Batmemes was inspired, and has taken some of its techniques, from a movement in France in the 60’s known as Oulipo (for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature.)

This movement experimented with the pinions underlying language. It explored boundaries of creativity that weren’t anchored to the limited experiences and conditioning which influence most of our thinking down well traveled neural paths. This is similar, also, to the approach of Mozart and his experiments with number for structure and key.

These processes aren’t random, like the monkeys and typewriters, but rather they jump or map from one structure to another. Batmemes provides automatic mappings to several “linguistic domains” using the following techniques:
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Electroencephalogram (EEG), Biofeedback and frequencies research related to the BioRecharge tracks.
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Or just create your own virtual reality

In 1988 a professor at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota started an experiment with students of average IQs. The students, exercising their minds with a specific protocol, demonstrated IQ gains ranging from 2.3 to 0.9 per hour. They measured a 20 point increase in IQs over the 40 hour duration of the experiments —additional gains after this period appeared to be open-ended. Perhaps not so incidentally, the exercise was found to increase creativity, vivid mental imagery, cross-hemispheric communications and verbal fluency in addition to facilitating access to subconscious processes.
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ABSTRACT

A special one quarter, 4 credit hour course was developed at Southwest State University in order to begin to understand the effect of a verbally described imagery process, generically referred to as Image Streaming, on the development of intellectual skills of university students. Most of the students in the course had been provisionally admitted to the University, with a measured I.Q. slightly below 95. Pretests and posttests of analytical skills, creativity, and learning style were administered. Students’ verbalization techniques were monitored during each class. Cerebral dominance was measured using eye, ear, and leg preference. Occasional feedback was solicited from students concerning health, the number of intuitive insights experienced and other factors.
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Wear this to your favorite sushi dive, show the fish who they’re dealing with

Have you eaten fugu and lived tell about it —one hundred people a year don’t. A black lotto. Fugu contains the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, 1200 times more powerful than cyanide; one fugu has enough of this poison to kill 30 adults.

If you are one of the few initiated into eating as an extreme sport, we have a commemorative t-shirt just for you. The Japanese characters say “Fugu Survivor.” The kanji for fugu translates literally as “river pig” … can’t see why.