Future Brain scanning tech lead to "DreamTube"?

[f1]

People around the world are doing all sorts of scanning techniques and experiments.

At some point I imagine we will be able to view each others dreams via virtual reality, such as the "Oculus Rift"

What would be the implications of us sharing our DMT experiences?

Would you upload to "Dreamtube"?

 

[shanedudddy2]

Nah, i`ll probably just do the same as I do on youtube, and download lolcats.
I had a dream once of a society which valued memories and sensory recordings as the true value of currency.
This is not far off, downloading an infinite orgasm that can just be played would be kind of interesting, but opens up philosophical can of worms.
Essentially, my dream ended in the real world being turned into rubbish, by addicts addicted to living their lives as nothing more than the replay of previously recorded experiences and feelings.

 

[SKA]

Actually I remember some Japanese scientists developped a system about 2 years ago that would record
brainactivity with electrodes and transform them into visual imagery on a screen. It was very crude,
but it was able to depict images people were seeing and even those they were Imagining.


I imagine this system, if it becomes more sophisticated & updated, could very well record our dreams
so we could watch them back when we awake the next morning. Too bad it'll be such a hassle sleeping
with a head full of electrodes stuck to it.

 

[f1]

Too bad it'll be such a hassle sleeping
with a head full of electrodes stuck to it.

Good thinking SKA, needs to be wireless

Also Standford has been developing this tech.

There are all sorts of people who can't handle the radical brain chemistry shift for a variety of reasons, could we humans create digital experiences that offer a similar "cosmic" experience that has helped so many?

somewhat the digitize DMT experience (Probably a stupid question...)

 

[Global]

Good thinking SKA, needs to be wireless

Also Standford has been developing this tech.

There are all sorts of people who can't handle the radical brain chemistry shift for a variety of reasons, could we humans create digital experiences that offer a similar "cosmic" experience that has helped so many?

somewhat the digitize DMT experience (Probably a stupid question...)

I don't think it's a stupid question. Here's the thing the way I look at it however. To some degree it would be rather satisfactory to be able to share some of the stunning visions and colors, details and mechanics of those dimensions that others either may refuse to access, not have access to, or simply even when some people smoke DMT, they don't see the same thing, and it would be nice to cross-reference and share. On the other hand DMT is a completely inter-modal experience. I suppose to some extent it's vaguely like the difference between watching a video of a roller coaster ride from the perspective of a passenger, as opposed to actually being the passenger in that very moment. All sorts of g-forces affecting the body, physically pushing and pulling the body, and the amount of adrenaline released along with the wind in your hair and all that good stuff all add up to an experience that simply can't be well-translated via visual data only - especially to a person who has no direct experience with roller coasters.

DMT of course kind of takes it a step further because now all of your senses (and then a couple you didn't know you had) are not necessarily distinct but can be synesthetically intertwined, and a full or even partial OBE would not translate well onto a visually exclusive medium. When there is nothing left between you and the imagery - not a computer monitor; not any distance; not even a body, there is really no way to capture that with just a picture or video. This is of course all to not even mention the absence of the incredible euphoria and energetic interactions that occur. Don't get me wrong, I would want to share my visions in a heart beat, even if they were "incomplete" with only visual data (or even video/audio) so I could share my beautiful multidimensional Egyptian visions with the world, but I think it's important to mind the limitations of even refined forms of such technology to show non-crude images.

 

[aleph 1ne]

On the other hand DMT is a completely inter-modal experience. I suppose to some extent it's vaguely like the difference between watching a video of a roller coaster ride from the perspective of a passenger, as opposed to actually being the passenger in that very moment. All sorts of g-forces affecting the body, physically pushing and pulling the body, and the amount of adrenaline released along with the wind in your hair and all that good stuff all add up to an experience that simply can't be well-translated via visual data only - especially to a person who has no direct experience with roller coasters.

I completely agree. I do feel like this technology could do wonders for mapping hyperspace to some extent though, or at least for giving people signposts. I have written some trip reports and had others comment on seeing the same things, places and entities in the past. How astonishing would it be to compare our images and see if we indeed did go to the same place, or if it was entirely different, but the same words were used to describe it.. even if this was all the technology could do, it would be more than worth it IMO.