What type of science or technology would it take to record your dreams?

I don’t think that science yet has enough information about how and why dreams form, much less any way to connect to those electrons within the brain to record them.

It’s an interesting idea, and one that science fiction movies have played with for decades. But we don’t have enough understanding of the human brain yet.

IMHO, if it were just the synaptic connections, I think we might be farther along, but there is also the interpretation our mind (as opposed to our brain) makes when those synapses fire. I have no idea what the mind is or does, as opposed to the brain, but I think it is the mind that gives us our creativity, and our subjective interpretation of what that synaptic activity means.

Two movies deal with this: Brainstorm and Strange Days.
Any device that would do this would have to be able to intercept brainwave signals. This would be difficult to the point it seems impossible, which means we probably won’t see it for at least 10 years.

@filmfann I can see that.
10 years from now there will be an app for it on your phone and people will be downloading their dreams to “DreamScapes” or “BrainTube” or something (can I copyright thse names now?) and instead of cat videos, we will be wasting our time seeing what other people were dreaming and then re-posting them with all kinds of LOL’s and WTF’s.

Recording your experiences would go hand in hand with that. You’d have video experiences of “sex with Madonna”, crashing your car, and such. Porn will be off the hook!

I don’t think actual dreams are just audio/visual. They’re symbolic, which leads to us firing off our associations, including audio/visual/smell/emotions and stories and ideas and related associations.

They also happen at a different real-time rate than we think. I’ve had long dreams which seemed to go on for an hour or more, and then wake up and it’s only been a few minutes of real time.

The best I’ve done with technology is to use the Android Smart Voice Recorder (free/shareware) app, which records sounds above a certain volume level throughout the night. This allows me to just speak out loud to record my dreams, and to record anything that I might say in my sleep.

A recorder of some type, either tape or digital, and a volunteer to watch you as you sleep. When the REM sleep ends, the volunteer wakes you up and you recant your dream.

@kritiper

You meant “recount” (your dream) did you not?

Recant is something else altogether :)