Has anyone else begun to spontanously imagestream whilst photoreading? Shouldn't I be paying attention to the divergent page as I flip?
My hallucinations (visualisation + believability = hallucination) just go on and on sometimes, then like a dream they disappear quickly, so I can't example them here.
I recall trying PR when I first read the book 2 years ago and crying like crazy while reading the second part of War and Peace. I had a fairly good idea it was something to do with the death of three-quarters of the characters. I didn't feel so much like regular reading it after that!
I've long suspected that the inner mind finds regular reality a bit suppressive. Like the Force, the onconscious sort of slides around or under the everyday. Possibly the shamanist quality of moving through different worlds is connected to the inner mind.
I recently had a dream when a bunch of fey beings from the inner mind were having this enormous decadent party. I started to wake up in the middle of all this and they fled, grabbing the scenery and stages and costumes off on little wheels back into the inner mind.
I notice my sensation of sentience when I fall asleep moves backwards into my limbic region. Sometimes I hallucinate the 'little door' in the mind, way in the dark in the nether of the skull.
I try and avoid manipulating my images. When these glamourous imagery of the unconscious cranks up, I find it invariably too disturbing and unpredictable - both very beautiful or very terrible - and way too realistic as well. Once I tried to 'clean the images up', make it more acceptable to my personality, and then the images dimmed and it faded back into a normal visualisation. It kills the spur of the moment richness of images to change them.
Watching the movie Moulin Rouge recently I understood why we don't have vivid visualisations as a general rule in our culture. I asked my inner mind "How can I have mental movies that are this vivid?" and my inner mind replied (visually and kinesthetically), "You can, but you run the risk of being accussed of being insane in the culture you live in." Volently strange hallucinations are really not de riguer in our culture, although for myself, I very much wish I had more of them.
