Hypno-Noumenal Somatrons: hyper-flow ensembles: Part III: Sensation & Vision

///In Part III we move to another sensation, vision. I'm not totally happy with this experiment: it doesn't have the closeness to experience that the Sonic Experiment invoked. My aim was chaotic, and that was achieved, but the result was unanchored. The experiment was more stimulation than I was expecting, and I nearly vomited several times while performing it (hence the warning). I do appreciate that element, I like how bodily the experience was forced to become, and while performing I eventually closed my eyes and swam in the nausea, using that chaotic whirl as the anchor. Again, the resultant poem leaves much to be desired, but I hope you enjoy nonetheless.

As always, feel free to send your results to my e-mail (they might be published here if you give permission), or post them in the forum, which should be up tonight.

Other housekeeping:

- There's a poll on my twitter for what I'll be working on posting next. It should be active for the next few hours. Currently Aztec Metaphysics/Simone de Beauvoir is winning, but a Riverdale post and a short story are tied for second.

- The forum page should be up by tonight (if I can figure it out), where you can post the results of your own performances of the experiments or other discussion questions etc. about any of my other posts. Also feel free to e-mail me any questions at k-valis@outlook.com, or under the "contact" page above.

And as always, thanks to @youtubeartifact for the image for this post.///

picture creds @youtubeartifact on twitter

VISION Experiment: Clusters

(WARNING: MAY CAUSE NAUSEA. DO NOT ATTEMPT IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES.)

Materials: TV, two laptops, two chairs, audio recording Notes: Leave the recording device on. Speak parataxically throughout.

1. image

Place a TV beside two laptops. Tune the TV to cable news and mute it. On the two laptops play Kusama’s “Self-Obliteration” and Stan Brakhage’s “Dog Star Man” on mute (available on YouTube).

Sit on the floor in front of the screens cross-legged. Breathe deeply into your stomach and remember something you wish you hadn’t seen.

Lie on your back on two chairs in front of the TV so that your head dangles off upside down. Place your recording device on your chest. Close your eyes for two minutes. Notice that even in the dark you are seeing, that morphic shape s bloom unbidden. Observe them.

Imagine very hard that you are upright. Imagine yourself standing, looking at someone you love.

(a piece of wet ceiling; Mindflayer, vermiform, lashing a waxy morning-star; a red algal bloom; heat-deaths of cities; curves that are flowing biologies; golden minds, ba’al shem, all plastic)

2. overload

Open your eyes. Watch all three screens, then each on its own, then skew your eyes until the images overlap, blur, meld.

Become conscious of the blood pooling in your head, pulling it away from your body.

Continue speaking for 10 minutes or until a thought train has run its course.

(deformations that are intrinsic and brief; tainted tattered true symbols; wakes are caused by movement; resurrection of nine legal lips; wet brain sparking neuropiles; a tainted prism stirring nausea)

Sit upright. Retrieve your notebook and play back the recording. Write the words randomly on the page, scattered.

3. flash

Resume the recording. Close your eyes.

Shine a flashlight on your face. Observe how total light is like total darkness—forms emerge warping chroma into shape. Continue speaking aloud.

(blast void seethes; a white dragon recapitulates, scrying into quantum foam; we grasp milk with the mercy, things drawing)

Play back the new recording and write the words randomly on the same page in the gaps that are left. Seriously consider what invisibility looks like.

Group the words into six clusters on the page. Turn to a new page. For each cluster, write the first 2 letters of each word down in discrete clusters. These will be the first two letters of each line. Write the poem.

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VISION EXPERIMENT

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