Recently, an old grad school friend told me about amazing advances at her neuroscience lab. Building on the groundbreaking work of a brilliant team in Kyoto, Beata Siatkówka and her colleagues are perfecting somnography. The process has been documented in “Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep” available in the journal Science. There you can even see videos of somnography in action! We can now not only broadly identify what a person is dreaming about, but reproduce what they are “seeing” in their sleeping mind with astonishing accuracy and precision. We can photograph dreams! Below are some of the scenes I’ve captured from my own sleeping mind. I’ve included a bedtime story vignette I wrote to go with each. I hope these images and stories will help you find your way to the Green World on nights when sleep is elusive. Artistically yours, Loring Colvin More info: Instagram Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.

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