Data Recovery of Dreams – Science of Inception’s Fiction

I loved Christopher Nolan's newest film, Inception. In a summer that has been very weak for movies, this film salvaged the season for me. Judging by its $200M+ (and going) box office and its [current] 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I am not alone in this belief.

I am not going to bother to rehash the plot in this article - I couldn't begin to describe it in this space anyways. What I do want to focus on is one aspect of the science fiction aspect of the movie. The aspect I am referring to is the data recall of dreams. In the movie, each individual comes out of the dream state with a full memory of what occurred in the dream. This is true to the extent that they often cannot tell dream from reality.

Now, I also don't think I am alone in the fact that I rarely remember my dreams. When I do, it is just little snippets here and there. My mind's ability (or desire) to recover the data of my fictitious nocturnal adventures has never been particularly strong, but I don't think that's unusual either. Some people equate that lack of memory to a belief that they just don't dream. However, that is very unlikely. REM sleep (the state at which dreaming occurs) is pretty standard for almost everybody. That being the case, it becomes an issue of memory instead of occurrence.

Obviously the ability to (directly) affect another person's dream is extreme science fiction, but to me - I wonder if we will ever be able to "record" our nightly adventures. What I remember of my dreams is such nonsense that it would likely be just a bunch of jibberish plopped together in an incoherent pile, but I would still be interested just the same.

- EW
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