Yes, that was Kate Beckinsale you saw in my dream, but we were only playing Parcheesi, I swear.

Apparently, Japanese scientists from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (obviously) have created a technology which allows them to reconstruct various images directly from the human brain. At this point, the images are very rudimentary (the letters in the word “neuron,” for example), but the scientists expect that this technology will eventually allow them to view other people’s dreams and other hidden thoughts.

Obviously, this is frightening news for any of you who would prefer to shield the darkest parts of your mind from the rest of the world. For bastions of purity such as myself, this is welcome news, as we are also very, very nosy.

But the real worry, of course, is that if watching other people’s dreams is as excruciatingly boring as listening to other people tell you about their dreams, then this will turn out to be the least interesting discovery in the history of the world.