Although it mainly considered hallucinations prompted by psychiatric problems or neurophysiological issues, it also gave due regard to the perceptions of the drug-addled mind. Enthusiasts of psychedelia would particularly enjoy the illustration of “associative changes claimed for complex images induced by tetrahydrocannabinol”.
In our 6 January 1990 issue, we bust open still more doors of perception. Some people who experienced “lucid dreams” were helping researchers discover more about sleeping brains. Lucid dreaming, we explained, is the state of being asleep but aware you are dreaming. Some dreamers were so adept that they could count to 10 within their dream while signalling to the (awake) researchers the start and end of the count. We also suggested that such dreams might link to the Box 3-style fruitloopery of the 1960s in the form of an out-of-this-world prog rock staple. Alleged UFO abductions, we speculated, might be the result of lucid