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{{trope}}
{{quote|''" Turn off the screen and let me project my thoughts!"''|Mike Nelson imitating a Local Yokel, [[
{{quote|''" He's thrashing around while he's having his dream, and his dream can be seen on the monitor screen!"''|MC Mothmaster Murf "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnMF7dV86k Amazing Robocop Rap]"}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* ''Futureworld'' (sequel to ''[[Westworld]]'') had a machine that showed the thoughts and dreams the female protagonist was having.
* Lewis's Memory Scanner in ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'': When the Captain wants to see what happened during EVE's expedition, he sticks a miniature projector on her head and watches the playback. Justified, since she is a robot.
* The chair that can monitor [[
* [[Mom and Dad Save The World]]
* The Memory Eraser from ''[[Flash Gordon (
== Literature ==
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** 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 villain -- and not even the proper enemies in that episode anyway (they were just service robots working for the Dominators), it has become something of a running joke in the [[Expanded Universe]] that the second Doctor has a weird and inexplicable Quark obsession.
** 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
* ''[[
** Again in "Back In The Red" when a machine is used to probe the crew's minds to obtain evidence in their hearing.
* ''[[
* One episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' had one of these. I kid you not.
** At least everyone else in the episode had a realistic level of skepticism. It's like only House realizes it's a TV show.
** 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]].
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{{quote| House: Anyone ever tell you you are a [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|MASSIVE buzzkill]]?<br />
Everyone Else Present: YES. }}
* On ''[[I
* Used in ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' to facilitate a [[Recap Episode]] / [[Clip Show]]. Handwaved in that the guy whose mind they're scanning is {{spoiler|a robot - they're just accessing his recorded video files}}.
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** In the [[The Nineties|early 90s]] tie-in book "Bart Simpson's Guide To Life", Bart's dream bedroom includes a Video Dream Recorder.
* In ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'', the Gromble uses one of these to view his students' scares and grade them. The projection is done through the student's eyes, even if they're away.
* ''[[Batman:
** It sort of helped matters that he got Bruce to all but say "I'm Batman" in a therapy session, while the monitor showed a black-gloved fist clenched over the [[Bat Signal]].
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' "Star Smasher", Zurg uses a "Mind Probe" is retrieve plans for a trash compacter from the mind of one of the kidnapped LGMs. The plans appear on a computer monitor.
* An audio version is used on [[
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