AHASVERUS — Foundation - Ahasverus Act III
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A gloomy dark ambient master-piece from this Swedish project, rather silent expanses but filled with subliminal tension; more concrete noises (groaning, creaking) & slow pulses lead to a very uncanny atmosphere... thematically based on the "Fatal Familial Insomnia"-illness & the influence of dreaming to our personalites..
"When Dr. Ignazio Roiter found out that a woman in an italian family suddenly lost her ability to sleep completely, the established researchers didn´t believe him. The doctor found after a while that she was suffering from a very rare genetic disease that put the sleeping center in the brain out of use. The patients get more and more changed in personality, after half a year they are hard to communicate with, and after months they die. The gentic disease, called Fatal Familial Insomnia, has an inevitable end in death.
As the radio DJ Peter Tripp tried to place himself in the Guinness book of records for not sleeping for 200 hours, the research team that surveilled him noted that his brain went into dreaming mode – that is, it displayed the same visual energy distribution as when people normally are dreaming. But Peter Tripp wasn´t asleep, he was parttaking in the discussions at the table. Finally he actually made it into the Guinness book of records, but he also divorced his wife and lost his job because of changed personality.
Sleeping, and dreaming, are as these examples show necessary for us to remain unchanged as humans, and to live a social life. But what actually is happening on that other side is unreachable for the researchers. One of the most established methods to gain more knowledge about the mind is to study brain damages and psychologic disorders. But it is hard to see what the scholars can find out from this.
Maybe Ignazio Roiter and Peter Tripp would have agreed, that ultimatly the foundation for life is are the dreams, not the woken unlife. Those who have met Hecate in person can tell." [label notes]
www.ahasverus.se
"When Dr. Ignazio Roiter found out that a woman in an italian family suddenly lost her ability to sleep completely, the established researchers didn´t believe him. The doctor found after a while that she was suffering from a very rare genetic disease that put the sleeping center in the brain out of use. The patients get more and more changed in personality, after half a year they are hard to communicate with, and after months they die. The gentic disease, called Fatal Familial Insomnia, has an inevitable end in death.
As the radio DJ Peter Tripp tried to place himself in the Guinness book of records for not sleeping for 200 hours, the research team that surveilled him noted that his brain went into dreaming mode – that is, it displayed the same visual energy distribution as when people normally are dreaming. But Peter Tripp wasn´t asleep, he was parttaking in the discussions at the table. Finally he actually made it into the Guinness book of records, but he also divorced his wife and lost his job because of changed personality.
Sleeping, and dreaming, are as these examples show necessary for us to remain unchanged as humans, and to live a social life. But what actually is happening on that other side is unreachable for the researchers. One of the most established methods to gain more knowledge about the mind is to study brain damages and psychologic disorders. But it is hard to see what the scholars can find out from this.
Maybe Ignazio Roiter and Peter Tripp would have agreed, that ultimatly the foundation for life is are the dreams, not the woken unlife. Those who have met Hecate in person can tell." [label notes]
www.ahasverus.se