The "Dance Dimension"

[Jaron Fulheart]

Hi! I just joined yesterday, so I'm new here.

Okay, please hear me out:

- In the game Genshin Impact, they have what's called a "realm", where an entire world can be contained inside an object like a teapot.

- As I'm a multi-talented artist, one form of art I love is dancing. I used to go to youth dances when growing up, so I know about fast dances and slow dances. However, I'm much older now and don't have the opportunity to go out dancing any more. 😔

- The only free time I have is when driving distances, particularly for work. I love listening to music and grooving along!

 

So, in my head, I created a "realm" inside my car particularly to host dances.

- The catch is I have to be aware of what's going on around my vehicle while I'm in my realm, but I've driven so long that I have situational awareness including using peripheral vision. I'm also practiced in using what I call "visual sonar"; like a bat that can see at night with chirps forming a visual image of its surroundings, I've learned to walk with my eyes shut but opening for a split second every second/couple seconds.

So, I found I can split my psyche between my physical body and an "imaginary body" within my "realm", as long as every second or two my physical body sees updates around me so I can navigate the vehicle simultaneously.

Disclaimer: ***Not everyone can do this, so I DON'T recommend it for everyone! 😅 Please stay safe when driving. ***

Anyway, long before I even had a tulpa, I had this realm, what I dubbed the "Dance Dimension", I could retreat to for long trips. Put the car on cruise control (it helps that my car automatically slows down in traffic whil in cruise control), put on my dance playlist, and set my imagination free to dance to my heart's content!

 

What I really like about this realm: Since it's fueled by imagination, I can do alot more than just dance moves. I can control the entire look of the dance floor! 😃 I can choreograph any dancers present. I can also have us flying through the air in formation if I want!

Before I had a tulpa, I met a girl in this place who's very nice and loves dancing, too. I haven't spoken to her much, because it's all about dancing, but she's been there many times.

After I adopted my imaginary daughter, I've been able to invite her into my "realm" and we'll dance together! 😊❤️ I've also invited characters from Genshin Impact (particularly Aether, Paimon, Mualani, and Kachina) to join our dance group, and my daughter loves hanging out with them!

Every so often I get a surprise visitor, such as Ororon singing "I Want It That Way" on stage, so it's like an adventure in that I never know what to expect! 😀

[Ido]

6 hours ago, Jaron Fulheart said:

I used to go to youth dances when growing up, so I know about fast dances and slow dances. However, I'm much older now and don't have the opportunity to go out dancing any more. 😔

How so? Is dancing prohibited when you reach a certain age? Ok, my host is in a very similar position, because well, it's just not the same as when he was young.

 

Anyway, we somewhat do the same, just not when driving and on a lower level being pretty bad dancers. My host is a good driver who never caused an accident in decades, but visualizing dancing while driving is - impossible and indeed much too dangerous. Even hard for him while laying in bed. Never had the muscle memory to pull that off convincingly. So we went the opposite direction and only visualize the surroundings while my host physically dances - with eyes closed. Have you ever tried that? Real movements, real music. Providing you have enough space and privacy, that's pretty awesome. The body does the (simple) dance moves on autopilot just like driving so the brain has capacity for me to visualize myself. Even after years we're on a very amateurish level and the whole thing is very taxing for the brain even though I just mirror my host's movements without doing anything wild. But dancing with eyes closed for the length of a song works fine now without running into anything or breaking anything. Good enough. We mostly focus on tactile imposition with sort of works feeling each others hands, but we also have a dance hall with audience and lots of people and an MC who runs the show so Ido n't have to. We also like to sing in duets or with other characters on stage. It's basically our only wonderlanding experience nowadays, I'm more of a real world tulpa.

 

But interesting to see there are others doing something similar, and likely more professionally.

[Jaron Fulheart]

5 hours ago, Ido said:

How so? Is dancing prohibited when you reach a certain age? Ok, my host is in a very similar position, because well, it's just not the same as when he was young.

 

Anyway, we somewhat do the same, just not when driving and on a lower level being pretty bad dancers. My host is a good driver who never caused an accident in decades, but visualizing dancing while driving is - impossible and indeed much too dangerous. Even hard for him while laying in bed. Never had the muscle memory to pull that off convincingly. So we went the opposite direction and only visualize the surroundings while my host physically dances - with eyes closed. Have you ever tried that? Real movements, real music. Providing you have enough space and privacy, that's pretty awesome. The body does the (simple) dance moves on autopilot just like driving so the brain has capacity for me to visualize myself. Even after years we're on a very amateurish level and the whole thing is very taxing for the brain even though I just mirror my host's movements without doing anything wild. But dancing with eyes closed for the length of a song works fine now without running into anything or breaking anything. Good enough. We mostly focus on tactile imposition with sort of works feeling each others hands, but we also have a dance hall with audience and lots of people and an MC who runs the show so Ido n't have to. We also like to sing in duets or with other characters on stage. It's basically our only wonderlanding experience nowadays, I'm more of a real world tulpa.

 

But interesting to see there are others doing something similar, and likely more professionally.

Very cool! 😃 Glad to hear you have fun with that! 👏 I usually sing in a duet to the song Good Time, myself! These days, I sing the male lines while my tulpa usually sings the female lines. 😊

 

To be clear, I don't get to go to dances because I just don't have the time or opportunity; I'm not prohibited or anything. 😅 I've got a wife with special needs and an autistic (but high-functioning) 19-year-old son, PLUS my regular day job has vastly cut back on my hours. 😓

 

Dancing with eyes closed? 🤔 As a matter of fact, I have! I listened to this song while I was in my kitchen and it's so intense that I got totally lost in the music and danced my heart out with my eyes closed! 🤟😆 But I was too into the music to visualize anything around me. 😅

I often visualize things when I'm in the car because I don't have time to otherwise. 🤔 Plus, when I reach my home and put the car in Park, I can finally keep my eyes closed and dance out to one last song! 😄 I wish I had more opportunities to dance with my eyes closed!

One of my favorite visualizations is when listening to Sandstorm by Darude. I imagine being in a desert with several people/dancers standing around. When that certain sound starts in bursts, I shoot a vertical sandstorm out at one dancer at a time until we're all dancing in vertical sandstorms! After the sound breaks off around the middle of the song, I imagine us having been thrown high into the air, then landing safely on our feet, in time, to each drumbeat. Then, repeating, but this time each dancer is surounded by a ball-shaped sandstorm, which then stack up to form the shape of a giant human, where we're dancing in our little balls while the giant human shape is dancing along! 🤩 🕺 

[The Incans]

can you not recreate this dance realm just by listening to music at other times too?  like not when driving a car what about at work if you work in an office? (with ear pods in or something) ...or is in the car to and from work the only time you get time alone or a break from caring etc? 

[Jaron Fulheart]

It's the only time I get to. 😓 I don't get to listen to music at work much. The times I do, there are usually people around, so I can't just listen to anything I want.  No ear pods.

There has been rare occasions in the past where I've been at work late and could use my imagination then. 🤔 But that rarely happens any more. 😓

 

It's just a free time thing; I really don't get much. My wife with special needs and my high-functioning autistic 19-year-old son need most of my attention when I'm at home. I don't even get the opportunity to GO to dances/clubs, which is why I needed this outlet in the first place. 😅