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RedLion:
Whoa. What exactly is a dream machine? I've looked at a couple of youtube videos linked to the one posted here, but I'm not really grasping what the point of it is. It definitely looks trippy/fascinating, though.

onewheelwizzard:
The original dream machine was a perforated tube, sitting on a turntable, with a light suspended in the middle of it.  The premise behind a dream machine is that if you stimulate the visual field by strobing light to alternating eyes at a certain frequency, you can alter the frequency of your brainwave activity and sync it to the machine, and since different mind/brain states (such as REM sleep, slow-wave sleep, meditation, and wakefulness) each correspond to different frequencies in EEG activity, using a dream machine to alter your brain activity is basically like putting yourself in a trance state of your choice depending on what frequency the dream machine is set up to strobe at.  That's the idealized premise, anyway.  I'm not sure how much study has been done on them.  I do know that the man who showed me his electronic dream machine said that it was set up for 20-minute and hour-long meditation sessions, as well as presets intended to put you to sleep for a certain amount of time and that sort of thing.  The visual effect of wearing the thing was really quite amazing, and you can get away with just using a dream machine to watch pretty designs on the backs of your eyelids.

snalin:
A bit of topic; but there's something that intrigues me. Every time I visit America-based forum boards with (mostly) american posters, there's always a LOT of people that does/has done drugs. I don't know if it's me who just hang out with the wrong people, or if it's a cultural thing, but that's not even close to the state of things here in Norway. People drink a lot, but drugs are pretty rare.

Is there a lot of drugs amoung young people (the 16-25ish) in the USA? How comon is drugs in your local area?

Tom:
I live in the the Eastern Suburbs of New South Wales, Australia and almost everyone knows where you can get some of anything. What can I say, people get bored down here. I'd have tried marijuana already but if it's not conventional food/air/water and it makes it's way into my system I'm left feeling nauseous, headache-y, tired and sore all over.Thanks Mum!

Social Bacon:
My city, London, has a fairly large society of Cannabis users to it. We have head shops all around the downtown core along with two larger drug shops called "Hi-Times" and "The Organic Traveler", almost anyone who lives here could tell you were to find these shops. Spend a few hours hanging out in our big downtown park and someone will ask if you're interested in buying weed. For 420 several hundred people gathered in this park (which is right next to City Hall) to celebrate. Harder drug use is more difficult to gauge as it isn't as social and is more illegal.

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