Growing Up Goth In 2000: First Times, Mistakes, & No Rules At All!

A big nostalgia-trip, since I've been going through so many old pictures lately! This was a nice change of pace - I love revisiting old memories; it is truly startling to me how suddenly & completely the goth scene seems to have evaporated in the last 6ish years - it seemed such a permanent thing to me when I started out; it had been running since the '80s, since just before I was *born*, & though the trad goths were already bemoaning the 'death of the scene' as things slid further towards EBM/futurepop & away from trad, I didn't mind the mixture, & as far as I could see things were booming, so they always would be. Wherever you went, be it a city or a small town, you'd pass a pack of teenage goths somewhere, decked out in trenchcoats, heavy collars, bad eyeliner, & I'd always try not to stare, to look like I'd seen it all before & Wasn't Impressed At All, lol, but these days those tribal sighting just don't happen, & I stare like hell whenever I encounter a lone residual trench-coated goth out and about, because it's so wonderful to see one in the wild at all now :-/

Anyway, if you made it to the end of this video, & are intrigued by trying a hypnosis wander round your own brain, memories & imagination, search YouTube for 'Michael Sealey hypnosis' - I first discovered the lucid dreaming one, but that inevitably sends me to sleep, so the 'past life regression' one has been the most fun so far - can't say I've seen any past lives, but I did get a really intriguing reverse slideshow of childhood memories, getting younger & younger, on one occasion, which was fascinating. Generally speaking though, when he gets to that bit about the circles on the beach, when I find I can really SEE that beach, & find the sand under my feet is getting insanely tactile & real, that's the point I start ignoring his instructions & just go off on my own adventures :3 Have fun, & tell me about it if your brain throws up some beautiful madness! :D /And don't give up if you fall asleep the first time - I've discovered so far that there seem to be 3 very distinct levels of trance you can fall into, each with their own characteristics & purposes, which is something I'll have to chat about sometime, but visual exploration level trance is best achieved when you aren't really tired as you begin. You need to be calm enough to stay the feck still & listen, lol, but exhaustion just equals falling asleep XD Hypnosis does work best though when you nearly fall asleep during the periods of quiet music, then as he starts speaking again it kinda jolts you alert, so you're just edging between sleep & consciousness - it's an interesting zone!/

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