as everyone who is into the ganzfeld effect, a red light is necessary. I ventured into this project thinking a regular ammount of light, low light or no light would cause little if not any difference. Well, aside from the fact that I fell asleep most of the times, yes there was little to no variance.
Went online to troll the thousands of forums to see what I could dig up -and turns out a red light is extremely necessary. You see, the red light as viewed from the perspective of someone wearing half ping pong balls over one's eyes, activates the brain just enough to stay awake. The brain, thinking that it's about to get some sensory input, is perplexed when no input is received. So what does it do? the lil bugger decides to create its own show.
The brain, being addicted to stimulus, must absolutely positively create its own in order to keep with the status quo. Seeing the red light reminds the brain that activation is due - and this (according to everyone who raves about it on the innennets), is when the hallucination happens.
Seems fairly easy right? -WRONG! You might say 'YES! -if you're one of these anonymous internet users who claims that all is peachy. but for this insignificant amateur wanna-be hallucinatory scientist, this is not the case. My brain is so wired to receive stimulus, that while under the preferred settings, it craves and makes up its own thoughts. "hey what time is it" , "i think i want to go to the restroom", "i'll move my leg right... right now... k, now... NOW... ok i'll do it again" -it's non stop.
Usually, I end up going to sleep, but after having purchased the red light bulb from my local hardware store (which by the way has been diminishing in strength ever since day 1), i've had little to no success in having my dilated eyes do anything.
Will I try again tonight? hell yes! Has this worked? Hell no! Tell you what tho, what is of significant note worthiness, I've been slightly inclined to listen to static.
Doesn't that sound weird? It does, and I know it. I've been carrying around my mp3 player, putting it on local radio stations, then tuning off by a few stations so that there's only static coming through. That's what I listen during my lunch hour for a good 10-15 minutes. When i listen for about 5 minutes, I manage to calm my thoughts, when I listen for a good 15 minutes, m whole body reacts by getting me in a soothing mode. This is extremely helpful in an office setting when all you do is go go go.
More to come! (but still, listening to static? I'll note if anything develops in that department.)
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