I agree with your "approach is usually to just enter the trip with no agenda whatsoever, completely open minded, and not try to steer the ship in any particular direction."
In your report, much valuable detail was shared, and the enthusiasm even carries it to an extreme.
The introductory chapters might not be necessary but letting us know this stuff about you, which largely fits as a description for much of the population of psychonauts
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I don’t really like the beach. I don’t like the zoo. I don’t like swimming. I don’t like children. I don’t like carnivals. I can’t stand action movies. I don’t find the sitcom Friends funny. I certainly won’t jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane, and I have absolutely no interest in traveling the world.
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I like unusual or peculiar things. I like things with an element of mystery to them. I like misfits and things that stand out like a sore thumb. I like things that challenge the status quo. I like hidden things and well-kept secrets. I like plotting, scheming, and strategizing. I like the Oxford comma.
I like highly efficient and well designed systems. I like watching movies that make me feel alive. I like fighting back the tears when the dog dies.
(strangely I also suffer when any cartoon puppy is separated from his loved ones. but I think the beach is really not getting the respect from you it deserves, although perhaps you dislike beach abuse in movies, and how people turn the beach into the suburbs by crowding them)
establishes a kind of context for social psychonautical connection.
You should take up the beach and waves in general with Miss Octotouch, just on a flotsam and jetsam level perhaps. At least the bathtub is your beach substitute (mine mostly too) and I think you had a whale of a time in that tiny puddle.
Energetic dancing is a great way to reconnect to the body, but also it is a bit pyrotechnic rather than calming, and the drug is somewhat euphoric on its own, but really it is great to move the bones around and pour vigor and vitality into your mind this way.
The perception of the octopus connecting to the innards of the mind is really quite a amazing way of interpreting the tentacular touches and changes of sensation and ideas in an entheogenically altered state, [each tentacle touch lasting long enough to persist on the stage of awareness as eight other contacts and memories are accessed] which I usually describe much more dry-ly as frame stacking. (overlapping moments of experiencing)
To me that part of the octopus's union with your being was the most revealing part of the trip. Mentally, or spiritually speaking; otherwise this report is quite a carnival travelogue, even though you say
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I don’t like swimming. I don’t like children. I don’t like carnivals. I can’t stand action movies. I have absolutely no interest in traveling the world.
thanks for the long read, enjoy! and more thanks for the introduction to Miss Octotouch. meet you on the beach! (or some other puddle of stars)
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