Random Music Talk XLVI: No, studio Bad(minton) is NOT better than the live version.

[cobl04]

Also, on a personal topic, I just spoke with a graduate advisor again, and they've proposed something incredibly interesting to me, and I can't decide what to do. I can get my masters in Digital Media, and then concurrently get a certificate in Sports Media. I can't decide if that's the way I'd rather go or not. Digital Media isn't exactly where my interests lie, but holy shit would that open up my prospects.

definitely do that. Pretty important in this day and age.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Thanks for the links jive and joyful. I'll do some reading.

cool man. It was after I did some research on what it was that I was able to start enjoying them to some extent. They're weird little 'supernatural' episodes that a small percentage of the population experiences. If I had read about them, but never experienced them, I'd feel ripped off.

On a similar topic, I was even able to lucid dream once. That was awesome. I wish I could condition myself to do it more often

 

[bono_212]

On a similar topic, I was even able to lucid dream once. That was awesome. I wish I could condition myself to do it more often

I spent some time over the summer trying to get myself to do this. I got REALLY close once, to the point where I was able to say to myself, "Yes! I'm having a lucid dream!" problem was, I pretty much immediately woke up after the realization. Haven't really tried to do it again since for some reason or another. May do so now.

I actually came up with an idea for a really interesting plot surrounding the whole thing.

 

[LemonMelon]

I think it actually seems more like a subject that Thom Yorke would tackle. Even "Hypnogogia" sounds like a Radiohead song title, or a lyric. You should steal it from him.

Thanks for the links jive and joyful. I'll do some reading.

That's true. I was thinking of the witch part, but I guess even Thom has written about vampires.

Many Aphex Twin songs are influenced by lucid dreaming.

 

[cobl04]

Is that where you can control what you're doing? Like when you're having a dream and then wake up but you can go back to the same dream?

 

[joyfulgirl]

I think it actually seems more like a subject that Thom Yorke would tackle. Even "Hypnogogia" sounds like a Radiohead song title, or a lyric. You should steal it from him.

Absolutely! I can see the record cover and the crazy artwork.

It's a good word to know. The first time I heard it was when I shared a cab with a friend of a friend after an evening out in NYC. I have no idea how this came up except he was the confessional type, liked to talk about heavy personal things with people he just met. Suddenly we had this weird thing in common and he named it for me. I had never talked about it with anyone before - well, not anyone who didn't think I was crazy anyway. His stop was first and he got out and I never saw him again. But he left me with a name for that condition. It was awesome.

 

[LemonMelon]

Is that where you can control what you're doing? Like when you're having a dream and then wake up but you can go back to the same dream?

Yes, but I actually resume dreams pretty often after waking up without it being a lucid dream. It's like my subconscious really wants me to deal with this shit but it's just stupid fun crap anyway.

 

[cobl04]

I reckon I've had a few of those. Also how great is the feeling of having a nightmare and waking up realising it's not real. Conversely how shit is the feeling of waking up from a great dream and realising it's not real.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Is that where you can control what you're doing? Like when you're having a dream and then wake up but you can go back to the same dream?

More the first part, not the second. It's when you're fully aware you're in a dream and have complete conscious control over it.

 

[bono_212]

Is that where you can control what you're doing? Like when you're having a dream and then wake up but you can go back to the same dream?

More the first part, not the second. It's when you're fully aware you're in a dream and have complete conscious control over it.

Yeah, this.

That movie about lucid dreaming, for the record, I absolutely hate. I know that might be an unpopular opinion, but I was forced to watch it in one of my classes during my senior year, and I walked out at one point. Had to come back and watch it though, since we sometimes had a pop quiz on the films.

 

[Jive Turkey]

On a related note, I was once in possession of a piece of equipment that would allow me to go into another person's dreams and extract their deepest secrets. But it wasn't, strictly speaking.....legal

 

[LemonMelon]

Jive doth protest too much.

 

[cobl04]

On a related note, I was once in possession of a piece of equipment that would allow me to go into another person's dreams and extract their deepest secrets. But it wasn't, strictly speaking, legal

What??? What was it? How'd it work?

 

[bono_212]

What??? What was it? How'd it work?

You're joking or quoting something, right?

 

[LemonMelon]

There's definitely some Inception in there.

 

[lazarus]

All About the Old Hag Syndrome

I think every guy who's been with Lance's Mom has experienced this phenomenon.

 

[cobl04]

You're joking or quoting something, right?

Nope, just gullible and not quick enough to edit. Fuck

 

[Jive Turkey]

Fuck sake, cobbler

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

That movie blew.

 

[cobl04]

That movie blew.

I've heard nothing but great thing ms about it.

 

[LemonMelon]

There's nothing but great things about it.

 

[bono_212]

That movie blew.

Which movie, two have been brought up, and you couldn't possibly mean Inception...

 

[cobl04]

I really killed a good conversation haha

 

[Axver]

I feel like I read a few months ago about a band that incorporated these into one of their albums, but I can't for the life of me remember what band.

Not sure what band you might be thinking of, but I recognise part of the clip JT posted as being sampled in the first two tracks on Chroma Key's album Dead Air For Radios.

There's a numbers station sample in Porcupine Tree's Even Less too.

 

[bono_212]

Not sure what band you might be thinking of, but I recognise part of the clip JT posted as being sampled in the first two tracks on Chroma Key's album Dead Air For Radios.

There's a numbers station sample in Porcupine Tree's Even Less too.

Spin wrote a review on the album and I had it on the list of stuff I wanted to hear from this year, but until Travis' computer gets fixed, that list is lost to me, so I'd have to go home and look through all of my Spins until I find it.

 

[bono_212]

For those who may care, quote the Davey on behalf of Blaqk Audio:

Hello everyone. We’re getting very close. Within the next few weeks Bright Black Heaven will be mixed, mastered and ready to go into production. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Hopefully it will be ready in time to inspire you to dance off those Christmas Cookies.

Crossing my fingers.

 

[martha]

Remind me not to complain about my insomnia anymore.

 

[iron yuppie]

Blaqk Audio is a group whom I should try to hear.

 

[corianderstem]

... sensing presences ...

I don't think I've ever experienced sleep paralysis, but I went through a period (it still happens occasionally, but a few years ago, it happened frequently) where I would wake up absolutely convinced that someone was trying to get in through my window (which would be impossible, unless this person could fly), or, in the worst case, was already in my bedroom.

There were a few instances where I jumped out of bed and grabbed the baseball bat I have under my bed, ready to swing. I thought I would have a heart attack, and it took me a good hour before I was even remotely ready to go back to bed.

There are even old urban legends about... I think she was called the Old Hag or something...

There was an X-Files episode about that! /nerd

 

[joyfulgirl]

I don't think I've ever experienced sleep paralysis, but I went through a period (it still happens occasionally, but a few years ago, it happened frequently) where I would wake up absolutely convinced that someone was trying to get in through my window (which would be impossible, unless this person could fly), or, in the worst case, was already in my bedroom.

There were a few instances where I jumped out of bed and grabbed the baseball bat I have under my bed, ready to swing. I thought I would have a heart attack, and it took me a good hour before I was even remotely ready to go back to bed.

Oh, hon, that was just Spiderman.