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Quick Start
- Click the "Strobe" button below. The entire screen will just strobe one color.
- Close your eyes and either lay with your phone over them, or in a VR headset and trance out.
- In time the flashing light will change your brainwaves and make you see things.
- Click the small "X" button to end the effect.
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Table of Contents
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The Trinary Approach
Transparency
This just flashes the screen at a set rate.
Use at your own risk, results may vary.
Authenticity
The original Dreamachine was a mechanical device that spun a shade in front of a light bulb.
The rate that it would flash was known however, and documented, which is where I set the default starting rate of this tool.
Depending on limitations of your monitor/phone/device/browser, there are rates that it will not actually be able to flash at due to the refresh rate of the screen.
Privacy
Per our Privacy Policy, we're not storing what you enter here.
I attempt to detect the refresh rate of your device and set that as the maximum that the [Speed] can be raised. This is not reading anything from your computer, the page simply tries to do something and then records how fast it can do it, to determine the speed of your display. It is not accessing your device to read specs, the page is just watching it's own performance.
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Methods & Options
- Strobe
- This turns the whole screen to a strobe light, aside from one X button to stop it.
- X
- X is the button to stop the strobe, it appears in the top left corner.
- Speed and Color
- The speed and color of the strobe effect.
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Background & Practice
The Dreamachine was developed by Brion Gysin (1916-1986) to enter a hypnagogic waking dream state. It uses flashes of light as visual stimulation between 8Hz and 13Hz to change your brainwaves.
The original Dreamachine was inspired by Gysin hallucinating to the sun flickering behind the trees as he traveled past. It was made up of a cylinder with slits that would rotate around a light bulb to create a flicker.
This is similar to the technique used by both Nostradamus and Jan Purkinje ( the father of contemporary neuroscience) to receive hallucinatory visions, by closing the eyes and moving their fingers before the eyelids to interrupt the light source and create a flicker.
Have fun! You can lay back and place your phone over your eyelids, or use a VR headset if you have one (about $5).
We must storm the citadels of enlightenment, the means are at hand.
-William S. Burroughs to Brion Gysin
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Complete Guide: Dreamachine
- Basics
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- Click the "Strobe" button below. The entire screen will just strobe one color.
- Close your eyes and either lay with your phone over them, or in a VR headset and trance out.
- In time the flashing light will change your brainwaves and make you see things.
- Click the small "X" button to end the effect.
- Strobe
- Switches the screen to a strobing effect.
- X
- Ends the strobing effect.
- [Only available when strobing]
- Speed (Hz)
- Adjusts the frequency of the strobing effect.
- [Limited by your device refresh rate]
- Color
- Changes the color of the strobing effect.
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