The Dreamachine is a stroboscopic flicker device that induces the brain to produce visual imagery. David Bowie and Kurt Cobain have used the Dreamachine for inspiration in the creative process, as well as: John Giorno, Laurie Anderson, Steve Lacy, Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Genesis P-Orridge, Floria Sigismondi, William Burroughs, and many others.
Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs’s “systems adviser” Ian Sommerville created the Dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter’s book, The Living Brain. It is the first object in history designed to be viewed with closed eyes.
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