Realizing Reality (Making One Up As I Go...)

Sometimes I think in terms of music. Not so much the musical notes, but with the fluidity and motion of the piece itself. My mind creates images and almost an entire world from a beat, the melody's peaks and ebbing drawing a new reality of characters and movement. Maybe that sounds crazy, but the world comes alive and more dramatic with a tune. For example, right now, I'm listening to "In Motion", a song on the Social Network soundtrack. Has a kind of techno feel to it, but there's a little more to it, and right now, the beat is building. What's my mind's eye see? It started with a thick club scene, like a scene from the second matrix, very primal. At 2:40(ish), the beat suddenly drops, almost silence, and again, a new image: that of someone standing there in complete stillness, finger extended toward a single raindrop suspended in time and space. And then the beat picks up and the droplet bursts on the ground, and suddenly it's a great rain storm: thousands upon thousands of droplets creating an evergrowing funnel of energy around the person who was first in the club. And then it all digitally dissolves, like a scene from Scott Pilgrim or something. It's crazy what the mind can come up with.

This late at night, when I'm trying to write, I find that listening to a show is a BAD idea. SO I pump up the beats. Depends on how my day went, usually, but I most often like listening to something wordless, something that gives my mind a little more freedom and room for creative license. One of my favorite people in the world was helping me overcome writer's block with some prompts, and so far, these two methods seem to be the most helpful when I'm stuck in a writing funk. Or heck, even just a creative funk, or a funk of any sort. :)

As of right now, my reality is in the world of music (even if this makes me sound like druggie, I don't care). Trying to enjoy the solitude and ease of escape into this said reality, away from the pain, and overcoming the melancholy of today. So far, it's a very lovely world indeed. Time to turn up the tempo...

~Char In Motion