Survey about experience and reality

[David Phillips]

I'm wanting to do more in depth writing about existential communication.  If anyone is interested this survey would help me out a lot.

 

1.  How many hours do you spend on the internet?

2. How many hours do you spend watching any television?

3. How many hours do you spend in direct social interaction.

4. Try to recall all of the interactions from a single day.

5. From that day, now include all television interaction you can recall.

6. Recall your most vivid day dream from today.  Frame it as far back as you can including the situation that brought the dream to your mind.

7. While writing through these interactions what felt the most real?

 

If you could message me this I would greatly appreciate it.

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

hours per what?  Day?  Week?  I probably couldn't answer because of my MD.  It makes it very hard to keep track of things.  I'm on for 5 mins, off for 20, on for an hour, off for a few.  I honestly couldn't say...........but still, it would probably be good to qualify.

[David Phillips]

This is a recount of a single day

[David Phillips]

Anyone want to help me out with this survey?  I really want to know how others think about reality, and what feels the most real for them.

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

I would, but I'm constantly in & out.  I probably couldn't even estimate how many hours a day I do anything.  Plus my computer is always online.  I check it frequently throughout the day, a minute here & there.  Too often & too randomly to add it up.

[David Phillips]

I know what you mean.  I spend a great deal of my day interacting with people through online sources.  Far more than I do with other people.  Online is just so convenient to talk to people with.

[Marie]

1.  How many hours do you spend on the internet?

When I don't have any work I am able to spend all my time on the internet. I mostly spend my time watching videos and anime or reading webcomics or manga, though.

2. How many hours do you spend watching any television?

I don't watch much television. I pretty much only watch television when something I know I want to watch is on. If I don't have anything else to do I sometimes watch certain shows that are available On Demand.

3. How many hours do you spend in direct social interaction.

I go to school for six hours a day, and then interact with my family a little bit.

4. Try to recall all of the interactions from a single day.

First period I sit very close to some friends who joke around a lot, so I usually wind up joking around with them. It's also one of my more difficult classes, so I have to work hard to pay attention and not start daydreaming or drawing, especially since it's so early in the morning.

Second is a little less interactive, since it's art. Most of the time I get to just work on my series while listening to music, which right now is like daydreaming and drawing. But if we have a critique I contribute to that.

I have a lot of friends during third period and the teacher is very friendly, so I do interact with them. But it is also one the periods I am most able to daydream and record these stories in the story journal I keep.

Fourth period I don't interact with many people. I occasionally answer questions, but mostly I write, draw, or daydream.

If it's Friday  I go to manga club after school, where I am the leader so I have to interact with many people.

5. From that day, now include all television interaction you can recall.

None, unless it's friday. In which case I get the TV for half an hour to watch Generator Rex.

6. Recall your most vivid day dream from today.  Frame it as far back as you can including the situation that brought the dream to your mind.

It would be daydreams of the universe I am basing my series for art around. It's a beautiful world that I don't feel like I can acuratly describe in words, which if why I am doing paintings of it. But I can say that it is an endless space of "air" or "sky" with amazing "land" masses that float through it. The masses grow, die, and combine with each other. Because of the way light reacts with the force that keeps that masses floating, draws them together, and keeps them apart, the "sky" is many many diffrent shifting colors. There is a "solid wind" that causes shifts in the light and color. The forms come from a series of very very vivid daydreams I had a while ago. The endless space part comes from a daydream I had when I was working on studies for the series. In it i reach the edge of one of the floating landmasses after some hard hiking. The sight of the forms floating in endless space and shifting colors is amazing. Then I spread my arms that are powerful wings and begin to fly. The feeling of flying and the idea of flight is very prominent in the daydreams where I am the "main character."

7. While writing through these interactions what felt the most real?

 The feeling of flight and the vision of shifting colors and endless space.