A.R.G.
For those of you into puzzles and feeling unsettled, Alternate Reality Games will provide both in spades.
Having played a couple or so myself, I can say that there is a definite sense of being creeped out a lot of the time.
Think of them as an opportunity to spend a certain portion of your life morbidly fascinated with something that leaves you unsure whether you should continue … or whether it isn’t already too late —unsure if you haven’t been watching your own realworld equivalent of the video footage from The Ring.
And I’ve been involved in one or two realworld things myself, over which I shall draw a discreet veil — suffice to say they involved neurogenetic (re)programing by way of audio-time-sinks.
Moreover, manipulation of neurocognitive function, by way of placement of particular colours, shapes, lines and spaces in certain relations to each other … combined with colour-cycling patterns too fast or, conversely, too slow to be consciously perceived … frame-rate frequency patterns … and so forth … is not necessarily as ‘out there’ as you might think.
So, what I’m saying is have fun, but …
As a (neuro)psychologist, I feel bound to warn you that … whilst I have no reason to suspect any of them of being any more than very cleverly constructed interactive horror experiences … there’s more to neuropsychological (re)programming than you might realise … or possibly even than anyone yet knows … and it might, therefore, be wise to be wary of them at the same time — no-one actually knows why some of them were created in the first place … or by whom.
Furthermore some of them might be hiding genuine horror stories perpetrated by seriously disturbed individuals. How badly do you want to solve that puzzle — do you really want to know?
For a fun … and suitably creepy … introduction to some of the weirder ones …
