Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Ganzfeld Hunt
You wouldn't believe how difficult ping pong balls are to find when you actually (1st world) need them. I mean, any other given time they're just hanging around on hangers next to futuristic squirt guns, cheap non-movable action figures, and flimsy tiara and wand packages in the cereal isle to add to the overstimulated mind of a 3-8 year-old. Oppositely, they hang around next to Solo cups during the back to College sale at Walmart, probably more blatantly obvious than their legal team would like.
Either way, I couldn't find them, and my friend couldn't find them after going to four gas stations. Only after dragging along to numerous gas stations, grocery stores, and dollar marts, did I find them.
Am I going to play ping pong? No. Beer pong? No. Make Kermit the frog eyeballs? No. Hallucinate? Yes.
Wait. What? Did I just write hallucinate? You bet. It's called a Gazfeld Effect/Hallucination, and the basic premise is that if you eliminate or block out one or more sensory inputs, your mind just begins creating them where they should be. By blocking out sight with a ping pong ball chopped in two, and numbing out sound with white noise, the effect is much more likely to work. Here are a few of the more comical testimonials wrapped up into one mini video:
Of course, the fact that they keep shouting out what they're seeing might give it sort of a Ouija board sort of feel, which seems to cheapen the experience.
If you can get your hands on a halved ping-pong ball and a little bit of white noise, try this out for yourself and post your results in the comments. Worst case scenario is that you tried and got to relax for 30 minutes. And whatever you do, do not turn them into Kermit the Frog eyeballs before you try the experiment, it won't give that same diffuse light effect.
Enjoy!
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