jungletoad: There is this bookstore near where I live that sells lots of vaguely religious/spiritual books and they carried this "game" last time I was there a few years ago. It looked gimmicky, but I would be interested to try it. You basically just learn to control your heart rate and galvanic skin response using different breathing and meditation techniques. When you become proficient enough at it, then you can drop or increase the measurements and unlock sequences of the game.
Though I haven't tried this, I have played similar games that required a you wear an EEG cap that reads your brain waves. They use operant conditioning to train you how to activate different areas of your brain. Activating these areas makes something happen on the screen. What you can control with your brain is rather crude though, like turning a volume knob up or down, or a switch on or off. It also doesn't feel natural or intuitive at all. The "game" I played was really basic too. I had to keep a car in the middle of the road by thinking a certain way. If I didn't activate the correct portion of my brain, the car would veer off the road. The point of it wasn't really to play the game though. The people working with it wanted to conduct research for training your brain. They believe if you activated different brain areas repeatedly, then it would exercise and strengthen those areas, and they wanted to research this idea. They could set the requirements for the on/off switch controls to whatever part of they brain they wanted you to strengthen, then you just have to play the brain-wave controlled car game to give that brain region practice.
Controlling your own heart rate sounds like a neat trick. Never learned that on LSD lol. This other game reminds me of The Lawnmower man, but concerning my love for the X-Men I'd love to try my hand at telekinesis in a video game, sounds rad.
