P3D Re Saturday Night special

[Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may be possible to determine if people dream in stereo because there is
already a device used to determine how people scan images presented to
them. It uses light reflected from the eye and can even measure the
response to the imagery by the degree of dillation of the pupil. I am not
shure if this has been aplied stereoscopicaly but it could  be done either
with stereo image pairs or real scenes. It is believed that dream images
are scanned in the same way and that this is the reason for the rapid eye
movement R.E.M during dreaming  and is used as the indication of when
dreaming is taking place during sleep.
 There would be a few problems tracking the eyes of a sleeping person as
they would normaly be closed and shining visible light into them is likely
to wake them. Perhaps infra-red light could be used shining through the eye
lids in the same way that it can be shone through the ear or a finger in
order to measure the pulse. Then reflected back through the eye lids in the
same way that it can be reflected back off the pulse in the finger. Yet
remaining invisible to the sleeper. My own personal feeling is that I do
dream in stereo and have become more aware of this since becoming
interested in the subject. In one example I was watching some sort of
stereo film which did not seem to require any special glasses . Objects
were coming off the screen into the theatre and there was a definite sense
of depth compared to them and the screen itself.  P.J.Homer



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