Mental Picture Projector: Difference between revisions

 

A cousin trope of [[Magical Security Cam]]. Compare [[Mind Probe]], where this technology is explicitly used for torture.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In [[Mahou Sensei Negima]], Jack Rakan has a machine that turns his memories into a film reel, so that he can go through the [[Backstory]] without having to explain everything himself.

** 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:

Everyone Else Present: YES. }}

* On ''[[I Dreamof 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...