I have sleep apnea. I have it pretty severely so I wear a cpap mask when I sleep. My kids call it my Darth Vader mask. One thing this mask allows is for me to scuba under heavy covers and create like a sensory depravation cocoon. I get the utter blackness and warmth without feeling like I'm suffocating. It had been a couple sleepless nights with the 4 year old in our bed so last night I layer down by 8:30 pm to catch up on sleep though exhausted I still needed to unwind so in my blackened haven I listened to this cd on headphones. #mesarthim play sci-fi themed atmospheric black metal. Which amounts to well produced and played black metal with bloopy-bleepy keyboards instead of orchestra string section keyboards. I love the stuff. I started really visualizing out of body space stuff, it was trippy and novel so I entertained it. I let the music work my head and lied there with eyes open in pitch black. It was one of those experiences I am always skeptical of but love the romantic artistic nature of its recounts. I have experienced similar effects (drug induced) but never so quickly or thoroughly. I suspect the sleep depravation had something to do with it. I am anxious to listen to this again in a similar setting to see if it was a hallucinatory perfect storm or if this album really is that trippy. I've enjoyed this record as background music to drawing, I have even played it (to favorable reviews) at the tattoo shop. It's set to top my year end list of it keeps having these seeming profound effects on me. Cool.
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