 homemade version semi-off The Dreamachine (or Dream Machine) was invented by Beat generation members Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville in 1959. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2153x2870, 3711 KB) Summary A picture of a dreamachine, not spinning, lit internally, room lights off, no flash. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2153x2870, 3711 KB) Summary A picture of a dreamachine, not spinning, lit internally, room lights off, no flash. ...
The term Beat Generation refers primarily to a group of American writers of the 1950s. ...
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In its original form, the Dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 RPM or 45 RPM. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency, situated between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing. Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ...
Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp or, in special cases, on the cortex. ...
Oscillation is the periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. ...
There is also an album by Blur called Leisure. ...
The Dreamachine is "viewed" with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain's electrical oscillations. The "viewer" experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids. The patterns become shapes and symbols, swirling around, until the "viewer" feels surrounded by colors. It is claimed that viewing a Dreamachine allows one to enter the state of lucid dreaming.[citation needed] This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open one's eyes. The optic nerve is the nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain. ...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Lucid Dreaming A girl sleeping, before reaching REM sleep. ...
It should be noted that the Dreamachine may be dangerous for people with photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. It is thought that one out of 10,000 adults will experience a seizure while viewing the device; about twice as many children will have a similar ill effect.[citation needed] Also, others report that viewing a Dreamachine can become addictive, and moderation is encouraged when using the device. [citation needed] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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This article should be merged with Super Nintendo Entertainment System The Super Famicom design differed from that of the American SNES, though the controllers are almost the same. ...
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Super Mario Epic 2: Dream Machine is a fangame by Jeff Silvers Software based on the Super Mario series by Nintendo. ...
Frederick Roland Emett (22 October 1906 - 13 November 1990 ) , sometimes known variously as Roland/Rowland Emett/Emmett, was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture. ...
Images Brion Gysin Dreamachine Image File history File links Download high resolution version (813x1190, 273 KB) Summary I commissioned and own this photo, and have never had it copyrighted. ...
| homemade version off.. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1772x2978, 3149 KB) Summary A dreamachine, not spinning, with flash. ...
| ...and on again Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1950x2575, 3022 KB) Summary A dreamachine, spinning, lit internally, room lights off, no flash. ...
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See also William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ...
Stephen LaBerge is a psychophysiologist and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. ...
Jan Evangelista Purkyně (also written Johannes Evangelists Purkinje, listen?) (1787 - 1869) was a Czech anatomist, patriot, and physiologist. ...
Books - Headpress 25: Burroughs And The Dreamachine Edited by David Kerekes (2003) ISBN: 1900486261
- Flickers Of The Dreamachine by Paul Cecil (2000) ISBN 1899598030 Download page
- The Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine[sic] by John Geiger (2003) ISBN 1932360018
- Re-Search: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle by V. Vale (Editor) (1982) ISBN 0940642050
- Dreamachine Plans by Brion Gysin (1994) ISBN 1871744504
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