My Library

Getting ready to do each session took some time. First I had to ensure that I wouldn't need to take a leak (or a number two) and that I wasn't hungry. When I was ready, I was required to enter the experiment chamber and under watchful eyes sit immediately in the Out-Of-Body Chair. Then I had to sit patiently while Janet pasted the electrodes to my scalp, neck and finger. Then the temperamental Dynograph which measured the brainwaves had to be got going and seen to be working properly. If not, the machine needed to be fiddled with. If the electrodes needed to be readjusted or repasted, then that had to be done, too. Then the intercom between the experimental chamber and Janet's Dynograph room on the other side of the partition needed to be tested. Then the recording equipment which I would speak into to narrate what I was "seeing" on the target trays above also needed to be got going. Dr. Osis left the whole of this to Janet, and to she sweated away, raced back and forth between the two rooms, and said "goddamn it" a lot. The whole of this might take twenty minutes when things were going well, but it usually took about an hour since all things usually didn't go well.