Lasers That Put Voices In Your Head

Summary

February 18, 2008: According to report from 1998, the Pentagon investigated using lasers as a form of torture. Possible effects include:

• Using lasers to make the target hear voices or other noises.
• Inducing unconsciousness, seizures, muscle spasms, and muscle weakness.

According to the report, such weapons could have a range of several hundreds of meters, although there is no indication that such weapons were actually ever built.

Source

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Game and Story Use

• Such lasers make a great addition to a "dirty tricks" arsenal, especially in conspiracy games rife with paranoia.
• Lasers that make you hear voices? Put on your Tinfoil Hat to protect you from the Orbital Mind Control Lasers! Conspiracy Theorist characters may cite this as vindication - proof that the OMCLs are real.
  • Even funnier if the Pentagon got the idea from the conspiracy theory in the first place…