It would have been annoying if it wasn’t so funny.
However, hypnotic and trance-inducing screensavers have always fascinated me.
The answer is simple - mental foreplay.
moments which Ramachandran describes as “visual foreplay before the final climax of object recognition.”
Drempels - A Screensaver and Desktop Theme in One
Drempelsis one of the most popular mesmerizing screensavers available.
Currently Drempels is only offered for Windows, and keep in mind that you’ll need DirectX 5.0 installed.
Installation is just a matter of downloading the .scr files and placing them in your screensaver directory.
I have three favorites from this collection of eleven.
Solar windslaunches a series of streaming beaded lasers across the length of your desktop.
Euphoriais really hard to describe, but it’s amazing to watch.
These dancing phantom colors will soothe your troubled mind and calm your nerves.
Heliosis easily my favorite “really slick” screensaver of all of them.
Znow will overlay special effects over all windows and applications.
The effects include snow, rain, fire fall, northern lights, hallucinations and more.
The effect is selected from a drop-down list when you first launch the system.
The software creators tout this as a feature that allows you to give your eyes a rest.
