'Hallucination machine' gives drug-free psychedelic trip

A'hallucination machine' that sends your brain on a psychedelic trip without the need for drugs has been developed by scientists. Using Google Artificial Intelligence and a virtual reality headset, the device makes users hallucinate as if they have taken LSD or magic mushrooms. The machine was developed to help researchers better understand how the brain responds to altering realities. Brain scans taken on people using the machine could help determine if our'reality' is just a type of hallucination, the researchers claim. Through a virtual reality headset, the hallucination machine repeatedly shows selected images and patterns, such as a dog (top right) or colourful lines (bottom left) and spirals (bottom right) layered over reality.