, the latest film in the franchise, which comes out on Friday.

I step into the booth with some trepidation. I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human.It's an experience that brings to mind the test in the science fiction film Bladerunner, designed to distinguish humans from artificially created beings posing as humans.

Could I be a robot from the future and not know it? Would I pass the test?The researchers assure me that this is not actually what this experiment is about. The device that they call the "Dreamachine", after theof the same name, is designed to study how the human brain generates our conscious experiences of the world.

As the strobing begins, and even though my eyes are closed, I see swirling two-dimensional geometric patterns. It's like jumping into a kaleidoscope, with constantly shifting triangles, pentagons and octagons. The colours are vivid, intense and ever-changing: pinks, magentas and turquoise hues, glowing like neon lights.The "Dreamachine" brings the brain's inner activity to the surface with flashing lights, aiming to explore how our thought processes work.

The images I'm seeing are unique to my own inner world and unique to myself, according to the researchers. They believe these patterns can shed light on consciousness itself.

They hear me whisper: "It's lovely, absolutely lovely. It's like flying through my own mind!"has raised more than £10m running for causes related to motor neurone disease, in memory of his late teammate Rob Burrow.

was a celebrated Welsh-born rugby league player from the 1950s and 1960s, who is now aged 90. A petition was launched earlier this year to award him a knighthood."We do believe rugby league has historically been poorly treated in terms of recognition in various ways, including honours lists," said a spokesman for the Rugby Football League.

There have been honours, such as CBEs and OBEs, but no knighthoods.at the ground in Leeds where they used to play.