A State of Trance

Tonight just may be one of my favorite Sunday nights of all time. To kind of throw you right into where I'm right now, paint yourself this picture -

You're sitting in your bed, covers pulled up to your waist and your back leaning on your pillow. Your laptop is sitting gently on your lap and you have your earphones plugged into your ears from your computer. There's a lot of things happening outside; but right now, you just don't give a damn. The music that's flowing from the computer to your ears is just so calm and soothing to your mind. You're in a state of trance, of solitude. Nothing else matters right now and you can just about feel every muscle in your body being relaxed. Not a care in the world.

The only thing that I left open was what kind of music was playing. Recently, and partly because I haven't been able to find some good new music, I've diverted to a lot of electronica. Just a few years ago, I was never a fan of electronica because I felt the music never had any flow or any structure to it. All it ever was were just beats and a catchy little riff or something that lasted a few minutes. But I can legitimately say that there's some talent out there now with the electronica that's being produced. And no, I don't mean club music or any of that kind of stuff.

Okay, maybe a bit of it can be played in clubs, but they're better. Or maybe my tastes have just changed? Who knows. But I've discovered something so full of bliss with this kind of music - it captivates my entire spirit, it seems. Most of what I'm listening to is really calm, engaging and relaxing music. You can call it musical therapy.

So tonight, coincidentally, a lot of my friends and I just so happened to be expecting a long night of work or studying. I know how grueling these nights can be so I decided to try to do something to make it more fun and lighten it up a bit! I threw out a challenge on Facebook that seemed to spread even beyond just my circle of friends! Definitely a proud moment. So I gathered all the pictures that I had seen with my friends work stations and posted them into one post on my Tumblr if you want to see.

I know that it ultimately might have hindered my productivity, but I'll trade my work for good fellowship and bonding time any day. It's all about relationships after all ain't it?

So anyways, as I sit in my bed in the situation that I described above, I am listening to my music and I'm absolutely in a state of trance. Everything that I'm typing out right now is literally all that I'm thinking about, translated from my brain to my fingers. There isn't another thought outside of one other one, that I haven't typed on this blog post over the last several minutes. And I feel like that thought probably isn't worth sharing, haha.

To be honest, I haven't felt this relaxed mentally in a very long time. I'm sure I'll eventually come back to gripes with all that I need to do, but I feel like this is so good for me and a lot of other people: to have that time in the day where they can just relax and drift away for a long time and not care about it at all.

In case you're wondering about what I'm listening to and want to search some of it up, you can! Aside from a lot of that popular and "mainstream" electronica like the trance and techno crap that is out there, I'm listening to Blue Sky Black Death and Ludique. I will warn you now that this isn't music for everyone. It's just what I found works for me. It's really helped me calm myself and sometimes I just don't want to escape from the state that I've been put into. Haha.

So with September being out of the way, I hope everyone has had a good first month and are excited and looking forward to all the sweet happenings that October has to offer!

The next thing I need to work on is silence.