Does it happen to you..

..that some days you feel like everything you do is smoother? Does it happen to you that some days you can play better any instrument?

I love those days! :smiley:

I am sooooo tempted … :swear:

djm

Nope. Ask anyone who play with me regularly. Doesn’t happen.

Yes and when it does I look for salt shaker on the bar in the pub, open the lid and make a salt circle around my feet, ask for some garlic bread and hang that around my neck and prey that I haven’t been cursed. Because knowing myself it is more of an abnominaly than the actual thing and that I am not delusional.

Anstapa

Sure do… but only when nobody’s looking… or listening…

Yes and on those days I also seem to know the right words for every situation, and have a kind word for everybody…

enjoy your day and may you have many more days just like it!

I think that there is a lot of mental and physical capacity that we are not using. We all have heard stores of people who were able to perform extraordinary feats when required to do so by circumstances.

I have heard it being referred to as ā€œbeing in the zoneā€ or some such expression. I used to practice the classical guitar for hours every day. Without any special effort or decision on my part, I would often slip into a period of time when I was able to play especially well and without much effort. I have also had this experience when I was hiking in the mountains. Suddendly, I would become aware that I had entered into a different way of experiencing reality. I felt as if I was almost floating instead of plodding up the mountain trail, which was my normal experience. I sure wish that I knew how to simply turn-on those moments.

It’s called an acid flashback, Doug. :wink:

djm

something that cannot be named?
:stuck_out_tongue:

abomination+anomaly=abnominaly ?
abomination+nominal=abnominaly ? :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

couldn’t have worded it better!

PS. i don’t do any drugs (:D), it’s just.. as Doug said.. really, doesn’t it happen to you guys?

Yes :heart: and I don’t do drugs either :laughing:

But several people here have a sense of humor that is a bit dark and cynical. It’s like you have translate everything they say. Just shift everything over a few notches. ā€œThat stunkā€ means it was OK, ā€œThat was OKā€ means it was pretty good, and ā€œthat was pretty goodā€ means it was off the scale fantastic.

:laughing:

Now I’m curious-- I’m going to do a search on ā€œblissā€ and see what comes up…

This has always happened to me, throughout decades of playing on a variety of instruments. Some days I’m completely inept, usually mediocre, and occasionally inspired. It was for this reason that I opted early on to avoid most performance situations, and concentrate on informal music-making with friends. I’ve never regretted that decision.

Now I’m curious-- I’m going to do a search on ā€œblissā€ and see what comes up…

I am finding some good quotes searching on the words bliss, flow, inspiration.

I was surprised to see that apparently Nano has never used the word ā€œblissā€ on the Flute Forum?! :boggle:

:laughing:

hurmp…well…

good morning to you too :smiley:

That’s because love doesn’t necessarily equal bliss. Right? :wink:

There’s an old story about a musician who was offered by the fairies the choice to either have his music please himself, or please others. He opted for the first, and was most pleased indeed. But in his case that wasn’t enough because he found soon enough that, while he wanted to spread the joy as well, per the fairies’ decree it wasn’t happening. No one else was interested; his choice was, in the end, a sterile one for him. He contacted the fairies and asked if he could switch his choice. The wish was granted; people loved his music, but he himself was never satisfied ever again.

The above story isn’t necessarily about right or wrong reasons for playing. It’s merely about choices and the ironies that so often balance them out. For the record, I fall within neither of the story’s categories.

No names were mentioned! :wink:

BTW a search on Denny / bliss or enthusiasm or happy yielded no hits on either the Flute or whistle forum. Denny /good / whistle forum gave me:


Sorry, this week I’m supposed to be painting the upstairs room. Hopefully, the paint will be in a state of flow but I am having no bliss or enthusiasm. However I am good at procrastinating. It’s rather like being dragged into an arena to fight a battle to the death… :laughing: :swear:

BTW ya left out irony…



I think both of those words fall short. Might be more of a nirvana thing.

ya missed that whole ninja thing didn’t ya…what was the name of that movie?

You’re Washington boy. In Flutero?

Over the years I’ve noticed that I get a lift of euphoria shortly before I go down with some squamous bug or infection. It also seems to be that the degree of euphoria is proportional to the misery induced by the infection.

I’ve learned to mistrust the euphoria. At the moment the rest of the family is stricken by some horrible germ or virus. Two days ago I got a sudden lift of euphoria which I suppressed. The impression I have is that opening your system to the euphoria also opens your system to the invading bug. So far I haven’t come down with the bug. Watch this space.