badsykes

[badsykes]

1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
job: network admin, hobbies: photography,astronomy,psychology,off road, going out in nature, meditation, controlled trance

2. Where are you from?
Romania, Constanta

3. Who is your favorite author?
Asimov, Horace Walpole,Antoine de saint exupery,Ann radcliffe


4. What are your favorite films?
(no specific order) Elina - Som om jag inte fanns, The ninth gate, Alice in Wonderland,Ondskan, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, tim burton movies


5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
Dark Sanctuary

6. At your funeral?
Dark Sanctuary

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
I want to die caught in my own ethernal imagination

8. What kind of casket would you want?
i don't care

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
winter and mountain outfit

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
the discovery period where the kids have no brakes when it comes to searching the enviroment.(Called Alpha state)

11. What's your favorite band?
(no specific order) Dark Sanctuary, Artesia, Elend, Iron Maiden, Mantus, Katatonia, Hammerfall,Aythis,Avrigus,Daemonia Nymphe,Axel Rudi Pell,Finntroll,Sentenced,Lake of tears,Haggard,Rotting Christ, Silentium, Grave Flowers, Rome,Edenbridge,

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
maritime university in electrotechnics (kinda borring)

13. Why did you join?
After reading some gothic books, seeing churches,listen music this culture gets me more quiet and serene, also an overwhelming feeling of deep connection when i am in a gothic place...I hope this site will get me deeper in understanding this culture

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Male

I am very empathic, pretty emotional and sensitive.My mind have a taste in fantasy, abstract, quiet, serene, mystery places and enviroments...
Also some video games that made a strong stamp on me are Silent Hill series,The Path,Dragon Origins (most architecture is gothic)

[Nephilim72]

What is controlled trance? And for that matter, how do you "control" a state of trance?

Welcome! Are there specific songs by Dark Sanctuary that you would prefer at your wedding or funeral?

[badsykes]

There are two ways to enter in a trance state.Either you try to think about what you want to explore either you let your subconscious put what movie he wants.This is how the theme of dreams coincide with something real that bothers you and try to give you answers.
For funeral i would love the song Les Memoires Blessees.It makes me cry and feel powerful emotions.
For wedding i think Summoning of the muse..There are so many songs that i like from this band...It makes me feel .... rising.Also this one hell of hard question for me..

[Nephilim72]

Well trance is "a half conscious state in which the ability to voluntarily function is suspended".

Originally Posted by badsykes

theme of dreams

So...controlled trance is fancy way to say "daydreaming"? I've never heard of a controlled trance at any point in my life, that is why I ask, in which case I, too, daydream quite a bit.

I suppose if it works for you, however, all the better.

Good choice from Dead Can Dance, that's an old favorite of mine.

[badsykes]

No it's not daydreaming.The "trance" that i say is what tibetan do.The trance itself is like a powerfull dream and you dream too.Maybe you had some very real dreams that are so bothering that you wake up from them.When i enter in trance i don't go to sleep.I just sit somewhere quiet and i let my body sink.I want only the "dream" and not the sleep + dream..Also this deep trance state contains the time compresion that you may heard.15 minutes of "dream" may equal with an hour or two so after you wake you from trance you will have the feeling that you spend long time there but the watch will contradict ya..This things are part of us naturally to get answers and insight but society is afraid to teach this stuff in school for all of us because it makes the individual too powerfull and uncontrolable.Everything is in the mind, you can hide it and they can't tax for this..This is one of the reasons why i consider this human society a big lie and until i die i will always be suspicious.I recommend reading Arthur C Clarke short story "The lion from Comarre" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lio..._Fall_of_Night
good luck.

[Nephilim72]

Glad to see a vivid understanding of it. I've gone through a few trance states as well at some points in life, although I wouldn't say I'm "too powerful" or "uncontrollable", that just sounds silly to me.

Like a form of meditation, in a way. But again, regardless, if it works for you then all the better.

[badsykes]

Meditation is for preparing your mind.Meditation is very apropiate like the effect when you go to sleep.To actually make the sleep the mind gets calming more and more until you actually sleep.

[MacabreHellgrave]

Nice to meet you.

[badsykes]

Nice to meet you too..