LONDON was swinging and even New 杏吧原创 occasionally delved into affairs as far out as an early Pink Floyd concert. In our 6 January 1966 issue, we reported on 鈥渁n abstract motion picture projector called Box 3鈥�. It was created by artist John Healey and was being used in hospitals for its 鈥減sychological effects鈥�. Apparently the box could 鈥渟timulate or soothe, beguile or inspire鈥� using a non-repetitive, symmetrical, curving coloured pattern. It was proving particularly popular in the maternity ward of University College Hospital, London, where it induced 鈥渁 state of quiet contentment鈥� in expectant mothers. Well, it was 1966, but presumably even Timothy Leary, enthusiastic promoter of LSD, hadn鈥檛 expected maternity wards to be listening when he uttered his 鈥淭urn on, tune in, drop out鈥� exhortation later that year.
There was another issue when we reviewed a book called Hallucinations. Although it mainly considered hallucinations prompted by psychiatric problems or neurophysiological issues, it also gave due regard to the perceptions of the drug-addled mind. Enthusiasts of psychedelia would particularly enjoy the illustration of 鈥渁ssociative changes claimed for complex images induced by tetrahydrocannabinol鈥�.
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In our 6 January 1990 issue, we bust open still more doors of perception. Some people who experienced 鈥渓ucid dreams鈥� were helping researchers discover more about sleeping brains. Lucid dreaming, we explained, is the state of being asleep but aware you are dreaming. Some dreamers were so adept that they could count to 10 within their dream while signalling to the (awake) researchers the start and end of the count. We also suggested that such dreams might link to the Box 3-style fruitloopery of the 1960s in the form of an out-of-this-world prog rock staple. Alleged UFO abductions, we speculated, might be the result of lucid dreaming.
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