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Also the Dreammachine isn't a TOPY specialty. The version which we know today (clynidrical cardboard/paper tube with holes cut out of it at specific intervals which sits on a turntable/gramophone spinning at 78 rpm) was invented by Ian Sommerville, friend of Brion Gyson. Brion Gyson first experienced the, to use a cheesy term, "magic of the flicker" during a bus ride, going to Marseilles, during December 21st, 1958. The bus was passing an avenue of trees and the sun was setting. Brion closed his eyes when suudenly (and I quote): "An overwhelming flood of intensely bright patterns in supernatural colours exploded behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was out in the world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?"
Then good old William Burroughs, in 1960, handed Brion a book by Grey Walter called "The Living Brain." The book, to simplify the subject, deals with rhythm's effect on the brain.
A great book on all this is called "Flickers of the Dreamachine". It's edited by Paul Cecil. The book's ISBN number is 1 899598 03 0.
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