LONDON was swinging and even New Scientist occasionally delved into affairs as far out as an early Pink Floyd concert. In our 6 January 1966 issue, we reported on “an abstract motion picture projector called Box 3”. It was created by artist John Healey and was being used in hospitals for its “psychological effects”. Apparently the box could “stimulate or soothe, beguile or inspire” using a non-repetitive, symmetrical, curving coloured pattern. It was proving particularly popular in the maternity ward of University College Hospital, London, where it induced “a state of quiet contentment” in expectant mothers. Well, it was 1966, but presumably even Timothy Leary, enthusiastic promoter of LSD, hadn’t expected maternity wards to be listening when he uttered his “Turn on, tune in, drop out” exhortation later that year.
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Although it mainly considered hallucinations prompted by psychiatric problems or neurophysiological issues, it also gave due regard to the perceptions of the drug-addled mind. Enthusiasts of psychedelia would particularly enjoy the illustration of “associative changes claimed for complex images induced by tetrahydrocannabinol”.
In our 6 January 1990 issue, we bust open still more doors of perception. Some people who experienced “lucid dreams” were helping researchers discover more about sleeping brains. Lucid dreaming, we explained, is the state of being asleep but aware you are dreaming. Some dreamers were so adept that they could count to 10 within their dream while signalling to the (awake) researchers the start and end of the count. We also suggested that such dreams might link to the Box 3-style fruitloopery of the 1960s in the form of an out-of-this-world prog rock staple. Alleged UFO abductions, we speculated, might be the result of lucid
Although it mainly considered hallucinations prompted by psychiatric problems or neurophysiological issues, it also gave due regard to the perceptions of the drug-addled mind. Enthusiasts of psychedelia would particularly enjoy the illustration of “associative changes claimed for complex images induced by tetrahydrocannabinol”.
In our 6 January 1990 issue, we bust open still more doors of perception. Some people who experienced “lucid dreams” were helping researchers discover more about sleeping brains. Lucid dreaming, we explained, is the state of being asleep but aware you are dreaming. Some dreamers were so adept that they could count to 10 within their dream while signalling to the (awake) researchers the start and end of the count. We also suggested that such dreams might link to the Box 3-style fruitloopery of the 1960s in the form of an out-of-this-world prog rock staple. Alleged UFO abductions, we speculated, might be the result of lucid