I have some serious question as to whether the Nightmare machine uses Holograms at all. Sure, it's located at HFW, but the fact that it puts you to sleep and connects up to your brain while you're experiencing it's effects seems more like Technologically induced dreaming than a mere hologram.

This makes it quite a bit more realistic than, say, the Holodecks in Star Trek, since the machine can feed things directly into the minds of it's victims, while someone trapped in a Holodeck (For example, Picard in the episode "Ship in a bottle") is still actually seeing and hearing what the holograms show him. Dreams can be more surrealistic and still be convincing to the dreaming victim, however.

I wonder if technology like this also helps explain a lot of how HFW's better attractions are more realistic than the average Star Wars Hologram...the Nightmare Machine was able to perform a sort of mind probe on it's victims without their even knowing it, and that could be far more effective than the mind probe droid, say, in ANH for extracting information.

Red Elven 22:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the whole idea that the Nighmare Machine is a machine at all was a lie. Holograms were only used to make it look like the room was empty to give the creature a chance to hook its tentacles to the victims' heads. The story states quite clearly that no technology can do what the Nightmare "Machine" does, but certain species (such as that unnamed creature, obviously) can. --199.80.13.96 19:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, then the reference to people fighting "this machine" should be changed to "this creature ('Machine' was misdirection)"? Red Elven 01:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Nightmare BeastEdit

Anyone have any theories on what species the 'machine' (creature) is? Or at least what species it may have been modified from or related to? I think it might be related (or is) a Nightmare Demon. Dark Ridley 04:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)