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it is a daily song journal i've been doing for the sake of self reflection. i choose a song i like and some lyrics from it as a discord status.
if you want one daily song recommendation from someone who is into generally abnormal but still catchy and stimulating songs, you might enjoy it.
i won't talk about it here beyond this. i hope those who are interested enjoy.
tip for the easily distracted subjects during files or sessions: instead of white noise or binaurals, choose an ambient album.
unlike binaurals or white noise, ambient albums progress and continually provide a unqiue stimuli for your brain to chew on between the gaps that would normally let too many thoughts take over.
my personal favorite ambient album for trance is And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid.
if this helps you, let me know. have a nice day.
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a further note on this!
any music, depending on the circumstances, can improve your hypnotic experience. yes, including noise walls and the heaviest or most energetic metal you can think of.
here is a list of albums I have been put under (very deeply) while listening to (at least the ones I remember), see if you know any:
Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest SMILE! :D by Porter Robinson 3D Country by Geese 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs CLPPNG by clipping. the first glass beach album by glass beach The Impossible Kid by Aesop Rock Nature Tapes by Lemon Demon The Seer by Swans
If you don't know any of them, there's links to all of them there. Check any (maybe especially 3D Country) and you may understand how odd the idea of trancing to those may be.
while truly any songs will work and affect and often better the trance, there are a few qualities to what songs or albums would work best for you:
That's the most important one, but here are some lesser qualities that do help:
2. The album maintains some relative consistency in sound. This would include volume and "sound font" to borrow a word from retro music.
3. You actually like the album. Fairly obvious, but it helps.
4. The music lacks any wake up trigger phrases. It doesn't tend to actually wake you, but it does make your brain make a decision to reject a suggestion, which can be a bit of a rock in the way. This goes the same for things like drop triggers, but I personally like when that happens.
5. The music is not linked to any strong feelings of depression, trauma, anxiety, and so on. This is not always a problem for subjects, but if you have an album you only listen to when feeling sad or one linked to something like a breakup, it would be wise to not play it while extra vulnerable to things.
lastly, i think i want to recommend some albums that, while not ambient, would be great to try out hypnosis while listening to (i also just love giving music suggestions):
An indie folk album with very flowing, natural instrumentation, a peaceful atmosphere, and some very nice textures. Tracks like Simulation Swarm and the title track would be some special things to look out for.
This is basically an ambient album, but one with very very nice textures and panning sounds. I listened to this in full while in bed once without any trance at all.
This jazz record is very long as it is the definition of a flow state. Every song feels like a rush of notes forming a perfect gradient of musical ideas to suit your mind state.
You'll just have to hear this one. Very wild and forward thinking, and has a lot of unique soundscapes.
That being said, I hope you enjoy! Send me your thoughts if you try this out, that's an order! <3
I don't know if this has been said before, but Everywhere at the End of Time is one of the most interesting examples of mass suggestibility and psychological priming that I've ever seen.
Some people seem to think that suggestions are only something that can be done with trance, but it's simply a core part of human communication. If you've ever gone into the comments of a youtube video that you liked and read a bunch of positive comments and left liking the video more after, you've been suggested.
If someone has ever anonymously insulted you and altered the way you saw yourself for a while, you've been suggested. If you've ever been a victim of losing "the game" or told your breathing is now manual, you've been suggested.
Suggesting someone is the mere act of summoning an idea in their mind that alters their behavior or perception. Even for a few particular series of hypnotic files, there seems to be intentional campaigns run to make them seem "dangerous" and "too effective" to plant the idea in the mind of anyone who listens to it.
In a weirdly similar sense, the buzz around Everywhere at the End of Time is essentially a self-sustaining feedback loop of suggestion. I am not saying that the album is not an experience or is without artistic merit or doesn't affect someone in any way, necessarily. However, I would be much more surprised if listening to repeated degrading loops of old music for 6 hours doesn't exhaust someone's brain.
The idea of it simulating dementia, however, is complete nonsense. I don't know where the idea started, but it seems to be in that perfect zone of "a little hard to believe, but easy to find 'proof' of as you listen". The moment someone finds themselves exahausted from hours of this album, find their brain challenged in a way it normally isn't, suddenly that seed of an idea planted in their head starts to sprout. And, as it continues and the concrete effects mix with the person's paranoia about the suggestion, it will eventually become as real as if it genuinely was. Over the course of 6 hours, at least.
And, once this "effect" was observed enough, it was given cultural legitimacy through personal testimony en masse and pseudoscientific "video essayists" trying to find these magical elements that simulate fuckin dementia. It's so fascinating to see happen in real time, and an interesting isolated example of how an idea can affect not just persons, but people.
Luckily for us, suggestions have a tendency to fade. Your breathing went back automatic again, after all.
nothing worse feeling than randomly finding the best song you've heard in months only for the artist to have never made anything close to that good ever again
