“Vision start with a kaleidoscope of colors on a plane in front of the eyes and gradually become more complex and beautiful, looking like the surf on the shore until whole patterns of color are pounding to get in. After a while the visions were permanently behind my eyes and I was in the middle of the whole scene with limitless patterns generated around me. ”
Utilized the Dreamachine during the conception and production of the album Diamond Dogs known for the hit song: “ Rebel Rebel.”
Paul was fascinated with cutting up radio broadcasts and animal sounds and adding sound collages throughout Sgt. Pepper. This curiosity led him to play with various words and experiment with the Dreamachine while he was working on Eleanor Rigby.
These ‘fancies’ have in them a pleasurable ecstasy, as far beyond the most pleasurable of the world of wakefulness, or of dreams, as the Heaven of the Northman theology is beyond its Hell. I regard the visions, even as they arise, with an awe which, in some measure, moderates or tranquilizes the ecstasy.
“I looked into it – it sets up optical fields as religious and mandalic as the hallucinogenic drugs – it’s like being able to have jeweled Biblical designs and landscapes without taking chemicals.”
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones were fascinated by the trance music made by the Jajoukas in Morocco. Jones and the Rolling Stones frequented the Brion Gysin’s flat and experimented with the Dreamachine.
John Zorn’s music utilizes aspects of non-musical art forms. He often incorporates non-linear narratives, esoteric techniques and titled a recent album 'Dreamachines'. This album pays homage to the original invention.
Flicker proved to be a key to many doors. We used it for us as a clinical aid in the diagnosis of epilepsy, from the very first it's revelations were fundamental both clinic in laboratory.
The French visionary Nostradamus used flickering light to induce his psychic powers. There are legends that describe Nostradamus sat inside a tower gazing directly into the sun and simultaneously moved his fingers quickly over his eyelids.
"Flicker proved to be a key to many doors...the sense of having been pushed sideways in time by flicker. Yesterday was no longer behind, and tomorrow was no longer ahead."
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Subjects report dazzling lights and unearthly brilliance and color... Elaborate geometric constructions of incredible intricacy build up from multidimensional mosaic into living fireballs like the mandalas of Eastern Mysticism or resolve momentarily into apparently individual images and powerfully dramatic scenes like brightly colored dreams.
Utilized the Dreamachine during the conception and production of the album Diamond Dogs known for the hit song: “ Rebel Rebel.”
Use a device similar to the dreamachine to reduce stress and amplify the clarity of his dreams. He states, ““I dreamed about German shepherds … eating flowers and smoking potpourri….it’s really amazing, it really works.”
Lights like comets dangled before me, slow at first and then gaining a fury of speed and change, whirling colour into colour, angle into angle. They were all pure ultra unearthly colours, mental colours, not deep visual ones. There was no glow in them but only activity and revolution
“Vision start with a kaleidoscope of colors on a plane in front of the eyes and gradually become more complex and beautiful, looking like the surf on the shore until whole patterns of color are pounding to get in. After a while the visions were permanently behind my eyes and I was in the middle of the whole scene with limitless patterns generated around me. ”
"...an arrangement of electrical impulses interpretable as a living, self-modulating Japanese landscape unlike anything the subject has ever seen, suffused with preternatural light and color and charged with preternatural significance. The patterns become shapes and symbols…swirling around, until the user feels surrounded by colors.
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
"I stand in the bright sunlight with closed eyes and face the sun. Then I move my outstretched, somewhat separated, fingers up and down in front of the eyes, so that they are alternately illuminated and shaded. In addition to the uniform yellow-red that one expects with closed eyes, there appear beautiful regular figures that are initially difficult to define slowly become clearer."
"The most sophisticated neurophenomenological device ever designed."
