@asvjerry , they used to call me Lemmon Head.
Critical listening and altered states
Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
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@hilde45 ....and when have I been brief about Anything? *LOL* ...that occurs only on the dark side of the sun..... :) (That being a decent 'sort of..." ) Off to pu Chinese....prep'ing for the NWO....*ironic G* |
I'm very glad for you. If it works optimally and you enjoy it fully then I don't suppose it really has any limitations. That's wonderful! And low cost! |
It’s been many decades since I listened to music stoned and back then, I had neither the interest in this hobby nor the requisite $. The music did seem to be more vivid than when I listened without "enhancements", but I was not engaged in critical assessment mode at the time. I did combine drugs with drawing and creative writing, back then, and what I typically found was that next day, the drawings and poems were not nearly as original or interesting as they’d seemed while under the influence. I tend to regard thinking as generally an either/or proposition -- dominated by either left or right brain in a given moment. This may be erroneous. I’m not a scientist. I’m trying to imagine a chemically-induced state in which one’s awareness is both freed from habitual assumptions yet still capable of reliable perceptions/judgments and I'm not able to do so. Such a state would seem more easily accomplished via meditation. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible; simply that my experience hasn’t extended in that direction.
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Having one drink or a little more could do it, or some concomitantly small dosage of something else. Maybe we're different, but I don't shift dramatically from "reliable perceptions/judgements" to "unreliable" if the amount is carefully considered. |
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