When searching for old sci-fi cartoons, I came across one that caught my attention. A 1982 cartoon named Space Adventure Cobra. Just a decade after the Psychedelic Art influence hit Japan, we can still see various elements of psychedelia featured in the movie, not just in art but in the exploration of the mind.
And let me tell you, the exploration of the mind shouldn’t be taken lightly.
While living in a futuristic city filled with neon, alien entities, and androids as companions, the protagonist is broke, both financially and mentally, feeling like a big part of his life is missing, and he doesn’t remember much of his past. This all changes when his android recommends a cheap entertainment for the protagonist.
To go see a “Trip Movie”.
My brain started ringing after hearing this concept, especially after one of the characters explained how the “trip movies” work. According to the character working in the facility, these Trip Movies work by tuning our brain to lower frequencies. The client would pick a movie, and by fine-tuning these frequencies, they would be able to reproduce that experience within their mind.
While selecting what we trip about is somewhat impossible to determine, there are certain ways we can attempt to modulate someone’s trip by using external factors. Allowing people to enter such a trance or altered state by fine-tuning their brains is not just possible, but real, and can produce life-changing experiences.
Read more here:
https://psychedelicsasl.com/trip-movies-a-lost-concept-in-retro-sci-fi/
by BorodinAldolReaction
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2001 would be a good example.
There’s also an old Ray Bradbury novel, where 2 non religious people in the US does a car trip, and need to stop, and get into a electrical enclosure, and get some kind of spiritual experience dues electricity like “we are one with the universe” …