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Hello SG-land.

Time for an update, methinks.
Well, last time I wrote to you, two things were on my mind:

My best friend Emma wasn't talking to me, which put me into a really shit place for a while. But I have spoken to her since, and I think everything's okay, but we have yet to meet in person, and it's going to be a bit awkward until we do becuase we need to have a bit of an argument and it's not easy over the phone. She has basically had real pressure from work and had no time to herself even, but it still dopesn't explain her making no effort to get in touch with me at all when as far as I knew she was meant to be moving in with us. Etc. I won't bother going into much more detail for risk of boring you.

And the second thing was Lounge on the Farm Festival. Absolutely the best weekend I can remember having in time! I spent the whole weekend getting stoned in the reggae tent and drinking chai, and going to watch a gig if I could be bothered. It was phenomenal. Lasting memory: live psychedelic music + mushrooms = funtimes!

Obligatory band recommendations:

Anyway, now those things are more in the distance of my memory.
So on to new news:

Last night, I succeeded in accompishing something I have long been attempting: A self-induced deep-regression trance.
Sounds nuts? Was nuts!
It was sort of a cross between a memory and a lucid dream.
I basically missed a night's sleep on Thursday, then after work on Friday I came home (I knew that my flat-mates where going to be out) and put on a playlist of music which has especially strong connections to a particular time, lit some candles, and meditated. I was asleep. I don't know how I know but I'm sure I wasn't. I was just able to replay these memories over and over and almost interact with them. I know remember them in so much stronger detail than I ever could before. That's what surprised me the most - the amount of detail your mind stores of your memories, which you can never normally recall when reembering something normally.

I think it helped being able to lucid dream. It's almost like you're falling asleep, but you let the music guide you toward certain thoughts, andif you've chosen strong enough songs, your conscious and unconscious are both heading the same way, and then all of a sudden it's like a dream, the memory is there in front of you like a dream. Hence lucid dreaming helping, because it allows you to jump into it and not just let it happen like a dream.

I don't know... It was pretty emotional. When I snapped back into reality, I felt so moved by it. I'm certainly going to be trying it again, and I'd thoroughly recommend it!

Apart from that, I've just been working a lot lately. So much editing!!!! We've been finishing off a lot of projects, and now I'm back on the feature film again, which is cool. Although I'm itching to make something of my own! My producer is helping me develop a short film to shoot this Autumn so that she can use it to raise funds for my feature film, so that should be cool.

One of our web jobs has gone live; I did the animations for the website of mercieca, an ad agency in London - it's at www.mercieca.co.uk so have a look and let me know what you think!

Umm... that's all for now I think. I'll write again soon.

Much love.

=)

xxxX