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Hypnotized into sleep?
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| Dj Pluviose |
You ever fall asleep sometimes when listening to Trance?
Not because it bores you, no no. Like say if you're laying comfortably on a bed or couch, and you have the music playing. Sometimes you just wanna close your eyes and get lost away into the music--- drift away somewhere else.
What happens sometimes is I fall asleep. My mind gets so focused somewhere else that I didn't even notice I took a nap.
Of course it depends on what music you're listening to. But if you're listening to something settle, like "Beachball" by Nalin & Kane, it helps you really relax your mind.
You guys ever have that, or perhaps it's just me? Is it even possible to be hypnotized into sleep? |
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| jvs |
No. At least not literally. Metaphorically speaking yeah.
But let me ask you a question -- what is so good about your thoughts drifting away? What is so good about letting yourself fall into a sleep while listening to your favorite type of music? Isn't immersion, the opposite of what you describe here, the very point of art? Isn't the best art that art which immerses you completely, to the point of you forgetting about yourself and your life, to the point of you never willing to go back to your "regular life" again?
I mean, let's take sex for example, which itself is not an art, but which can nevertheless be used as an adequate analogy: do you enjoy falling asleep while ing your girlfriend? or do you instead prefer to be completely immersed in her body, in the movements she makes, sounds she makes, in the bodily interaction that takes place between the two of you? and do you not want that to last as long as possible, ideally infinitely, to never end? -- I mean, yeah, once you're done with it (since unfortunately it can't last forever), you'd like to fall asleep next to her lol, but that comes SECOND, and if you were only to sleep next to her without actually, you know, PENETRATING HER or EJACULATING, wouldn't that be inferior?
It is thus mind-boggling that one would ever want to praise the sleep-inducing effect of anything, let alone art. I mean, for 's sake, what are you, an insomniac? And if you are, why not simply get adequate drugs to deal with it, or whatever other available treatment there is? But wait a moment, isn't insomnia, being almost perfectly synonymous with immersion (since immersion leads to insomnia, get it?), the goal of art? So whatever way we look at it, sleep-induction is THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT'S GOOD: it is bad. I MEAN WHO THE WANTS TO WASTE THEIR WHOLE ING LIFE BY ING SLEEPING? People are already ing wasting their lives by engaging in these little boring herd rituals that we designate as "job" and "school" that you have to be really bold to take it to the extreme by declaring that the very point of life is to SLEEP, SLEEP FOREVER, TO ALL ETERNITY.
But of course, I'm well aware that very few hipsters are this bold, this extreme, so what this leaves me with is the assumption that there is another meaning of the word "hypnotic" as understood by the hipsters. But as we shall soon see it boils down to the same thing. Because, you see, the other meaning of the word "hypnotic" isn't exactly different from the first one -- it's only that it's a little bit less honest, that is to say, a little bit more hypocritical, a little bit more FULL OF , and it's exactly because of that that it APPEARS different from the first one. So while hipsters do NOT APPEAR extreme, they ARE, in fact, truly extreme -- they just don't ing see the implications of their ideas! (since all they care about is sign-value, remember)
So, hipsters, being unable to legitimize their rituals in the eyes of the others by admitting that their music is sleep-inducing, go on to argue that their music is "unique", in that its structure is different from that of the conventional music (as if that's not what genres are about in the first place for 's sake). So what this boils down to is the so-called "hypnotic arrangement" lol which is based on repetition and is supposedly different from the structure of older genres. But repetition, you see, as every child would tell you, is bad, it is the definition of boring, and boredom, being precursor to sleep, is sleep-inducing. And the "smarter" hipster quickly realizes this and rationalizes it by saying that the repetition is merely apparent, that the music only appears repetitive, whereas, if you actually paid close attention to it, you would see the opposite, that the music is not repetitive at all, moreover, that is engaging! And it's true, this music isn't literally repetitive, BUT WHO THE EVER SAID IT WAS? The problem was and it still is that the few meaningful, interesting changes there are, are scattered throughout the desert that is the rest of the music. And who the is willing to PUT UP with so much repetition only to get an interesting change once in a blue moon? I'm gonna tell you who -- slaves. And for you to properly understand this, dear readers, you will have to be familiar with Nietzschean philosophy. You see, the stupid face, the "smarter" hipster (for "smarter" hipster is in fact less smart than "dumber" hipster, you see, since with slave morality everything becomes inverted, and everything that was previously positive now becomes negative and vice versa -- this is extremely important to understand! think of how larger negative numbers are less than smaller negative numbers).. so, what the stupid face does to justify his tolerance for boredom is argue that he's doing it for the reward! the tiny little change that occurs after 3 minutes of repetition! And the more he puts up with this , regardless of how interesting the actual change at the end of the monotony is, the more he feels like BEING A GOOD BOY. I mean, for what other reason could all this repetition possibly be in there? If parts of a song are boring, then why not cut them out? Wouldn't that make a much better song, even if short one? The idea that putting up with boredom in order to obtain rewards is good is only something a slave could come up with, since slaves are, from the very young age, thought of such idiocies as "hard work" (idiocies without which they would go mad, since they are subhumans i.e. powerless kind of humans, weaklings). I mean, isn't exactly the point of "jobs" and "schools" to put up with boredom in order to earn moneys and degrees? It is thus no wonder that a slave could easily come up with such an interpretation, disregarding whether the slave himself is truly enjoying the "hard work" he's doing while listening to the music or not. What remains true is that such interpretations betray a HARDCORE ING SLAVE, which all hipsters are. Now, on the other hand, a strong man, that is to say a noble man, might enjoy a couple of such tracks, however, a noble man would NEVER argue that "hard work" is good but rather that the song is not "hard work" at all, that it's not repetitive at all, that it's completely misleading to call such a track repetitive since it's full of interesting changes; either that or he will simply state that it's worth skipping to interesting sections lol. A noble man does not consider repetition good! Nor does he consider simplicity better than complexity! A noble man is a man of taste for he's the one who's capable of acquiring taste for he is the man of truly free choice.
And now comes the question of why such pathetically repetitive tracks exist in the first place.. and the answer is quite straightforward: it's thanks to pathetically talentless s who resent the masters and their well-established conventions (since it's just way too ing damn hard to stick to these conventions!) and who, thanks to democracy, end up bungling all sorts of crap that in turn ends up attracting like-minded s, like-minded hipsters, who then come up with all sorts of retarded, fake interpretations of what makes a work of art good.
And that is why we have "experimental" (euphemism for meaningless) and "hypnotic" (euphemism for sleep-inducing) music today.
By the way, it's worth clearing up that repetition isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's only bad if what we repeat is a simplistic pattern. If we, however, repeat a complex pattern then it's by no means bad! It's in fact something we want, something we do on our own when we put a single track on repeat. This is the very effect of complexity -- it makes the track harder to consume, it makes it harder to memorize, to master all the patterns on the first listen, so we keep coming back to the track till we fully consume it, till it becomes just another background track for us. A short but complex loop, such as that of Aphex Twin for example, can be enjoyable for a while, but that, of course, doesn't mean that longer loops aren't better (they are, since they allow for more complexity). |
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| Subtle |
| I know exactly what u mean, it doesnt happen often.. but when it does i really feel that im in Trance, usually those tracks or compilations becomes personal favorites afterwards. |
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