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From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Earlier while walking in the Carysfort-Ardagh dimension, and I realised the possibility of creating totems relating to spontaneous awareness moments, such as losing the game it happening, or suddenly remembering the words “A Magical trumpet called Bill”. An early prototype of such a device was created in David Kennedy’s bedroom where the words “Oh shit, I just lost the game” written on a wall ensured everyone who saw them also would. Similar devices could include a tattoo that would continually remind the wearer to lose the game, become task aware, self aware or to experience deja vú. Other possibilities that exist are to bind these awareness moments to existing objects (say for example someone who is frequently in town could associate the Dimensional Transfunctioner with losing the game)

I had long harboured a desire to spontaneously evoke these moments. Other nonsense moments such as occasionally thinking of the Virgin Mary, then thinking, why do I always randomly think of this? (followed by remembering that I always do this sequence, and remembering that I remembering it and so on until I feel I have rearrived at my life’s centre of gravity and then eventually getting distracted) perforate my early life. In first year in UCD I would experience A Magical Trumpet Called Bill at certain random times while drunk, until finally I remembered him while sober, and that was a weird feeling. Another example of this is the thoughts people sometimes have just before they fall asleep. You might suddenly think, do I always think of [this thought] before I fall asleep? Perhaps we do experience the same thought just before sleep occurs, it would seem impossible to know since conscious memory shuts down just before sleep. Certainly the desire to make these events more frequent and to to some extent carry over the positive effects awareness causes in these moments to daily, regular, symbol focused existence is a central aim of the Ultimate Comment and the quest to Discover the Secret Of The Universe.

I saw Leaf Man on my walk. He is an insaner from one of the various mental institutions in the Carysfort area. He runs around with his arms strangely outstretched down and to the side, and grabs leaves from bushes and carves little faces in them. I’ve seen him in town, near the Radisson but usually he’s visible in west Blackrock at any time of the day. Later when I returned to the area for a second walk, I experienced psychic synaesthesia, and could see hear, taste and smell every object and person in the estate. It was a bit mad.