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Occasionally, for reasons I don't fully grasp yet, a particular bit of music or other sound will 'throw' us into a really vivid otherworld almost instantly (it's actually quite a lot of fun). Does anyone else ever experience this? If so, what songs trigger it for you, and what do you see?

 

For us,

had a dramatic effect - grimy dark railyard underneath the Lion's Gate (pretty sure the location doesn't exist in the waking world), thrashed warehouses, the whole bit, and three wholecars and a lot of empty paint cans later, we had our masterpiece done: in giant silver lettering, the phrase "all you see is crime in the city" - with the word 'crime' crossed out and 'ponies' scrawled over it...

Rei: more than a tulpa-she's a crisis counselor, an art therapist, a dietician, a relationship coach, a team morale expert, an athlete, an adventurer, a hawt wife, an incredible lover, an amazing mom, my best friend.

 

Tove: she's not a little tigress anymore! She's still the go-to gal for soccer advice and creative inspiration, especially monster design and all things cinematic...congrats on your engagement!

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Melian and I do the Melian Show, day dream adventures in her wonderland, while I jog and listen to music. Music definitely is a factor in imaging and interacting with her. When I dream about her, there is often theme music to the dream as well.

 

~Mistgod

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Rei: more than a tulpa-she's a crisis counselor, an art therapist, a dietician, a relationship coach, a team morale expert, an athlete, an adventurer, a hawt wife, an incredible lover, an amazing mom, my best friend.

 

Tove: she's not a little tigress anymore! She's still the go-to gal for soccer advice and creative inspiration, especially monster design and all things cinematic...congrats on your engagement!

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The path to Shpongolia started here.

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Awesome!

 

~Mistgod


 

Thank you so much for sharing this with Melian and I! I found reading that very moving actually. THAT is the kind of thing that gets to me! My gods, that is what having a mental companion is all about! Imaginary adventures and companionship and just feeling inspired!

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For some reason, the most weird, yet atmospheric songs on my phone always give me the most intense, vivid forcing sessions; However, you get the most effects out of it when you close your eyes, and listen to it with the best ear/headphones you have (Sorry if that's obvious, I just wanted to point that out in case you've only begun forcing with music recently).

 

Seriously, I forced while listening to

on repeat only around 4-5 times, and my forcing was so intensely-vivid and emotionally grasping that when I opened my eyes, I felt like I just finished a whole 2-hour forcing session. If I tried to describe all of what happened during the first time I forced to this song, I would be writing this post all day (Which is why my progress thread is taking so long...). I probably didn't make as much progress as an actual 2-hour session, but it made it very clear that the right music can improve your forcing sessions, for me at least: it's probably different for everyone. It's definitely worth trying and experimenting with, though.

 

Another song that made my forcing interesting was

, with Marillion's
,
, and
also giving interesting sessions. Easter was impacting since it seems to be Lavender/Kayliegh's (We're still deciding on a name. We're both total Marillion freaks, if you didn't notice) favourite song, since that's what was stuck in my head when I made her. Berlin and After Me have a pretty clear and direct, yet specific and in-depth story to them, which really makes for some interesting events.

 

Also, all of the links here go to Youtube. I suggest playing songs on Spotify if you try to force with them, since you'll get better quality. I also suggest supporting the artist and buying the actual CD if you like the music, of course :).

 

Also, here are some songs that I haven't tried forcing to yet, but I predict will make for some very interesting "Audio Adventuring":

 

Dream Theater - Wait For Sleep/Learning to Live

Pink Floyd - The whole Dark Side of the Moon album (How did I just think of this!?)

 

A lot of these songs have many different-sounding sections in them, and are pretty long, so I think these will be interesting to try. The slashes mean that the two songs that are connected, since the first quickly transitions to the next one.

 

Finally, I don't think it would be too bad of an idea having this thread moved to General Discussion.

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today

Tomorrow will be dying."

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I haven't really experienced what you're talking about, but I've thought about something similar.

 

Recently my girlfriend and I went to see a high school production of Cats. It was pretty bad, but I enjoyed it lots anyway. It's been over a decade since I've seen it. (Actually, none of the actors in that particular production had been born yet the first time I'd seen it -- I'm so old!)

 

It occurred to me that Cats is relatively unique in being represented entirely in music, and having such a large cast, and taking place entirely in one setting.

 

Michelle Belanger suggested a wonderland should be very small so that you could become intimately acquainted with every detail and enter it in your dreams. She suggested something no more than 20 feet in diameter. The Cats junkyard is a bit larger than that, but you have to bear in mind that everything is 3x scale -- it's a much smaller place than it looks.

 

J.H. Brennan and W. E. Butler both suggested listening to someone reading (or a recording of) a description of your wonderland. There's no description of the scene in the music of Cats, but it's music I'm so familiar with that it evokes images of the junkyard and the cats.

 

What I'm saying is that the Cats soundtrack is particularly well-suited to being an audio adventure -- at least if you're as familiar with the performance as I am. It'll be pretty much the same thing happening every time, but that's ok because the plot is a ritualized ceremony -- it's supposed to be something that happens again and again with only small variations.

 

Thing is, it doesn't fit Fenchurch well, as she's not a cat. Also, I can't find my soundtrack, and I've only managed to dig up the second CD at my favorite used bookstore.

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

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J.H. Brennan and W. E. Butler both suggested listening to someone reading (or a recording of) a description of your wonderland. There's no description of the scene in the music of Cats, but it's music I'm so familiar with that it evokes images of the junkyard and the cats.

 

What a cool idea! What is neat is that it is not only does it help you personally visualize the wonderland, but the reader does too at the same time! There we go again, the shared wonderland idea that so fascinated me. BTW, isn't that what all fiction books do, create wonderlands in the mind of the reader?

 

What I'm saying is that the Cats soundtrack is particularly well-suited to being an audio adventure ... the plot is a ritualized ceremony -- it's supposed to be something that happens again and again with only small variations.

 

That is an interesting point about ritual and repetition. Rituals are predictable structure that helps order our behavior in a seemingly chaotic world. The repetition of recognizable processes, ceremony, drama plays, music and prayers reinforces emotions and concepts and invokes imagery. It makes sense that ritual would be an important tool in visualization for mental constructs. I hadn't considered it that much yet.

 

I am understanding a bit more why some people make smaller wonderlands that are more immutable and predictable.

 

I have described Melian's dreamscape as a sort of ever changing stage or movie set or "holodeck." That is true for the Melian Show adventures. BUT Melian does have a more permanent and recognizable Dreamscape Mansion (my dream mansion, she uses some of it LOL). The main rooms are highly detailed, predictable and recognizable.

 

I do find that music conjures up images from Melian's dreamscape and the Melian Show. The latest one is the theme from Fifty Shades of Gray, not because of any sexual content, but because it is a good song. I had a sci fi dream about Melian riding a elephant-like alien on an exotic planet and for some reason that was the theme song for that dream. Now, every time I hear it, there's Melian riding that elephant-alien.

 

~Mistgod

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