Thread: Task of the Month for August 2014

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Advanced Task ii - Visit Sophie and Calcifer at Howl's Castle and turn the door dial to a random color, open the door and describe where it leads. - KestrelKat

Uh is this from, like, a cartoon or something?

/me scurries off to Google...

SammyTheSnake

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

Uh is this from, like, a cartoon or something?

/me scurries off to Google...

SammyTheSnake

It's from the Studio Ghibli movie Howl's Moving Castle I recommend watching it, even if animated movies aren't your thing. Actually, watch any of the Studio Ghibli movies, they're great. And pretty.

Originally Posted by Antoia

It's from the Studio Ghibli movie Howl's Moving Castle I recommend watching it, even if animated movies aren't your thing. Actually, watch any of the Studio Ghibli movies, they're great. And pretty.

So, yeah, a cartoon

Actually, a friend of mine who's a bit into anime (not massively) also mentioned Studio Ghibli in much the same terms. I might have to track some down. I'm not particularly into Anime, myself, I remember trying to watch Akira when I was a kid and not getting it, but I think I was too young, really. I enjoyed Ghost in the machine and Laputa (is that the name of the film, or is the film called something different) but can't remember having seen any other Anime all the way through...

Anyway, I'm definitely up for playing with a giant steam powered walking castle that takes you to random places, so I'll try to do that if I have enough dream control :-D

I'm also very much up for plopping an eyeball out, it's not like you're likely to have the chance in real life (and if you do, you're unlikely to be in the mood to enjoy the experience! :-D)

It reminds me of a variation of the 61 point relaxation technique that I was playing with a few weeks back. I decided that as well as "visualising" pressure at each of the variouis points, I'd take it a couple of steps further, visualising that pressure being inside my joints (where the point was at or near a joint) and then visualising the sensations of those joints becoming ludicrously flexible, bending backwards, stretching, wrapping my arms around my torso twice, that kind of thing. There was an initial mental resistance because I was visualising the sensation of my elbows resistin going past straight and that made it really uncomfortable, but I managed after a couple of attempts to just imagine that my joints were supposed to work like that and it became much easier!

Also, the Great Banana Bank Robbery must be attempted! I've got some lovely ideas for deliberately misunderstanding creatively reinterpreting that one! :-D

SammyTheSnake