Do not listen to Coil when going to sleep at night. If you do, be prepared for some freaky dreaming.
Last night while falling asleep I listened to Coil, and it produced one of the most bizarre dreams I've had in awhile. I found myself trapped inside of an enormous building. It was deserted except for myself and few other people who were trapped there too. There were staircases that went nowhere and rooms that transported you into another dimension. We had a map to help us navigate through the maze-like network of strange rooms, but it was incomplete. Sometimes one of us would enter a room and that person would simply vanish, only to reappear in some other part of the building. It happened to me a couple of times; to the others it looked like I disappeared, but I was still in the room. I was just in another dimension where they could not see me.
There were also spider-like robotic creatures scattered throughout the building. If someone was stung by one of them, they would enter a zombie-like state and become addicted to the creature's venom. The only thing we had to protect ourselves were these huge modified guns that fired D-cell batteries. Shooting the batteries at them caused a small nuclear type explosion that destroyed them.
At one point I made it outside but the whole world was black and white. The sky, trees, and everyday objects were colorless. I knew then that I was still held captive by the building somehow. The dream ended at that point and I woke up thinking "what the hell was that!?" Weird.
So was it Coil's music that caused this dream? Maybe. Here is some stuff on them from wikipedia:
"Their music was 'said to have been produced under a variety of technological, spiritual, and meteorological conditions which the band felt to be magickally significant.'
Coil's level of detail and non-traditional approach to music is found in all aspects of their work. They've been known to utilise the following methods and exotic devices:
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)
Ritual hallucinogens
Sleep deprivation
Lucid dreaming
Sidereal sound
Granular synthesis
Tidal shifts
John Dee-like methods of scrying
Mistakes made by their electronic equipment, i.e. glitch music
Synchronizing their studio to the SETI project
Chaos theory
Archaic/obsolete modular synthesizers
The experimental ANS photoelectronic synthesizer
A Theremin
A Moog synthesizer
A morbid electronic shakuhachi
Even their distribution and marketing techniques were left-of-center, sometimes producing only as many as 99 copies of an album, making them collectors' items among devotees. Including things such as 'art objects', blood stains and sigil-like autographs in the packaging of their albums, they claim this makes their work more personal for true fans, turning their records into something akin to occultish artifacts. "
They also scored the music for the first Hellraiser movie but the studio executives ultimately decided not to use it because they thought it was "too creepy, too bizarre".
So there you have it. I'll have to try it again sometime and see if it has the same effect.
Last night while falling asleep I listened to Coil, and it produced one of the most bizarre dreams I've had in awhile. I found myself trapped inside of an enormous building. It was deserted except for myself and few other people who were trapped there too. There were staircases that went nowhere and rooms that transported you into another dimension. We had a map to help us navigate through the maze-like network of strange rooms, but it was incomplete. Sometimes one of us would enter a room and that person would simply vanish, only to reappear in some other part of the building. It happened to me a couple of times; to the others it looked like I disappeared, but I was still in the room. I was just in another dimension where they could not see me.
There were also spider-like robotic creatures scattered throughout the building. If someone was stung by one of them, they would enter a zombie-like state and become addicted to the creature's venom. The only thing we had to protect ourselves were these huge modified guns that fired D-cell batteries. Shooting the batteries at them caused a small nuclear type explosion that destroyed them.
At one point I made it outside but the whole world was black and white. The sky, trees, and everyday objects were colorless. I knew then that I was still held captive by the building somehow. The dream ended at that point and I woke up thinking "what the hell was that!?" Weird.
So was it Coil's music that caused this dream? Maybe. Here is some stuff on them from wikipedia:
"Their music was 'said to have been produced under a variety of technological, spiritual, and meteorological conditions which the band felt to be magickally significant.'
Coil's level of detail and non-traditional approach to music is found in all aspects of their work. They've been known to utilise the following methods and exotic devices:
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)
Ritual hallucinogens
Sleep deprivation
Lucid dreaming
Sidereal sound
Granular synthesis
Tidal shifts
John Dee-like methods of scrying
Mistakes made by their electronic equipment, i.e. glitch music
Synchronizing their studio to the SETI project
Chaos theory
Archaic/obsolete modular synthesizers
The experimental ANS photoelectronic synthesizer
A Theremin
A Moog synthesizer
A morbid electronic shakuhachi
Even their distribution and marketing techniques were left-of-center, sometimes producing only as many as 99 copies of an album, making them collectors' items among devotees. Including things such as 'art objects', blood stains and sigil-like autographs in the packaging of their albums, they claim this makes their work more personal for true fans, turning their records into something akin to occultish artifacts. "
They also scored the music for the first Hellraiser movie but the studio executives ultimately decided not to use it because they thought it was "too creepy, too bizarre".
So there you have it. I'll have to try it again sometime and see if it has the same effect.
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salome:
I've had dreams like that; you wake up and think: Did I drop acid in my sleep? WTF?
y:
Who knows. I'm more inclined to think the notion of wormholes is just science's fairly sad attempt to get to grips with spiritual reality without actually having to confront it head-on. They'll get there eventually.