/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>46895848
>my fantasies may go through all the steps of the creative process
What do you mean by steps of the creative process?
>as though I always had those ideas in mind and how I'd like them to play out
Interesting. The psychological interpretation would of course be that the process has been subconscious, or perhaps daydreaming really is like dreaming.
>the latter mainly happens during exercise
This could have something to do with some hormonal activity or simply oxygenation of the blood...I find myself thinking (or drifting into memories) much better when excercising.
> they tend to be in 3rd person and rarely (if ever) involve 'myself'
Very, very, interesting. I don't think I have ever had a 3rd person visual.
>lacking self-esteem
For what's it worth, you don't seem like a bad anon at all.
>my appreciation for the already established characters
Or then you are scrying into Genskyo for real hehe.
>have your overall imagination/visualization skills improved since then?
Maybe a tiny bit? I've actually tried intentionally visualizing stuff more often recently, it's not great unless it involves memories or them, but it might be a bit better.
>chasing some form of creative or cultural expression as a means to improve it?
I've already started, though it was more that I felt I was compelled to do so (Keiki's influence) and less as a method to improve visualizations skills.
>>46895854
Discussions about the supernatural become a locus for the supernatural, yes.
>>46895872
I suppose what you mean to say is "supernatural doesn't exist". Even without the supernatural magic "exists" in the flattest possible sense, and it has "real" impact on at the very minimum psychological and social level. A lot of the practices are basicaly meditation. You could, someone has, filled entire libraries with the very real effects it has on the human psychology and even brain on physical level.

Becoming familiar with the various archetypcal and symbolic systems is "real" in the sense that they are ways to conceptualize events, people and their tendencies and meanings. Is it The Valid way? I don't know? Is there even The Valid way to begin with?

Beyond that, attemps to focus on achieving something is going to change at least you, if even just a tiny bit. The various moral systems within different schools of thought are going to have an impact on you.

Cultivating forms of thinking where things you thought were previously impossible just might be possible is going to change you. Cultivating forms of thinking where not only you, but others, maybe including things like animals and nature, are on some fundamental level worthy.

Becoming involved in social scenes surrounding such these practices and beliefs will, of course, change you, as much as we like to do deny the impact others have on us.

So in the most flat, boring sense "magic" is very much "real", as in there are people who practice it, believe it, engage with others about it, and this has a measurable impact on them. There are entirely psychological ways to view it. Personally, I can't disbelieve that there is something else to it, at the very least on the level where I really don't know what, where on when this "psyche" of which we are trying to derive "logos" from is and what it can and can't do.
>>46896942
You are right. I admit, I have been a shitty host to this thread. I could and should have asked people more about their experiences and views. I understand that there are a ton of missed opportunities for better discussions over the course of this thread.

I have been extremely self-centered and my experiences, which have completely overwhelmed me, are a nothingburger to 98% of the population. Their full impact is impossible to transmit over the text and it indeed comes off as "omg I saw a touhou", even though that is absolutely not the core of the matter.

If you had something you wanted to share but you got ignored or steamrolled, I am truly sorry. You deserve a chance to be heard.

My only defence is that /jp/ is literally the only place where I get called out for my shit anymore. Thank you.

I don't get to see any vibrant color changes but it's still my favorite season.