is a ganzfield-induced hallucinatory experience.

It’s easy! Just cut a ping-pong ball in half, and cover your eyes with the halves. Get some headphones and play white or pink noise through them, and lay back in a comfy chair. You may or may not want to shine a red light on yourself. In theory, you’ll have all kinds of hallucinations, possibly including visions of dead relatives, or something like this:

“In the right side of the visual field, a manikin suddenly appeared. He was all in black, had a long narrow head, fairly broad shoulders, very long arms and a relatively small trunk…. He approached me, stretching out his hands, very long, very big, like a bowl, and he stayed so for a while, and then he went back to where he came from, slowly.”

I got a couple days off coming up, and a hell of a lot of spare ping-pong balls. Who wants to party?

Anthony Hecht is The Stranger's Chief Technology Officer. He owns no monkeys.

7 replies on “All I Want for Xmas…”

  1. I got a couple days off coming up, and a hell of a lot of spare ping-pong balls. Who wants to party?

    throw in lederhosen and a tub of Crisco, and you’ve got a date baby.

  2. Oooooh……wait until the DEA finds out. You’re gonna see massive raids on Big 5 and GI Joes, all broadcast by your local TV station.

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