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[[File:KIDS Prototype.jpeg|300px|thumb|Hodgeson explains KIDS to Lain in the [[Layer 06|similarly-titled episode]].]]

[[File:KIDS Prototype.jpeg|300px|thumb|Hodgeson explains KIDS to Lain in the [[Layer 06|similarly-titled episode]].]]

A [[conspiracy|project]] that lures children with the online game called [[PHANTOMa]] in order to harness their innate psychic ability to produce phenomena. Closely linked with the research of [[Professor Hodgeson]].

The KID System or [[Wikipedia:RAS_syndrome|KIDS System]] is a psychotronic device that harnesses and amplifies the power of childrens' latent psi abilities. It was created by [[Professor Hodgeson]] for the Kensington Experiment that occurred around 15 years prior to the present day, present time events of ''Serial Experiments Lain''. After the Kensington Experiment's disastrous results, Hodgeson destroyed the machine and deleted its schematics, but the [[Knights]] somehow recovered the data. The original KID system used peripherals called Outer Receptors to collect the psi, but the Knights redesigned the system to work without Outer Receptors. They probably achieved this by distributing specially designed [Taro's NAVI|gaming HaniNAVI]] and through the [[PHANTOMa]] MMO.

It is the title and focus of [[Layer 06]], when the collective power of the children successfully summons a giant image of [[Lain]] into the sky, and the Professor discusses his experimental findings with Lain (as a metaphor of Lain researching the KIDS effect online).

KIDS is the title and focus of [[Layer 06]], when the collective power of the children successfully summons a giant image of [[Lain]] into the sky, and the Professor discusses his experimental findings with Lain (as a metaphor of Lain researching the KIDS effect online).

The project is likely used as an example to illustrate the power of the [[Wired]] and of consciousness over the [[real world]].

The creators of SEL may have named the Kensington Experiment as an oblique reference to Kensington, New Hampshire, the famous location of a [[Wikipedia:Exeter_incident|purported UFO sighting]] in 1965.

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