Prolonged exposure to strobe lights has a psychedelic effect, which researchers are investigating as a way to heal the brain.
. “Seeing the responses of participants when they come out the other side of the curtain and they’ve just had this experience was so rare and magical,” Seth says. “We’re really making something that is internal and transcendental and personal into a collective experience.”
One of the aims of the Dreamachine project is to shine a light on something that Seth has investigated for more than a decade: the effect of stroboscopic lights on the brain. “It’s a phenomenon that’s still not understood,” he says. “The flickering light gives rise to really unexpected and powerful perceptual effects and conscious experiences that are kind of unrelated to what’s out there. It’s just white light yet people see colors and shapes.
What also fascinates Seth is that participants reported very different experiences even though they were immersed in the same environment. “Of course, this is not only true in the Dreamachine,” he says. “One of the lessons is that everywhere, all at once, all the time, we’re all having a different experience, even when we share the same objective reality.“
To further map out that inner perceptual diversity, Seth and his team have also started a project called the Perception Census, an online survey that aims to measure how different people perceive different dimensions like sound, time, color, and even expectations. “The idea is to understand the latent space,” he says. “The underlying organizational structure by which we all vary on the inside because it’s so hard to see.
In spite of that diversity, participants in the Dreamachine do overwhelmingly report experiencing one emotion in common: peace. This finding might show that in the near future, the Dreamachine could also lead to new forms of mental health therapy. “There’s a long history of light-based treatment for things like depression and grief, whether it’s treating seasonal affective disorder or other forms of depression,” Seth says.
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