the team then used the brain activity recorded by the mri .
the reconstructed videos are blurry because they layer all the youtube clips that matched the subject 's brain activity pattern .
scientists have long been able to reconstruct static photos and images from reading brain patterns , but this is believed to be a first for reading a dynamic visual experience .
the researchers say the technology could one day be used to broadcast imagery -- the scenes
if you thought the new facebook was invasive , computer scientists are now one step closer to reading our minds .
what emerged was like a surrealist painting : a blurry , dream - like interpretation of reality ( see video below ) .
during the first set , recorded brain activity was fed into a computer to program a " movie reconstruction algorithm , " which matched neural activity to what was taking place in the video .