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___kaz
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 14:35:55
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This revelation was building up in me for quite a while, and only now I believe I found the proper way to describe it. I was dancing to the later bit of BLT&Nadi's set at the Haldolium party. I had been digging like a madman throughout the whole party up until then, and I had "allowed" myself to close my eyes and go with the music for longer and longer periods of time throughout the party (switching my focus from the people and the deco to purely the music), and then, with my eyes closed, I started to play with my breathing. Focus it on different parts of my lungs... feeling it move into my body. During this time, I had begun to see vivid visual hallucinations induced at the music's rhythm, starting as mild kaleidoscopic visions, but slowly began to grow stronger, and from geometrical flowers I moved on to an empty boxing ring, and from there to a huge metallic egg (colored between silver and white), and then I entered that egg, and saw vivid colorful visions of bubbles and geometric shapes flying around me.
This was not induced by LSD, as I had not taken any during the party. I was under the influence of other substances, but through my experience with drugs, this one was closer to a tryptamine effect than to anything else, and I had not taken a substance of that nature for a few months now.
This has not been the first time this has happened to me, but the breathing games I played made it stronger and more vivid than ever before.
I feel that moving to the music (even without... ermm, "external" influences), focusing on it, and breathing it (the little I know about yoga has been enlightening to me as to the breathing process during dancing, the similarities are there) causes me to reach a level of concentration that can be reached through meditation (or by other means, but this is the only one I can say I studied a bit in depth), and even at a higher level than I have reached through that.
Has anyone other than me had strong experiences of this sort during parties, induced by the music and concentration? |
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___migraineboy
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 14:57:07
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i never had this kind of experience.
but i sure would like to have it.
what do u mean "play with my breathing"??? |
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___kaz
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 16:45:21
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In meditation, one of the simplest forms of detaching yourself from the outside world is to at first, focus on your breathing in order to block out the other senses. I know that in Yoga, this is much more developed. A deep breathing process in a slow rhythm fades away on it's own (you can sleep with sounds that occur in a pattern in the background... you just stop hearing them at a certain point).
Now, can you visualize the major movements of air in a storm, or any movement of air (it splitting on a wing like seen on TV for instnace) for that matter? Now, try and imagining what happens inside your body, from the moment the air enters it, the way it flows, the small obstacles that cause it to swirl around, that natural innacuracy in movement... until it reaches your lungs.
Now, try to control your breathing, so that the air swirls around and touches a certain part of your lungs. This is a bit tricky (and doubtlessly, has a psychological factor in it), but by doing this, you can focus entirely on a single point - INSIDE your body, and from there, build on from there. From there, the progression of the music will bring a progression in your internal perspective. Everyone who dances at parties until the late morning is in that trance, induced by the music, to a certain degree.
I'm just beginning to study this. It fascinates me. The implications here are very interesting (meditation through dancing), and I'll continue exploring this.... if anyone has been in a similar phase, I would really thank you for guidance as to how to take this deeper.
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___mascalita
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 17:37:45
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in yoga this breathing excersizes called pranayama. the air we breath is an energy that goes inside the body and called prana. |
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___Trip-
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 19:26:09
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Mate :)
didn't try the breathing excersizes yet - but this sounds very believable man :) I'm happy for you to have this.... maybe because of you being such a 'Junkie' (!) left some substances in yer body that you release while doing whatever that you are doing.... - I"m clean - I'll try it out also....
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___kaz
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 19:35:50
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Philip man, I love you and all, but, despite the famous ("ravers aren't junkies! they dress cool!") saying, I am not a junky, due to the fact that I am not addicted to a substance (other than caffeine, which unfortunately will probably kill me one day... ;)).
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 19:37:38
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You know I was kidding right? it doesn't show that way :) |
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___MichaelA
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 21:08:27
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Umm... This is new to you? :)
Sometimes I just sit in my room - turn up the music, lie on the bed... Close my eyes.
Concentrate on the music - and then all of the stuff Asaf describes happens :) |
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___kaz
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 21:37:03
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Well, this is the first time that it took over my entire visual spectrum (true 3D depth, non-patterned, non-uniform... hallucinative vibrance similar to tryptamines, white the dominant color). This was not done by forcing the brain to do so, but rather like a meditative state - allowing the brain to flow freely (it can go much farther that way)... |
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___MichaelA
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Posted : Jan 27, 2002 22:43:32
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Same here - just mine is usually [color=Green]green[/color].
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___Maxim_Kai.
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Posted : Jan 28, 2002 12:08:47
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Once i was laying on my bed, listening to Hallucinogen.. Twisted
You know, something happened, i was just flying, i saw a spiral that was changing colors. No the best fucking picturesque view, but i didn't hit anything even alkohol. I just saw it.
So, the spiral whirled and turned flying. I didn't realize that too much, just relaxed and waited what will be next. When Shamanix went to end, there is such a melody in the end - very uplifting and asserting and fun maybe... but when it came to end something just flashed very brightly and i jumped up on my sofa breathing hard and trying to understand where am i...
it was very dark in the room and Snarling Black Mabel was the only one thing that attached me to this world. Fuck, was that a flashback? Or is that the power of music? What do we know about brain and brain frequencies... Maybe beat made my brain work in some other... dunno how to say, mayb e speed or something..
Tell what u think.
Peace
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___kaz
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Posted : Jan 28, 2002 12:13:25
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actually, well known fact: sensory depravation helps hallucinative states. In a dark place, behind closed eyelids, you will see more than in a bright place. When you let your mind drift, it can go further than by forcing it to go forward. People who have been into this for years can reach very strong visions through meditative states, it's a matter of mental discipline on a certain level, and mental freedom on another.
I believe most people in this forum have an above the average mental freedom. As for mental discipline... well, that's where the music comes in. |
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___MentalProjection
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Posted : Jan 29, 2002 11:00:35
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[quote]Umm... This is new to you? :)
Sometimes I just sit in my room - turn up the music, lie on the bed... Close my eyes.
Concentrate on the music - and then all of the stuff Asaf describes happens :)
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Ohhh yes this is breakfast ;)
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