Whoooo....Fucking stellar.... !
Better than I could have ever hoped, someone checking out my obtuse mental ejecta. Not just riff-raff, mind you- the exquisite Kera- has visited. And I shall do my damnedest to sate the curiosity of my newest, bestest friend.... So to continue about my recent odd experience(s)....
A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at a clandestine research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head - either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.
I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off.
The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation - essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance.
I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced - mistakenly - that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.
It's a mesmerizing sensation similar to being drunk or melting into sleep under the influence of anesthesia. But it's more definitive, as though an invisible hand were reaching inside your brain.
I watched a simple racing-car game demonstration on a large screen while wearing a device programmed to synchronize the curves with galvanic vestibular stimulation. It accentuated the swaying as an imaginary racing car zipped through a virtual course, making me wobbly and disoriented.
Another program had the electric current timed to music. My head was pulsating against my will, getting jerked around on my neck. I became so dizzy I could barely stand. I had to turn the fucker off. My mad scientist hosts suggested this may be a reflection of my lack of musical abilities. People in tune with freely expressing themselves love the sensation, they said. I had to disagree, stating that although I did not posess a facility in creating music, self-expression is not a quality I have in short supply. Anyway...
"We call this a virtual dance experience although some people have mentioned it's more like a virtual drug experience," was some of the commentary provided by a senior research scientist at the lab. Evidently, research on using electricity to affect human balance has been going on around the world for some time.
The most sought after application for this technology would probably be a nonlethal weapon that presumably would make your opponent dizzy/ and or nauseous. If you find just the right frequency, energy, duration of application, you would hope to find something that doesn't permanently injure someone but would allow you to make someone temporarily off-balance.
From my experience, this device and the effects, provided the illusion that I was some sort of deranged, stringed puppet.
I didn't like that sensation. At all.
Very cool and bizarre, but not something I would suggest for the random individual.
K- I hope this was of interest. xxooxxo -M-
Better than I could have ever hoped, someone checking out my obtuse mental ejecta. Not just riff-raff, mind you- the exquisite Kera- has visited. And I shall do my damnedest to sate the curiosity of my newest, bestest friend.... So to continue about my recent odd experience(s)....
A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at a clandestine research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head - either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.
I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off.
The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation - essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance.
I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced - mistakenly - that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.
It's a mesmerizing sensation similar to being drunk or melting into sleep under the influence of anesthesia. But it's more definitive, as though an invisible hand were reaching inside your brain.
I watched a simple racing-car game demonstration on a large screen while wearing a device programmed to synchronize the curves with galvanic vestibular stimulation. It accentuated the swaying as an imaginary racing car zipped through a virtual course, making me wobbly and disoriented.
Another program had the electric current timed to music. My head was pulsating against my will, getting jerked around on my neck. I became so dizzy I could barely stand. I had to turn the fucker off. My mad scientist hosts suggested this may be a reflection of my lack of musical abilities. People in tune with freely expressing themselves love the sensation, they said. I had to disagree, stating that although I did not posess a facility in creating music, self-expression is not a quality I have in short supply. Anyway...
"We call this a virtual dance experience although some people have mentioned it's more like a virtual drug experience," was some of the commentary provided by a senior research scientist at the lab. Evidently, research on using electricity to affect human balance has been going on around the world for some time.
The most sought after application for this technology would probably be a nonlethal weapon that presumably would make your opponent dizzy/ and or nauseous. If you find just the right frequency, energy, duration of application, you would hope to find something that doesn't permanently injure someone but would allow you to make someone temporarily off-balance.
From my experience, this device and the effects, provided the illusion that I was some sort of deranged, stringed puppet.
I didn't like that sensation. At all.
Very cool and bizarre, but not something I would suggest for the random individual.
K- I hope this was of interest. xxooxxo -M-
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syndel:
sorry, I tried to understand what you've said about my set... but I couldn't understand it 
kera:
really? distraction? i think it's so much more than that - it has to be. it helps us understand the world, and our place in it, shows us things we might not see normally....it has to be more than distraction....doesn't it?