WarpMyMind

Hello All,

Hope everyone is well.

I have 2 questions:

Once you have listened to a file a few times, is there any benefit to slowing or speeding the file playback up? would this help it sink in more?

Are there any free open source programs for editing and playing around with files?

Thank you in advance.

-angelcraves

thanks for the reply :)

d/l the program no idea how to use it, guess this might take a while..

@MN_FriendlyGuy: Why do I always feel your posts lack an induction? ;)

:lol:

I think I see what you mean.

Score_Under wrote:@MN_FriendlyGuy: Why do I always feel your posts lack an induction? ;)

*grinning*

The induction is there. I believe you're overlooking it.

The trick is to look for it in the question. And you've asked a question, haven't you?

Many people read these public forums. And, some of those folks might wonder the same thing... Why do I always feel your posts lack an induction? Maybe a hundred people will read this and wonder. Who knows?

But you're the one who asked, aren't you? And, that reminds me of something.

Casinos are flashy places that appeal to many people. At any moment-in-time, it would be normal for a hundred people - maybe more - to all be placing wagers. Slots, roulette, cards, dice, kino... so many different ways to place a bet.

And if you've ever placed a bet, then you know what it feels like to plunk your money down, spin the wheel and hope for a win as you wait.

Each patron in the casino experiences this hope. In the privacy of their separate realities, each patron experiences this desire in their own way. It's tied to the act of taking a risk.

And when you understand this concept, then you also understand how the act of posting a question in the forum and hoping for a response is its own induction.

And you do like inductions, don't you? :wink:

MN_FriendlyGuy wrote:

Score_Under wrote:@MN_FriendlyGuy: Why do I always feel your posts lack an induction? ;)

*grinning*

The induction is there. I believe you're overlooking it.

Brillilantly done, as always. You have an excellent economy of words and allow each one to enjoy a full range of meaning.

It's a pleasure ot re-read your posts slowly. There's almost always something there that I can't quite figure out. Maybe somone else can. In any case, feeling my way through them is more like an Easter egg hunt than placing a bet, at least for me. I have the certainty that there's a prize in the tall grass. I just have to slow down and keep looking and it will be mine.

Unless someone beats me to it.

Hide more treats, MN_FriendlyGuy. *grin*

-- Blink

I feel honoured to have replies to my thread from two of the favourite people I love reading posts from. Blink do not do yourself a dis-service your good boy mp3 is amazing, truly unique.
I do love reading all of the winding paths in MN's posts though, although I can't figure out all of the reply to me.
Mystery is part of the fun :)

angelcraves wrote:I feel honoured to have replies to my thread from two of the favourite people I love reading posts from. Blink ...your good boy mp3 is amazing, truly unique.

Thanks for the kind words, angelcraves. You're a very good boy.

I should probably say something on-topic and worthwhile, eh? Luckily, this thread reminds me of a story.

One of the classic ways of inducing trance is with a metronome. The regular tick-tock of the machine coupled with the visual of the arm swinging back and forth, over and over, gives a good point of focus--it occupies the whole mind in an entrancing way. In the course of his research with various inductions, testing them all to find the best ways to go into trance, Dr. Erickson tried the metronome. Tried it and enjoyed success with it, too. He could start the tick-tock machinery in motion and subjects would drift into trance. It was very effective.

Effective, that is, until the day Dr. Erickson discovered that the metronome was broken.

Metronomes, so long ago, were mechanical things: clockwork and springs and pendulum arms. Modern metronomes are electronic and beep or chirp like a clock-radio alarm instead of ticking and tocking like a friendly old grandfather clock. The new metronomes are almost unbreakable, too, no longer subject to rusty gears or an over-wound mainspring. Of course, the cool timing circuits and sleek plastic cases don't produce the same warm, inviting, endearing, satisfying tock, either.

But Dr. Erickson, a man who'd learned to walk three times in his life, wasn't going to be stopped by a too-tight spring or a speck of rust. He simply had his subject relax and imagine a metronome tick-tocking away as he carried on with his induction.

It worked better.

Dr. Erickson, after repeating his work with the imaginary metronome many times, decided that the imagined equipment worked better than the real equipment because it left control of the speed, loudness, pitch--all of the sensory submodalities--of the metronome up to the subject. If having the metronome tick slower feels good, then it ticksslower. Not possible with a real metronome, but impossible not to do with an imagined one. Greater comfort leads to quicker, deeper trance. That's easy to understand, now, isn't it.

Where's your thread woven into this?

If you think the audio track you're trancing to would be more comfortable a little slower, then slow it down. If it would feel better a little faster, speed it up. You might even get a sense of it now by remembering the words of that induction you like and slowing the playback in your mind.

You might find... that just... imagining... the words... getting slower... and slower... can begin... to... have... ef... fects... now....

There are no wrong answers.

Some answers are more right.

Yours don't have to be the same. You have permission, now.

Enjoy.

-- Blink