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This is an article from Jayne Gackenbach. She has studied the effects of video game play on nighttime dream. She discovered that people that play 3D games are more likely to get lucid dreams. This is also described in my paper 'lucid dreaming and game design'.

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Will right talks about interesting things (video 2/6). Procedural design, user generated content, measurable user trends.

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Fractal

A Lucas Arts game from 1985 which uses fractal techniques to build the landscape.

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This is brilliant!!! I've found a paper on procedural game design that exactly covers the questions and problems I have like 'how to integrate play and world creation?'.

" In order to integrate space generation and gameplay, one has to become part of the other. Charbitat is an experimental single-player game prototype in which the player creates the world as s/he plays through it. There are no points to win or records to break but the gameplay is a goaldriven exploration and generation of space."

It describes a game called 'Charbitat' in which the player creates the gameworld while being there.

Screenshot from 'Charbitat' and tech

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This is a scene from 'Waking Life'. It's a realistic view on lucid dreams. Not a stupid spiritual one

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Apparently there's a kind of instrument called 'the dream machine'. It produces light flickerings that match the frequency of the alpha waves in your head. This movie should have the same effect:

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There's also a program that is called i-doser that stimulates the same alpha waves with sound that slowly interferes. The program clames to be able to reproduce the effects of several types of drugs, lucid dreams and other halucogenic states of the mind.

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www.dream-recorder.com/ - A program that uses a webca to detect movement during sleep(REM-Sleep) wakes you up and records anything you tell it (supposedly dreams)

www.wefeelfine.org/ - A cool site that harvests feelings from web logs and shows them as little bouncing dots.
artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/ - same concept but about 'breaking up'.

Kronos Projector - A great video/image vj tool thing. play with time and space.

www.youtube.com hyve search. It is a virtual world with endless input taken from places of your interest.

www.stumbleupon.com This site suggests nice sites of your interest. you can say if you like it or not. The more you use it the more suitable sites you will get (based on your own input and thousands of other users)

www.Last.fm - same sort of project but for music.

web3.highfeather.com A great project of a friend of mine. It's a symantic web system based onm users input, moderating, voting. It works great.

www.flickr.com A great photo site/ tag based database.

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www.electricsheep.org "Do androids dream of electric sheep'

This is a program (a screensaver) that creates random moving images from a 'DNA' code. A user can say if he likes an image and this particular DNA code will then make chilldren with other liked DNA codes (from other users). In this way the computers share a 'collective dream' that gets prettier and clearer all the time.