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Yeah, there's serious study on this. Like, my dad did the Ganzfeld experiment back in the 80s with the ping pong balls over the eyes with red LED's in them... T

Yeah, there's serious study on this. Like, my dad did the Ganzfeld experiment back in the 80s with the ping pong balls over the eyes with red LED's in them... There's even serious scientific study on it [1] looking into the differences of the effect between people with mental imagery vs aphantasia. Here's another study which looks at fMRI scans of people with the goggles on [2]. This Vice commercial-for-an-app-as-an-article doesn't even touch on any of that, which is pretty weak even by the journalistic standards of this publication. I'm sure I've seen older Vice articles that weren't just an ad for an app which delved into this more seriously. I've tried both white and red light myself and found the red light you linked to be a LOT more evocative. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34172274/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34172274/ [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75019-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75019-3

mgdlbp 4y ago
Tbf OP does link to research of its own[3] by a team with "a relationship" to the app. [1] is actually what last year's submission is based on. Following the references, there's quite a number of papers on flicker-induced entoptic phenomena. [3] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/511766v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/511766v1.full
- jamal-kumar 4y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. It's really cool, have you tried it before? I seemed to get imagery of animal-like faces, like morphing between intricate and defined portraits of owls and wolves from what I recall, like what you might see on one of those tshirts. It seems like it might be great for coming up with interesting illustrations, or other creative process stuff as mentioned in the article (I'll give it credit at least for mentioning Margaret Atwood and her liking it as a tool for these reasons as I'm a big fan of her work)

mgdlbp 4y ago

Tbf OP does link to research of its own[3] by a team with "a relationship" to the app. [1] is actually what last year's submission is based on. Following the references, there's quite a number of papers on flicker-induced entoptic phenomena. [3] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/511766v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/511766v1.full

jamal-kumar 4y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. It's really cool, have you tried it before? I seemed to get imagery of animal-like faces, like morphing between intricate and defined portraits of owls and wolves from what I recall, like what you might see on one of those tshirts. It seems like it might be great for coming up with interesting illustrations, or other creative process stuff as mentioned in the article (I'll give it credit at least for mentioning Margaret Atwood and her liking it as a tool for these reasons as I'm a big fan of her work)