Fun tangent. The 1981 film Looker, written and directed by Michael Crichton, features a trope: the Looker gun, which induces a trance in its targets via flashe

Fun tangent. The 1981 film Looker, written and directed by Michael Crichton, features a trope: the Looker gun, which induces a trance in its targets via flashes of light, such that they are unaware of the passage of many hours of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker