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lb_leeWhile reading about a cosmonaut, we suddenly had a few ideas gel together.
"Psychonaut" and "psychonautics" do technically describe some of what we do (just with our own batshit, rather than meditation, drugs, etc.), but we never found it a satisfying term. Then our brain suddenly thought of the word "psychosmonaut," which immediately spawned a few other related, in hindsight obvious terms:
Psycosmos: headspace. The internal universe, itself ordered by its own laws and structures.
Psycosmogony: the theories as to how the headspace came to be.
Psycosmography: the study and depiction of the structures and rules of the headspace.
Psycosmonaut: any tenant of the headspace, or someone unusually adept at navigating it.
Psycosmopolis: a headspace city made up of people from many universes.
Normally we try to avoid making up new words, but these jived with our long-simmering ideas that our headspace doesn't exist for our convenience, that it is not an inanimate tool or inert backdrop for our psychodramas, but a living, growing, changing environment with its own desires, needs, and purposes, independent of its inhabitants. That it should be taken seriously, and seen as something worth studying and paying close attention to.
It helps that we have Rawlin back, and she is clearly a groundskeeper of the place.
"Psychonaut" and "psychonautics" do technically describe some of what we do (just with our own batshit, rather than meditation, drugs, etc.), but we never found it a satisfying term. Then our brain suddenly thought of the word "psychosmonaut," which immediately spawned a few other related, in hindsight obvious terms:
Psycosmos: headspace. The internal universe, itself ordered by its own laws and structures.
Psycosmogony: the theories as to how the headspace came to be.
Psycosmography: the study and depiction of the structures and rules of the headspace.
Psycosmonaut: any tenant of the headspace, or someone unusually adept at navigating it.
Psycosmopolis: a headspace city made up of people from many universes.
Normally we try to avoid making up new words, but these jived with our long-simmering ideas that our headspace doesn't exist for our convenience, that it is not an inanimate tool or inert backdrop for our psychodramas, but a living, growing, changing environment with its own desires, needs, and purposes, independent of its inhabitants. That it should be taken seriously, and seen as something worth studying and paying close attention to.
It helps that we have Rawlin back, and she is clearly a groundskeeper of the place.
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Date: 2025-03-19 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-19 03:59 pm (UTC)Hiraeth
Date: 2025-03-19 01:24 pm (UTC)Re: Hiraeth
Date: 2025-03-19 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-19 01:33 pm (UTC)Psycosmopolis: a headspace city made up of people from many universes.
I made up a fictional setting for myself once that involves something like this. Shall I babble about it to you?
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Date: 2025-03-19 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-19 05:37 pm (UTC)Ahahahahahaha
So I was thinking about planets with more elliptical orbits, such as that one was only in the habitable zone for 3/4 of each year. So the people there hibernate together for that 1/4 of the year.
Because of this and other reasons they developed telepathy and grew tails/didn't lose their tails. So during that 1/4 of the year they inhabit a "city of the mind" together. Like a shared dreamscape.
I wrote a ficlet once about a couple who fell in love during that time period but when they woke up they couldn't remember each other's physical locations! So they spent the rest of the year waiting for the City of Dreams again so they could find each other again.
Ahahahaha I haven't managed to write anything else in this setting but I do like it for daydreaming.
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Date: 2025-03-21 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-22 03:14 pm (UTC)blush Thank you. :) Feel free to borrrow it in whole or in part.