implications

When used properly, the Dreamachine may alter brainwave frequencies. This allows a unique form of lucid dreaming, or taking control of whatever happens in your dreams. Participants report different visual stimuli. Some see varying black and white images, while others see in full color. Swirling fractal patterns or detailed virtual reality-like scenes are often reported. Another often-reported affect is automatic meditation. Entering a meditative state has a calming effect on anxiety, similiar to a medical prescription, only non-evasive. Dreamachines produce Alpha-wave biofeedback, considered a consciousness self-regulation technique. By visualizing physiological information, of which we are normally unaware, bodily processes once thought involuntary such as blood pressure, respitory rate and temperature may be regulated. Dreamachine like effects are described by Xth century Iranian writer Najmodidin Kobra: "The vision of luminous photisms is associated to the development of subtil organism, the resurrection body." By learning control of electrical impulses, it follows that neural signals could one day control computers. Thus, by thinking a command the computer automaticly responds. Thought recognition would be the ultimate computer interface, the machine acting as an extension of the human nervous system itself.