ANAMNESIS
A 1983 psi-research terminal: honest remote-viewing trials and live binaural audio.
A 1983 psi-research terminal. Six sessions of live binaural audio and honest remote-viewing trials, run on a one-phosphor CRT, glitching toward Philip K. Dick. Targets lock before you look; your hit rate is reported against chance with no adjustment. Headphones required. Out now on itch.io and the web.
Background
March 1983. A joint SRI and Monroe annex is training remote viewers on Gateway audio, and you are Subject 0374. Each of six sessions puts a genuine binaural-beat sequence in your headphones, generated live in the browser, then runs a remote-viewing trial.
The trials are honest. The target is locked before you look, three decoys come from other categories, you judge blind, and your hit rate is reported against chance with no adjustment. The strangeness lives in the file around the trials, never in the scoring: memoranda change between reads, redactions move, and around the fourth session the program stops being sure what year it is.
It stands on three real threads: Philip K. Dick's 1977 Metz address and his 2-3-74 experience, the SRI protocol that became Project Stargate, and the Army's 1983 analysis of the Gateway Process. The machine is text mode only: one phosphor, one typeface, a character grid, and sound that is generated, never recorded. The studio's grid is the only colour in the program.
Where it stands
Released and free, in the browser and on itch.io. Six sessions, and a seventh that is not on file: a tape recovered from first-century Rome that reads your own record back to you. The machine reads its prompts aloud in a low, slow synthetic voice. A finished file prints as a dot-matrix hard copy to save or share, and after the finale a bare prompt waits for words nobody is told.
What's next
A coordinate of the day, one shared target for every viewer. Then a file that remembers across burns, and a machine that starts answering what you keep typing at it.