one of the best conversations i had at happened after it technically ended and here's how it went down: at the airport i learned i had more time than i thought to kill before my flight, then pulled me into his airbnb group to hang out (thanks 🙏)
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we ubered to a BBQ place and on the way i ended up sitting next to . my memory of how the convo started is fuzzy but i think we started talking about 's dance class and eventually about imaginal practice
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I'm going to credit @Aella_Girl 's dance class with the highest compounding returns at vibecamp. There were massive improvements from people who absolutely thought they couldn't dance. And now, they get to spend the rest of their lives knowing they can.
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mentioned he'd done some imaginal stuff with which i was very curious about, i mentioned i'd done very little imaginal stuff but wanted to do more, and that the first time i tried image streaming i got images of cartoons
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there's this technique called "image streaming" where you basically practice letting your mind generate images and then describing them out loud; i did it once and found it very helpful and also very intense
winwenger.com/imstream.htm
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he told me he used imaginal practice with clients to help them figure out their personal aesthetic so they can dress the way they want
i immediately got a flash of an image of an outfit, which was basically the trenchcoat look from the matrix
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then as we continued to talk about the matrix and gundams and other shit we thought was really cool when we were 10 i was pondering why it felt embarrassing to admit that there appeared to be a perhaps-10-year-old part of me that wanted to dress this way
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in response a *very* specific memory arose i haven't thought about in 10 years, maybe 20
when i was ~8, i wanted to dress up as a gundam for halloween. i tried making the costume out of cardboard by myself. it looked very bad; i didn't really try to paint it or anything
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i looked at a photo of it and felt deeply embarrassed and from that moment on i never seriously tried to do a halloween costume or any other costume again
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looking back on it now i'm sad that no one in my life could help me make the costume good. i didn't have parents or older siblings who understood what i was trying to do enough to help and encourage me to do it well
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this was a therapeutic experience! recalling this memory in this convo instantly recontextualized years' worth of experiences cringing slightly at the arrival of halloween or even shopping for regular clothes, and meanwhile being weirdly fascinated by pictures of cosplayers
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all of this happened in the space of maybe 10 minutes
this is the kind of thing i mean when i say public twitter has nowhere near enough bandwidth for the amount of conversation that should be happening
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if i’ve learned one thing from the last few days it’s that public twitter actually has nowhere near enough bandwidth to sustain the raw amount of conversation that should be happening
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anyway is one of my new favorite people, absolutely vibed our tits off, gonna be chewing on our conversation for days or maybe weeks
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also kind of in awe at the number of people who had to in some sense collaborate to make this conversation happen exactly the way it did. and and from afar, and if we trace the backstory further god knows who else
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