Stroboscope & CEVs

[Blue Druid]

I've been reading 'Heaven and Hell' by Aldous Huxley & in the appendix there's some interesting comments about stroboscope lamps "enriching & intensifying the visons induced by mescalin or lysergic acid".

I see stroboscopes are just white lamps that strobe on and off rapidly, and that can certainly be good for a trip but this is talking specifically about CEVs:

independently observed by several experimenters, that the stroboscope tends to enrich & intensify the visons induced by mescalin or lysergic acid. Here for example is a case communicated to me by a medical friend. He had taken lysergic acid and was seeing, with eyes shut, only coloured, moving patterns. Then he sat down in front of a stroboscope. The lamp was turned on and, immediately, abstract geometry was transformed into what my friend described as 'Japanese landscapes' of surpassing beauty.

Without drugs:

To sit with eyes closed, in front of a stroboscopic lamp is a very curious and fascinating experience. No sooner is the lamp turned on than the most brilliantly coloured patterns make themselves visible. These patterns are not static, but change incessantly. Their prevailing colour is a function of the stroboscope's rate of discharge. When the lamp is flashing at any speed between ten to fourteen or fifteen times a second, the patterns are prevailingly orange and red. Green and blue make their appearance when the rate exceeds fifteen flashes a second. After eighteen or nineteen the patterns become white or grey.

This was published in 1956 so I'd expect that there's more known about this by now, and I'd expect - if Huxley's account is accurate - that the effects of a stroboscope with Mescaline or LSD would be similar for any other psychedelic. So does anyone have any more up to date knowledge or experience of this, specifically on the enhancing & transforming of CEVs.

 

[elucidator]

Strobe lights with psychedelics and dissociatives are awesome and can profoundly enhance the visuals of a trip, if the correct frequency of flashes is found that works best. Sometimes if the frequency dosent match the brainwaves at the time it could bring one out of the visuals somewhat.
Here is a list of brainwave frequencies taken from here

NSFW:

Beta Brain Waves (13-30 cycles per second). The fastest, representing the most intense state of alertness. The result of heightened mental activity. Maximum mind power. All five external senses, logical mind, memory from the five senses & logical thinking.

Alpha Brain Waves (8 to 12 cycles per second) This brain wave indicates a relaxed state of mind.. State of relaxed alertness, good for inspiration and learning facts fast. A meditative mind. In this state tap into internal “antenna” like qualities. Visions, powerful ideas, mindless creation of the incredible. Internal feeling & sensations.

Theta Brain Waves (4 to 8 cycles per second) Deep meditation. Deep inward thought. This is associated with life-like imagination. High state of mental concentration. A magical mind. Internal pictures / visualisation. Intuition, inner guidance. Access to unconscious material. Dreaming.

Delta Brain Waves (0.5 to 4 cycles per second) Deep dreamless sleep. Deep relaxation. State of oneness, whole body feeling. Pure being & will.

Avoid if you are epileptic or prone to seziures, but well worth trying otherwise.

 

[Si Dread]

Avoid if you are epileptic or prone to seziures,

... which would also be a good reason to steer clear of psychedelic drugs in the first place, would it not?