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Video games for enlightenment

#3184745 - 09/27/04 12:22 AM (19 years, 6 months ago)

When somebody goes through the "honeymoon" phase of playing super bomberman 5 with 5 human players simultaneously, they'll play for six hours at a time and when they go to bed and close their eyes, all they can see is a grid with little bombermen running around.

You've probably noticed this in the early rounds of any serious video game playing.. things like running around corners like you're still playing doom, or sizing up cars for jacking after a GTA binge.

I'm just wondering if anybody thinks this effect of video games could be exploited to produce shamanic or other altered states. Maybe you could use video games before bed to induce lucid dreams. Maybe you could use the mindstate created after a specially designed game to make the player a robotically efficient worker or number-shuffler* for a short amount of time.

Or maybe you could play a super awesome 3D flight simulator where you fly through a digital version of your personal anatomy shooting up cancerous tumours. This could focus you and aid in your mind over matter and maybe cure shit. The game box would have to be hooked up taking constant measures of your vitals and sampling your blood which would then be interpreted by your computer and help create the video game universe more accurate. Like your blood pressure would affect movement in the blood stream, and the ratio of white and red blood cells as well as cholesteraol and lung capacity would make a difference. This way you could also keep up with an accurate representation of your condition. Such a game would probably the most effective method for mind over matter and totally settle the issue. That would be the reeeeaaal deal yo

Print that out as a sticker and put it in all the public bathrooms you use. I'm gonna print 100 of them, but modified for black and white, and I'll put them in 100 public bathrooms.

*such a job may not exist

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