In Philip K. Dick's novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1965), consumers immerse themselves into an artificial soap opera world, which appears virtually real, by taking a drug called Can-D. In "Wild Palms", the pseudo-realistic effect is enhanced by a drug called "Mimezine". In "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", a new drug appears on the market which enables its supplier, Palmer Eldritch, to affect the consumer's perception and personally appear in his altered reality. In "Wild Palms", senator Kreutzer wants the "Go chip" implantated into his body, which as his sister Josie explains will turn him into a hologram and enable him to enter everyone's dreams.