Amended and expanded edition (5th printing 1994) 20pp A5 stapled booklet. Illustrated. Pink card covers lightly soiled else VG+.
 
The Dreamachine was devised by Brion Gysin, artist, traveller, writer and alchemist; one of the unsung English painters of the 20th Century, expelled by Breton from the Surrealists, and the seminal influence who introduced William Burroughs to the use of permutations and cut-ups in writing. 
 
The Dreamachine arose from Gysin’s observations of the effects of passing rapidly through a vale of trees, the flickering of sunlight causing him to enter into an altered state of consciousness. The effects of flicker are potent. The process itself was known to North African tribesmen who entered trance states through the rapid movement of their hands and fingers across their closed eyes, heads tilted towards the Sun. The Dreamachine itself, devised by Brion Gysin and his collaborator lan Sommerville requires no more than a sheet of card (using cut-out templates provided in this booklet) and the recycling of a redundant record player (though harder to come by now than in the early 1990s…)
 
Temple Press editor “Words” (under his real name Paul Cecil) would go on to edit a collection of related writings entitled Flickers of the Dreamachine.