okay, so. please bear with me on this one, i was thinking about this last night before i fell asleep. so i'm sure everyone would love to be able to "record" their dreams right? now this is entirely hypothetical since it would take an insane amount of time, and i might be misunderstanding this anyway, but hear me out.
basically couldn't we make up like, a "database" of brain activity, ie how the brain reacts to certain things, and use this to "translate" dreams? like, measure activity while people are dreaming and compare it to their individual database? so like, if their reaction to seeing a cat was x, or feeling scared was y, and so on, could this be used to "read" their dreams? obviously this would be insanely more complicated than that, and would take unbelievable amounts of time to record every possible reaction, but hypothetically could it work?
this sounds so much more retarded now than last night when i thought of it, but i figured i'd post it anyway.