlling dream content, which is not possible beyond the state of lucid dreaming and only possible by the dreamer while in that state. Although animal studies have yield some results in deciphering and mapping dream content, transferring that data to another animal would require a measure of understanding we don't possess about how brain function produces a mind. Essentially, overwriting dream content from an outside source is mind control requiring neural restructuring beyond our capabilities--in my opinion.

[withertdm]

Hopefully I'm around when the technology is developed, if it is.

[Delta1212]

As a hypothetical, yes, it should be physically possible to do.

 

No, we don't have the knowledge or technical capability to do it currently, and depending on how difficult it is, we may or may not ever be able to do it.

[DrmDoc]

Hopefully I'm around when the technology is developed, if it is.

 

The entire process is complicated by how to balance the metabolic function of sleep and dreaming with how the brain activates the specific web of subcortical and cortical circuitry associated with a target dream imagery and scenarios. Our brain becomes active amid sleep to serve a metabolic need and it is the effects of that activity that our brain synthesizes as dream content. What some people may not know is that dreaming initiates via subcortical projections or connections. Decerebrate animal studies have shown that no cortical activity occurs without some subcortical neural connection. Dreaming is a subcortical directive rather than a spontaneous cortical initiate. So, if we are going to develop some dream manipulating technology, we will need a better understanding of how our brain's subcortical neural connections mediate dream content.

Edited April 29, 2016 by DrmDoc

[Yvtq8k3n]

Quick answer:No is not possible.

 

I realy doubt that there will ever be an tecnologie that would allow to do that, but there is a thing that u can do to control other dreams.

If u turn on a ligh is possible that the dreamer person sees the sun when is sleeping.

However connecting the people in one dream is impossible, the only thing we may be able to do for now(in like 50 years whit luck) is to watch is dream but whitout interaction.