Really.

Sorta. Not really.

In a crazy scientific breakthough, scientists at the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley are showing their new technology that successfully creates video footage of memory. From the Berkeley newsletter:

“Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie,” said Shinji Nishimoto, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in Gallant’s lab. “In order for this technology to have wide applicability, we must understand how the brain processes these dynamic visual experiences.”

“We built a model for each voxel that describes how shape and motion information in the movie is mapped into brain activity,” Nishimoto said.

The brain activity recorded while subjects viewed the first set of clips was fed into a computer program that learned, second by second, to associate visual patterns in the movie with the corresponding brain activity.

Though the tech is now limited to movies, eventually they hope to use it for dream reconstruction, memory access, and decoding visual images. You can read more details of the experiment here on the lab’s site.