Inhabiting other bodies

I have given quite some time to the thought of what does it feel like to suddenly and consciously inhabit somebody else's body. Does it feel like our vision has been altered with a different white balance, sharpness or even angles of view, the sounds have a different equalization with the new ears, the smells we might suddenly become aware of, the odors from our guts to our skin now perceived raw with no filtering. Our new hair reacting to the wind in a new way perhaps making us feel like we might be wearing a peruke and perhaps even our skin might feel implanted and of a notable texture that we can describe in all sorts of details. Does that influence our language and the words we use to describe the same things such as an apple being less red but more pink?

Now consider with a stretch of your imagination, what would it feel like to suddenly become embodied in an animal, say a feline not to exaggerate. Do we feel all the now noticeable hair follicles, the warmth,  the new vision, the new instincts and basic feline desires, the flexibility, agility and lightness. Perhaps the need to test all of these new features by walking around, stretching, purring, running, miao-ing and other feline activities?

Now that we have gone that far, why not imagine being a bird, a fruit fly and perhaps if bacteria and even unicellular organisms had a non collective consciousness I would suggest imagining that as a bonus exercise.

Now imagination aside, how far are we scientifically from simulating such a feeling. I can tell that VR combined with AR headsets offer us an outsider's vision but what about taste, smell, touch and somehow the modified perception of ones own voice (e.g. gas masks or software) in real time? Are there any psychedelic drugs or lucid dreaming techniques that allow for such an experience while we wait for technological gadgets to make us body surf in a way?

When was the last time...

When was the last time you observed your surrounding all mesmerized,  when was the last time your heart skipped a beat for misplacing your wallet in your left pocket for a fraction of a second and you were aware of that moment? When was the last time you were told you cannot travel because your passport expires in 5 months at the gate though you always thought that they did not want you where  you lived?  How does it feel after planning for the trip for months and saving for it for years? How does it feel  when this person who was hindering your dream was turned down by her superior who has humane qualities left in her for compassion . I only wish ppl traveled more often. 

Then it might feel  urgent to append what follows.  A man in his mid 40s enters the plane confusing the gate number with the seat number just in front of me.  He only had his home printed ticket with no seat information.  However,  finally he is aware of the ticket given at check-in and guess where he is destined to sit for the next 10 hours? Yes,  next to me,  lucky me to share half a day with a half brained adult.  But before I finish my sentence he is already gone scouting for another seat.  What can I add after this ?

Photonology: Hacking Reality with Psychotechnology

Photonology: Hacking Reality with Psychotechnology: Who in his bored mind and mundane life would not be tempted to trick his brains into a dreamy state and enjoy its outcomes. While drugs...

#Iamcharlie or #Iamnotcharlie, this is not the answer!

The past two days in Paris were nauseating. I tried to remain silent but that would only be in favor of violence and against the freedom of speech. I have mixed feelings. #Iamcharlie and #Iamnotcharlie, the former for the freedom of speech I have long fought for and the latter for the hatred it has provoked in the ignorant minds. I respect all religions although I practice none and I refuse to ever associate myself or others to an -ism for that is the work of a lazy mind. A guru does not come to you and tell you what book to read or what actions to do but will be sitting there waiting for you to come and ask questions. Wake up people! There is no religion, sexual orientation, skin color or hair style to blame for what happened with #charliehebdo and is still happening today. An eye for an eye and the world will become blind. Perhaps we are partially responsible for secluding some people from education and resources. Perhaps that is a wake up call for us to become more intuitive and think for ourselves. Perhaps this happened to shed some light on similar causes that might soon explode  #iamafrica #iamlebanon #iamtibet... Paris was called the "city of light" for it was home for enlightenment and revolutions. I trust that it shall remain so braving the darkness and enlightening the rest of the world. A #momentofsilence for the victims.

EDIT: Feel free to share this post or disagree with it if you articulate your arguments in a respectful and clear manner! Remember that silence is a form of nonexistence or support of the #zeitgeist .

La stagione dell'amore

"la stagione dell'amore viene e va" ma quando viene cambia la nozione del tempo e non si rende piu conto quando era venuta e se sta per andare via o s'e' gia' partita. Si diventa ultra-percettivo, e basterebbe un'idea per illuminarsi o una foto per ricordarsi tutto il passato. In oltre, si diventa super-intuitivo e capace di isolarsi da tutte le distrazioni per capire l'essenza intro-e-retro-spetticamente. La mente drogata e paragonabile a quella innamorata. Non tema nulla! E capace di sognare senza frontiere. E capace di immaginare ogni circostanza come quando eravamo piccoli ma non ci ricordiamo dei nostri sogni effimeri e affannati.



Quella stagione dell'amore, vorrei sapere come mantenerla certo dopo accorgersi di averla. Come mantenere quel flusso di dopamina ad infinitum! Certo cerco di dormire di meno per sfruttarla, e di scrivere per non dimenticarla.

Questo, sarebbe vivere una vita meno sprecata! Questo sarebbe vivere!

Best of best wishes

The greatest thing I have discovered this past year was the ability to love like a child and not have my heart broken!


I have had the chance to visit many beautiful places and meet faces of great minds yet humble hearts who have helped me realise with the right combination of inner peace and self-awareness, how beautiful this transient infinity called life can be. I am utterly grateful for their presence in my life and in my heart.


Here is my 2 cents' worth of advice, that you have to forgive me if it may sound too shockingly straightforward and simple: Don’t meet people you don’t want to meet or go to places you don’t want to go to or do things you don’t want to do. Don’t hush your highs, yuck your yums and tame your dream, and above all, don’t take anything for granted or putatively just because the majority thinks so or your boss says so. Love yourselves so that you can love others and do not fear the consequences for energy is neither created nor destroyed and if you still worry listen to C. Sagan’s thoughts on this dot we inhabit https://soundcloud.com/adamf…/adam-freeland-pale-blue-dot-dj


I was so lucky to visit many fabulous places this past year that inspired me to start a series of short movies of which the first was premiered in Paris last month http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4268350/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_2 . Next on my myopic agenda is a trip to Thailand and Sri Lanka where I will join my buddy, Nut. Deivison and myself, are quarter-way through the 1001 facesproject and I am waiting for a couple of good news besides that of continuing my research at the Université Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie and the BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France for the next year or two.


*Life* is amazing for those who know how to enjoy it. Just ask the stars for anything you want and the universe will make your dreams come true. Don’t take my metaphors too literally and have your fabulous selves a wondrous year cause you deserve nothing less than that.

how well can well being be?

Have you ever asked yourself, simply, how well can one be at well being? People ask "how are you" to which one usually replies, "I'm doing well/fine" but what extreme of well being can one aim for and attain? There is no reason why, if a person can be more well, there is no reason why he would not -- unless -- well, unless well being is some sort of near death experience that defies death and tinkers with other fears we must have auto-developed as we were growing up. But if well being was some sort of (harmless) epiphany, what would be the fatal dose, the heroic dose and what would be the withdrawal symptoms and the quantity of resistance if any at all? Will too much astonishment always be followed by a boring routine or can we find a way to hack our lives into infinite epiphanies each astronomically more enlightening than the previous one? ... Why take risks? Why adventure? Why the unknown? Fear is certainly the answer. Once you conquer it, you might get it!

I made this playlist http://8tracks.com/alahay/untitled-for-the-same-reason-you-were-born

Somewhere

Somewhere independent of space and time I let my heart of a child travel unafraid of being broken. I was curious so I followed only to be in love with the places it lead me to.

Vivere in 2.0 +/- ε dove ε ∈ [-2.0, ∞[

Amare tutti, nonostante il peccato che fan tutti i mortali, certo rende difficile fare compromessi ad una sola persona, a parte che avere una preferenza e' solitamente egoista, e con questo concludo la risposta al perche non vivere in 2 che oramai si traduce a 2.0 o per essere precisi 2.0 +/- ε dove ε ∈ [-2.0, ∞[, cioè ε può variare tra -2 o non vivere (vivere a 0.0), -1 o vivere solo (vivere a 1.0), 0 o vivere fedelissimo ad una persona nei casi rari (vivere a 2.0)... verso l'∞ laddove si perde la frontiera tra sconosciuti, amici e parenti e ogni persona si considera (s)conosciuta.

Penso di tangermi verso il caso dell' ∞ in cui sono aperto e bensì curioso di aprirmi ad ogni persona sia per amicizia che per conoscenza e non si tratta di orge o di malattie cognitive. Si tratta della definizione di "se" e della coscienza di "se" o piu' precisamente in inglese avrei detto che si tratta di "selfness and self-awareness".

Quando uno cresce tra i muri di una dottrina cattolica potrebbe accecarsi a vivere solo o a più di due e oltre biologicamente la sua necessita' di procreare, futilmente o no, diventa uno scopo nella vita.

Ogni tanto, ma tanto tanto perche sono una persona difficile in tempi ancor sempre piu difficili, mi capita di conoscere una persona che mi fa in un attimo vedere invece di un flashback, un flashforward della mia vita matrimoniale e oltre e se quelle persona e nubile nei rari casi della storia umana temo di non crederci e di far un gran cazzata volendo da un parere immaturo o poco sviluppato appropriare impazientemente i miei futuri incontri con la stessa persona o persone simili ... E a quel momento torno a vivere da 1 (da solo) o da mille (da solo) e chi piange a leggermi ora sta piangendo se stesso perche riconosce empaticamente la stessa solitudine che regna la sua vita.



Ho detto tutto, come direbbe Toto'!

lo que compartimos con el tiempo

Hace mucho tiempo que no escribo, igual hace mucho tiempo que perdi la noción del tiempo... Pero escribir no urge y tampoco leerlo, sin embargo y antes de concluir "nieztchemente" en las montañas virtuales de Torino, voy a contar la anécdota siguiente:

Compartimos todos, o casi todos, el dulce resabio de un sueno aun olvidado pero sabroso y buscamos los detalles convencidos que hay una verdad, una belleza, lo que sea, hay algo bueno que no entendimos y a entenderlo llegamos donde queremos y mas alla de donde fantaseamos.

El otro dia, he probado algo muy parecido al dulce resabio de un sueno efímero olvidado. Fue conociendo una persona en poco tiempo y descubriendo (o imaginando) en solo dos notches y con pocas palabras que fuimos a vivir dos vidas separadas en la misma maniera, o sea que ni necesitaba hablar de eso o mencionarlo porque era tan evidente en el modo de comunicarnos cuando era necesario. Habiendo vivido 2 vidas enteras de adultos desconocidos en pocos momentos descubrimos de carambola todo lo que podemos decir y no decir, haber dicho y no haber dicho y quizas tambien lo que diremos o seguimos sin decir. Era casi como haber ya vivido juntos porque ya nos conocemos. Al final, nos desculpamos de tener que separarnos sabiendo que nuestras vidas juntas serán futiles y aburridas...

Hoy y sin la minima noción del tiempo me quedo solo pensando si la comunicación era mas una reflection retro-y-intro-spectiva o una conclusion colectiva porque ya no se. Hoy y sin manana me pregunto si sera la ultima vez que me dejo sonar o la primera.