Dream Machine

[beavis]

"You all know of the 'Dream Machine' as developed by Brion Gysin"

No I dont. Please describe it.

[ronaldo]

dream machine??? explain more, is it like the nova dreamer??? lol i had a nova dreamer but me daft mother put it in the washing machine

[marhar]

Hi guys, it's a device that promotes creativity, using a light bulb, a cardboard tube with holes cut into it, and a record deck that can play at 78rpm. Basically it produces a stroboscopic effect that when 'played' onto the closed eye gives beautiful, golden, everchanging kalaidescopic patterns, that eventually form into whatever your mind chooses to create, rather like taking acid, but without the paranoia. In that respect you eventually 'see' what you need to see, depending what questions you are asking yourself, it's quite amazing!
There are plenty of links out there, here are a couple-
http://www.txt.de/spress/author/gysin/dream/english.htm
http://novatrilogy.tripod.com/dreamachine.htm
http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/dreamachine/dreamachine.html

Nothing like the 'Nova', although I am intrigued by this machine, I've had one lucid dream in my life, but as soon as I realised, I woke up. Does this machine work, it's bloody expensive! [:O]
Cheers guys, Marcus.

[mlevinson]

I have one of those masks, marhar, at least I think I still have it. More than likely I got it from Tools for Exploration which you can find on the web.

Frankly, it wasn't worth the few bucks it cost except as a novelty item. The beta-effort to keep the damn thing spinning more than outweighed any alpha-chill the flicker provided. A simply made dream machine is even lower rent and far more effective and cheap electronic flicker devices are easy to come by.

If I can easily find it, maybe I could get it to you if you really want it.

[holy reality]

http://www.txt.de/spress/author/gysin/dream/english.htm

this sounds way too hard for me to make.....

no one sells anything like that?

[marhar]

I don't know if this is a discussion/question for the OBE, but here goes- You all know of the 'Dream Machine' as developed by Brion Gysin and used by such luminaries as Bill Burroughs? Well I have been on the sites with the plans to make your own, i've downloaded them; but I seem to remember at a festival I went to there were these guys selling a great product that functioned on the same principle, whereby one held a kind of mask over ones face, and blew into a tube, point it into the sun, with your eyes closed. This caused a disk to spin, and the geometric patterns to form on the eyelids.
I have been searching for one of these for years, because I did'nt have enough money to buy one at the time, and I have never, ever, seen anything like it again [] It was great cos' you could carry it anywhere with you, a portable dream machine!
Anyways, I was wondering if there was any of you lot out there, who knows where I could find the genius who made this machine?
It would make me vvvv.happy [] I would make it my Christmas present to myself.
Cheers guys, Marcus.