布里翁·吉辛(Brion Gysin)高清作品《Dreammachine（与Ian Sommerville合作）》

作品名：Dreammachine（与Ian Sommerville合作）

艺术家：布里翁·吉辛

年代：1962

风格：新达达艺术

类型：装置

梦想家（或梦机器）是一种产生视觉刺激的频闪闪烁装置。艺术家布莱恩·吉辛和威廉·S·巴勒斯的“系统顾问”伊恩·萨默维尔在读了威廉·格雷·沃尔特的《活着的大脑》一书后创造了这个梦机器。在最初的形式中，梦想家是由一个圆柱体制成的，两边都有裂缝。气缸放置在记录转台上，每分钟旋转78或45转。灯泡悬挂在圆柱体中心，旋转速度允许光以每秒8-13个脉冲的恒定频率从孔中射出。这个频率范围对应于阿尔法波，通常在人脑中存在的电振荡，同时放松。闭着眼睛观看梦机：脉动的光刺激视神经，改变大脑的电振荡。用户在闭合的眼睑后面体验到越来越明亮、复杂的颜色模式。图案变成形状和符号，旋转，直到用户感觉被颜色包围。据称，使用梦想家可以使人进入催眠状态。这种经历有时是非常强烈的，但是为了逃避它，人们只需要睁开眼睛。

Title:Dreammachine (in collaboration with Ian Sommerville)

artist:Brion Gysin

Date:1962

Style:Neo-Dada

Genre:installation

The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughss systems adviser Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walters book, The Living Brain. In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 or 45 revolutions per minute. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency of between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing. A dreamachine is viewed with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brains electrical oscillations. The user experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids. The patterns become shapes and symbols, swirling around, until the user feels surrounded by colors. It is claimed that using a dreamachine allows one to enter a hypnagogic state. This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open ones eyes.