
First, some "quick notes" about the book so you know what the fuck is going on. Dr. John Lilly was a scientist who did things like experimenting on animal brains. He then studied & trained dolphins for the military. He became fascinated by them and started doing his own experiments, which included observing them trip out on LSD. He left and set up his own research base, to study dolphin psychology, hopefully break their language down, and maybe even attempt to communicate with them..
This particular study involved a dolphin and a human female living together, in a specially flooded flat, for two and a half months. The girl had to play with the dolphin every day, and attempt to teach him sounds for things (dolphins can make noises that mimick human sounds) which seemed to work with varying success on different dolphins.
In this chapter Margaret (the human) reports how things went. In these pages, she observes that some learning did take place, but not necessarily the type planned. In short, the dolphin turned out to have his own curriculum for her..
Note that she has previously been discouraging Peter (the dolphin) from coming too close with an open mouth- dolphin teeth can draw blood, and their bite can break limbs. Also if you don't like where its going, well.. sorry!
So anyway. click the pics!:


ive not read the pages yet, but i once read a story about this guy called jon, he was a scientist and he was hooked on LSD. He specialised in mind control and thought that monkeys might be the key to working it all out.
ReplyDeleteweird. almost reminds me of that story where all these unsuspecting citizens were hallucinating in fear. did he turn up at union station with a package in his hand?
ReplyDeleteyes! thats the guy! and i dont think you realise hes coming for your neck!
ReplyDeleteFirst Bonobos, now Dolphins?
ReplyDeleteJust be careful if googling 'dolphin how to'.
Fascinating read.
Humans-dolphin3.jpg is missing
lol yep, i seen that 'rather helpful' howto page. I think its actually one of the things responsible for my interest in dolphins to be honest.
ReplyDeleteAlso your right, no human-dolphin3 jpg.. when i scanned them in from the book, i scanned in 4 sets of pages, but pages 180 and 183 was just her talking about the experiment in general and not particularly worth including. So i just stick 181 and 182 together. and thats the story :P