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Got this from a Spaniard friend of mine. I've translated the text. I thought it'd be interesting to share here for a first post.
In thel E3 2003, VALVe presented various videos to show the technology that they would use in Half-Life 2, ragdolls, props, enemies, etc... and also a strange video, a very fast succesion of images against a black blackground, with a pic of Gman at the end. Gabe Newell stated that in this video there was a easter egg. Many people call this video "Psyche", look for it in google.
In this video appeared strange artwork & conceps of several things, including Gman, and stalkers, all of them repeated at least twice. But there was a pic of a text that appeared for a very short time, and only once:
The text said the following
under observation. Galvanic activation with seve...
...cidence of seizure and muscular catatonia, reco...
...titration of 30 ml sample, sustained alpha activit...
...reeman, Gordon: increased activity in neural iso...
...no response. Subject to availability and urgency...
lambda [HL simbol here] unknown vector at this time. Requirements of
...eyond current threshold for amgydalic suppressi...
...ark energy remnant in the simulation until basa...
...f evaluation despite objections of caretakers give
Even tough many letters are missing to both sides of the text, we can figure out what some of the prases say. My spaniard friend was particulary interested in the 1st and 2nd lines:
under observation. Galvanic activation with severe...
...incidence of seizure and muscular catatonia,
My spaniard friend believes that this prase can explain a lot of things.
- Galvanic: In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current.
Galvanic treatment... while should anyone be using this on Gordon? Easy, this treatment is only used in facial and other body parts that are burned and etc, But what happened to Freeman, why does he need this treatment? I will explain this further on, now I will explain other term used in the text, "catatonia".
Catatonia: A psychiatric symptom that is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is indicative of other conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse and/or overdose. It bears similarity to conditions such as encephalitis lethargica and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. There are a variety of treatments available, and depending on the case, one or more drugs may be used, including antipsychotics and benzodiazepines. Catatonia is not a mental disorder in itself; it is a symptom of other mental disorders. There is a subtype of schizophrenia called "catatonic schizophrenia" in which the patient experiences an extreme loss of motor ability or constant hyperactive motor activity. Catatonic patients will sometimes hold rigid poses for hours and will ignore any external stimuli. Sometimes it can be expressed by a motionless, apathetic state in which one is oblivious or does not react to external stimuli. Motor activity is nearly non-existent. Individuals in this state make little or no eye contact with others and may be mute and rigid.
So to make it short, Freeman is suffering from Catatonia, caused by a severe accident, which can also result in schizophrenia, which can cause simulations and ficticious situations in the patient's mind.
So we can say that absolutely everything is an allucination, caused by Freeman's catatonia, which was in turn caused by the accident he suffered in the test chamber of the Anomalous materials lab. You see, everything you see in Half Life at the start of the game (The train, the labs, etc) was real, up to the point where an explosion in the test chamber left him with catatonia. After this accident, they had to apply to him the galvanic treatment as the text says, due to burns he had in his face and body.
Conclusions:
So everything Gordon experiences are hallucinations, twisted interpretations of what is happening in the real world around him, events that he can't fully understand or grasp due to his mental illness. So, we could say that the events and characters in Half Life represent other events or concepts that go trough Gordon's sick mind, or perhaps internal conflicts of his.
My Spaniard friend quoted Philip K. Dick, a writer, when he was talking about a novel of his which more or less treated the same theme. Philip explained the hallucinations in his book with this: "We are in a state of half-life. We are neither dead nor alive, but preserved in cold storage, waiting to be thawed out". This could explain the name of the game; the state in which Gordon is, a catatonic, vegetative state, no fully dead, not fully alive: Half life.
So who are Shepard and Barney? Well, he didn't have a good answer for that.
Please comment!
In thel E3 2003, VALVe presented various videos to show the technology that they would use in Half-Life 2, ragdolls, props, enemies, etc... and also a strange video, a very fast succesion of images against a black blackground, with a pic of Gman at the end. Gabe Newell stated that in this video there was a easter egg. Many people call this video "Psyche", look for it in google.
In this video appeared strange artwork & conceps of several things, including Gman, and stalkers, all of them repeated at least twice. But there was a pic of a text that appeared for a very short time, and only once:
The text said the following
under observation. Galvanic activation with seve...
...cidence of seizure and muscular catatonia, reco...
...titration of 30 ml sample, sustained alpha activit...
...reeman, Gordon: increased activity in neural iso...
...no response. Subject to availability and urgency...
lambda [HL simbol here] unknown vector at this time. Requirements of
...eyond current threshold for amgydalic suppressi...
...ark energy remnant in the simulation until basa...
...f evaluation despite objections of caretakers give
Even tough many letters are missing to both sides of the text, we can figure out what some of the prases say. My spaniard friend was particulary interested in the 1st and 2nd lines:
under observation. Galvanic activation with severe...
...incidence of seizure and muscular catatonia,
My spaniard friend believes that this prase can explain a lot of things.
- Galvanic: In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current.
Galvanic treatment... while should anyone be using this on Gordon? Easy, this treatment is only used in facial and other body parts that are burned and etc, But what happened to Freeman, why does he need this treatment? I will explain this further on, now I will explain other term used in the text, "catatonia".
Catatonia: A psychiatric symptom that is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is indicative of other conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse and/or overdose. It bears similarity to conditions such as encephalitis lethargica and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. There are a variety of treatments available, and depending on the case, one or more drugs may be used, including antipsychotics and benzodiazepines. Catatonia is not a mental disorder in itself; it is a symptom of other mental disorders. There is a subtype of schizophrenia called "catatonic schizophrenia" in which the patient experiences an extreme loss of motor ability or constant hyperactive motor activity. Catatonic patients will sometimes hold rigid poses for hours and will ignore any external stimuli. Sometimes it can be expressed by a motionless, apathetic state in which one is oblivious or does not react to external stimuli. Motor activity is nearly non-existent. Individuals in this state make little or no eye contact with others and may be mute and rigid.
So to make it short, Freeman is suffering from Catatonia, caused by a severe accident, which can also result in schizophrenia, which can cause simulations and ficticious situations in the patient's mind.
So we can say that absolutely everything is an allucination, caused by Freeman's catatonia, which was in turn caused by the accident he suffered in the test chamber of the Anomalous materials lab. You see, everything you see in Half Life at the start of the game (The train, the labs, etc) was real, up to the point where an explosion in the test chamber left him with catatonia. After this accident, they had to apply to him the galvanic treatment as the text says, due to burns he had in his face and body.
Conclusions:
So everything Gordon experiences are hallucinations, twisted interpretations of what is happening in the real world around him, events that he can't fully understand or grasp due to his mental illness. So, we could say that the events and characters in Half Life represent other events or concepts that go trough Gordon's sick mind, or perhaps internal conflicts of his.
My Spaniard friend quoted Philip K. Dick, a writer, when he was talking about a novel of his which more or less treated the same theme. Philip explained the hallucinations in his book with this: "We are in a state of half-life. We are neither dead nor alive, but preserved in cold storage, waiting to be thawed out". This could explain the name of the game; the state in which Gordon is, a catatonic, vegetative state, no fully dead, not fully alive: Half life.
So who are Shepard and Barney? Well, he didn't have a good answer for that.
Please comment!
