miliefisathand
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http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/where-did-survival-horror-go
its not exactly about bad trips. but while watching the video i couldn't help but ponder the horror genre and its value to people along side "feel good" movies and entertainment. sometimes we like to be scared.
but spiritually fulfilling horror entertainment (id say the likes of silent hill or hell raiser) may be different from the campy type of thrill derived from watching hostel.
this lead me to examine the psychedelic experience as genre driven.
we have love stories, comedies horror stories, action and
gangster" trips.
in this sense wouldn't psychedelics, as well as being healing and social tools, be the highest form of art in and of itself. the psychedelics themselves being a piece of psychedelic art work. perhaps a story each with their archtypes and characters (your friends, the police (if you're unlucky) the NPC's (strangers you meet at the rave/festival, etc) ?
Even before i discovered psychedelics id always fantasize about scenes in my life (both real and imagined) as being a story, each with dialogue trees and such.
in regards to bad trips, I feel that some of them may have parallels with horror fiction. the author of the above video claims that "as an interactive medium videogames are perhaps the best medium ever created for experiencing simulated scenarios of dread" as much as i love games, im not sure i agree. what do y'all think?
its not exactly about bad trips. but while watching the video i couldn't help but ponder the horror genre and its value to people along side "feel good" movies and entertainment. sometimes we like to be scared.
but spiritually fulfilling horror entertainment (id say the likes of silent hill or hell raiser) may be different from the campy type of thrill derived from watching hostel.
this lead me to examine the psychedelic experience as genre driven.
we have love stories, comedies horror stories, action and
gangster" trips.
in this sense wouldn't psychedelics, as well as being healing and social tools, be the highest form of art in and of itself. the psychedelics themselves being a piece of psychedelic art work. perhaps a story each with their archtypes and characters (your friends, the police (if you're unlucky) the NPC's (strangers you meet at the rave/festival, etc) ?
Even before i discovered psychedelics id always fantasize about scenes in my life (both real and imagined) as being a story, each with dialogue trees and such.
in regards to bad trips, I feel that some of them may have parallels with horror fiction. the author of the above video claims that "as an interactive medium videogames are perhaps the best medium ever created for experiencing simulated scenarios of dread" as much as i love games, im not sure i agree. what do y'all think?
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