I want one of these.
Drunk commies deleted
15-06-2007, 15:52
Police and emergency services people are being trained on a new device that mimics the hallucinations and delusions that a person with serious schitzophrenia endures. One simulation has the wearer sitting in a bus as other riders appear and dissapear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and a disembodied voice whispers "they're taking you back to the FBI".
This sounds fucking fantastic! How trippy would a crazy simulator be? I seriously want one.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-06/st_insane
Police and emergency services people are being trained on a new device that mimics the hallucinations and delusions that a person with serious schitzophrenia endures. One simulation has the wearer sitting in a bus as other riders appear and dissapear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and a disembodied voice whispers "they're taking you back to the FBI".
This sounds fucking fantastic! How trippy would a crazy simulator be? I seriously want one.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-06/st_insane
Call me when they program one to take you to Silent Hill...
All the trip, none of the LSD.
Call to power
15-06-2007, 15:54
wait...thats not supposed to happen without the device?
Dundee-Fienn
15-06-2007, 15:54
Wow that would be really interesting to try out. I know a few people who have had problems with hallucinations in the past but their descriptions don't really give you much of an idea about the true feelings you would have at the time
I like the second scenario a little bit better, as it's more realistic in terms of what emergency service people are likely to encounter. The only real problem is that the service people know that it's just a simulation - someone with schizophrenia thinks it really is reality.
Dundee-Fienn
15-06-2007, 16:05
I like the second scenario a little bit better, as it's more realistic in terms of what emergency service people are likely to encounter. The only real problem is that the service people know that it's just a simulation - someone with schizophrenia thinks it really is reality.
It allows them to show empathy rather than sympathy, yes but thats more than they could do than before
Remote Observer
15-06-2007, 16:07
I think it would be more convincing to the trainees if you slipped them some LSD and mescaline, and then sat them on the "bus".
Troglobites
15-06-2007, 16:12
Does this bus go all the way to 3rd?.... What a minute.:eek:
Andaluciae
15-06-2007, 16:35
As LSD rapidly becomes obsolete...
As LSD rapidly becomes obsolete...
Can you imagine making someone use the device WHILE on LSD???
I think a black hole might form in the subjects mind. :p
Andaluciae
15-06-2007, 16:40
Can you imagine making someone use the device WHILE on LSD???
I think a black hole might form in the subjects mind. :p
And the universe collapse into it...in the most groovy fashion possible.
And the universe collapse into it...in the most groovy fashion possible.
No, it'd be like the Total Perspective Vortex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex)
Andaluciae
15-06-2007, 16:50
No, it'd be like the Total Perspective Vortex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex)
So, only Zaphod can survive :)
You win the thread.
And the universe collapse into it...in the most groovy fashion possible.
We're in the middle of nowhere, which is the safest part of nowhere.[/Fry]