pezar wrote:
aghogday wrote:
I will never risk losing my pro-social emotions again, if I can help it, and oxytocin way of connecting to other human beings, as I now understand what it is like to be devoid of them for 5 years, and part of the reason this is my 40th week of rave dancing with hundreds of college age folks at age 54, is science shows now this increases both human pro-social strength of positive emotions and oxytocin connection in the human connection that science suggests IS the number one source of human happiness, overall.
I remember the heyday of raves. Was friends with one of San Francisco's top trance spinners, who got me in to several big raves. Loved the music, HATED the drugs. 20 year olds with their brains cooking on meth and a dozen different psychoactive substances, dancing like robots, chewing on baby pacifiers to keep their teeth from wearing down and breaking-ecstasy makes you grind your teeth. It also makes you feel like you're hypothermic. Finally I bailed on the dances and enjoyed mix tapes and late night radio dance shows, Wild 107.7 in SF had an excellent dance mix that went late into the night, I would light up a blacklight bulb, open the windows and allow streetlight lights to shine in, and surf the net and talk online with a girl in Detroit I had a LDR with.
No drugs for me, all natural high for me, but rarely does a dance night pass, when someone does not ask me what I'm on from Molly to Cocaine to LSD, as I dance 3 to 4 hours straight in a REALLY FAST MARTIAL ARTS AND BALLET style WAY no one has ever seen before, by their report, not mine, and me without even a break or a drink of water.
Yes, I glide across the floor like a ballerina on ice skates, at around 6FT and 232LBS of muscle.
Truly there is no way I could do it, if I did not condition myself hours a day seven days a week.
It is what I do, and others take the short cut to truly nowhere in my opinion, when they do drugs.
I love the music and the dance but I do wear hearing protection in the way of ear plugs, as I value my hearing. ;)