In a perfect world kids in 5th grade art class would learn how to make a Dream Machine and then be trained on using it.

It’s my not so humble opinion that the Dream Machine still remains near completely unexplored in both it’s potentials as an eye grabbing piece of kinetic sculpture and also as a tool of self-discovery and, possibly, healing technology.

What separates the Dream Machine from Light & Sound goggles or even good old fashioned meditating is that it is an off board device created by the user. And because so much time and effort and consideration is invested by the user into the construction of the device it takes on therapeutic contours that would otherwise not be present. The Dream Machine can become a Tulpa that is further realized upon each successive use.

The most alluring potential of this in my mind is for use on kids with ADD/HD. The Dream Machine could be built and decorated with any number of symbols and images that the patient has chosen because of their metaphorical gravity in service of bringing a calm and focused state. Perhaps the child finds a certain comfort that only it’s mother can provide, she then decorates the Dream Machine in photos of her mother, drawings of her mother and maybe even swatches of a fabric used to make her mother’s favorite shirt. Turn on the Dream Machine and directly control the patient’s brain state, put them into a meditative state by a kinetic means. And have the delivery system of that meditative state be covered in symbols and images that can subliminally offer a peace of mind and calming catalyst to begin to train the patient’s mind back to a more focused and productive means of existing.

And that’s just one possibility in a relatively untapped and endless fountain of potential.