{"id":245983,"date":"2026-10-26T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-machine-can-hijack-your-brains-reality-engine-and-reveal-a-hidden-world-inside-you"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:12:30","slug":"this-machine-can-hijack-your-brains-reality-engine-and-reveal-a-hidden-world-inside-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-machine-can-hijack-your-brains-reality-engine-and-reveal-a-hidden-world-inside-you","title":{"rendered":"This Machine Can Hijack Your Brain\u2019s \u2018Reality Engine\u2019\u2014And Reveal a Hidden World Inside You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"This Machine Can Hijack Your Brain\u2019s \u2018Reality Engine\u2019\u2014And Reveal a Hidden World Inside You\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iJ-IjC86diU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Afterward, participants were led into the reflection room where staffers offered to help them process what they had experienced. At a center table, participants could draw what they\u2019d seen. \u201cPeople had very profound emotional experiences,\u201d Crook says. \u201cWe saw a lot of grief, a lot of buried sadness or loneliness. For the first time, people were given a space in which to sit with themselves for an hour or so with their feelings and with other people around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those people was Daniel Tudor, a young man who attended the experience 27 times in London. The Dreamachine, he says, allowed him to process unresolved trauma, including the death of his father. After the experience, he called his mother to tell her about it, and \u201cstarted to cry very hard,\u201d he told the Dreamachine team. \u201cI have never cried in front of my mum before. It was like the experience in the Dreamachine released those emotions which I had buried since childhood.\u201d Since then, Tudor says, he has become calmer, happier, lighter, more accepting of life as it is, more humble and tolerant, more accepting of others\u2019 views.<\/p>\n<p>So how did the Dreamachine experience facilitate that? It comes down to the way our brains experience our environment, says Reeder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afterward, participants were led into the reflection room where staffers offered to help them process what they had experienced. At a center table, participants could draw what they\u2019d seen. \u201cPeople had very profound emotional experiences,\u201d Crook says. \u201cWe saw a lot of grief, a lot of buried sadness or loneliness. For the first time, people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}