Itnetlolor your stuff seems interesting. I'm curious as to how that works some more I guess. I don't know if you'd be willing to share at all but if you would, then maybe that'd be cool. I get that it might be very personal, so if you'd rather not then that's cool too.
How do you make up your imaginary world thing? I'm not sure exactly how to describe it....
Naps sound cool, but yeah, I don't know if that's feasible sometimes.
Interested in hearing from some other people I guess.
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As for me, I don't know. I'm sort of trying to deal with things by retreating into an imaginary world where I can have whatever I want in my own mind. I don't know, imaginary rewards, imaginary things I can do in imaginary places. That and just biting the bullet and forcing myself to do whatever I have to in the real world, sometimes promising myself neat things in my head as a "reward."
It's been a good while since I last had a real good grasp of it, and just recently been figuring out how I had it again (having the free time again, especially provided by my freelancing, definitely helps. Being the cool uncle of another generation also helps as well.). Best I could describe it would be, the capability to 'get high' by sheer willpower, complete with lucid hallucination control, with the only side-effect being determined by your self-conscious (e.g.-how weird you might look in front of others while using it).
Well, to sleep with your eyes open is a simple trick, stare into space, and imply your eyes to roll back as if they were going into a sleep mode; imply, but not do. We're not trying to freak people out by looking possessed, unless that's your aim. I guess, a simpler way to put it is: you know how when you're in the zone when reading a good book or something, it feels like you fall into a trance? Well, basically, it's not too different from doing that.
A real trick to pull off is maintaining that while being active, like really active, working out and the like (which can result in neat stuff if done right). Let your mind nap, while your body remains active, and your spirit aware, and you can take what I had previously, and take it to another level. That should allow for waking dreams to happen more frequently; but being lucid in that state is more like harnessing your imagination more actively, rather than just merely being aware of it. A common scene I was able to render was taking the layout of my house, and see it as the interior of a massive complex or ship, with the tile floor being visible city blocks, and wall hangings being different residential areas and the like, traffic areas being, well, traffic areas in a different context (no people crossing, but instead sky-traffic), and so on and so forth. Even stuff like an entertainment center, or the couch became massive industrial/military complexes. Get yourself a deck of cards, and some skill building card buildings (or whatever else you want), and add your own stuff while at it.
What I find ironic right now is that looking back on how I described it and experienced it in the past, wasn't this a natural function when we were kids? At least, when my imagination went on overdrive, I was able to see things I was able to read and project, plain as day; and it was as simple to operate as a mental light switch. It could even had been a precursor to psychic ability; never really delved any further than the aesthetic phase (like, just about anyone else with an, at least visual, imagination), since the thought never crossed my mind.
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Don't look at your imagination (as worlds/tools/etc.) as a reward to earn, but a self-right. You don't earn what you already had since birth.
On that note, for some reason the show
Muppet Babies comes to mind. I remember they did crazy shit with their imagination. Even crazier, in the show, they could interact with each others' imagination, and modify it as they see fit. Hell, any kid's show that had those features, it makes you wonder, are those kids freaking psychic or something?
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I've fortunately had plenty of dreams recalling bits and pieces of it, and how it functioned and such. Hell, faces I haven't seen in eons have made their appearances as well (calling out to me, like old friends. Even cooler, it even appears some of them actually aged. Insane it makes me sound, I do wonder if there's more to certain 'imaginary friends' human and non/mon?). Look into the dream thread for some of the crazy stuff I've been through (like a pocket universe built like a Rubik's cube, except the rooms of this "house/'home' dimension" (like a central hub of sorts as well as living space) were the walls of the pocket-universe of the dream. More fun when you're cycling a track while someone's in a pool, just to screw with them (gravity is weird there. You can launch certain things, and certain fluids don't react to it, yet remain fluid; like the pool; yet you can play a 3-dimension game of basketball on a corner; you play on the walls as well as the floor, 3 hoops, 3 teams. 3 point shots are scored when shooting perpendicular to the target, not adjacent (2-points otherwise). Trickier gravity rules to work with).) made up the sides. To rotate/"operate" the *house* was through the use of it's positive-space counterpart, an actual Rubik's cube (comes with a will-based reset button; more for convenience reasons (visitors?), than admitting defeat; it can reload where you left off.).
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