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== Literature ==
* One old short sci-fi story featured an auditory equivalent, allowing two people with electrodes hooked up to their skulls to communicate thoughts directly. IIRC, one end was designed to receive, the other to send thoughts. Several basic tests were run to make sure the thing wasn't a fluke or a placebo leading to an additional receiver being installed for confirmations. The story ends with a bit of a twist when they try hooking one receiver end up to the sending end directly in a loop. The scientist on the other receiver looks terrified and rips them apart moments afterward. Apparently, he heard the machine itself [[
* A story titled "Into the Sunset" by D.C. Poyer had the religious dictatorship that'd taken over the U.S. build a machine that could detect people's thoughts, although no display was involved. If they [[Thoughtcrime|thought unauthorized things]], the machine would '''automatically''' punish them—with a power surge that wiped the brain completely, effectively killing the victim while leaving his or her body alive. Unauthorized things, of course, included wanting liberty and justice. Then the dictatorship installed the mind reader at all entrances to government buildings....
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'', "Vision Impossible": Raven's [[Clip Show]] er... I mean thoughts are projected onto a screen via a fancy machine.
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', John Henry, a T-888 Terminator hooked up to an advanced AI, has screens that project images related to what he's thinking about.
* There was an episode of ''[[Stingray (1985 TV series)|Stingray]]'' where King Titan interrogated Troy Tempest using such a machine, without Tempest knowing it.
* ''[[Quatermass and The Pit]]'' (TV and film versions) has a thought-visualising machine called an "optic encephalograph" that shows racial memories of Martian genocide.
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "A, B and C" involves a machine that can read Number 6's dreams and memories, but by the end of the story he is controlling the images.
* Done many times on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', most famously in the [[Narm
** Other notable examples include the first Doctor being interrogated, but because he's being flippant, the screen shows only random objects, and the second Doctor's trial in "The War Games", wherein he mounts his defense by using thought projection to show images of the great enemies he has fought, including the Cybermen, the Daleks, and... The Quarks. Since the Quarks were a one-off and markedly crap
** Another example occurs when the Second Doctor creates a mental projector with the scanner to explain to Zoey how traveling in the Tardis can be dangerous by showing her clips from "Evil of the Daleks".
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' "Out Of Mind" A machine is used to project holograms of SG-1's [[Clip Show]] memories. Like anything that shows up on Stargate, it makes reappearances in several subsequent episodes.
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** A bit of context: The patient was having [[Captain Obvious|unexplained]] seizures and out of body experiences. After running every diagnostic they can think off, they haul out a highly experimental "brain reader." They first show the patient a series of pictures, so the machine can analyse how her brain processes pictures. Then, when they ask her to think of one particular thing, they get a very fuzzy, very basic outline of her mental image. So, it's not exactly making a 3D hologram of her thoughts, but it seems plausible, maybe [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
** The best part was everybody's reaction to Foreman's reasonable skepticism:
{{quote|House: Anyone ever tell you you are a [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|MASSIVE buzzkill]]?
Everyone Else Present: YES. }}
* On ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'', Doctor Bellows tells Major Healey they'll be monitoring his dreams while he's in the shuttle (presumably in terms of brain activity), he assumes it's this trope, and advises not to construe anything from his more interesting dreams...
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[
== Webcomics ==
* [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF160-The_Dreamcatcher3000.gif This] ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' comic.
* The potential use of one that can turn the victim into a mindless shell of himself is a looming threat to the cast of [https://web.archive.org/web/20101116045308/http://omega_key.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=33 The Omega Key].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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