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(Same topic crops up on web page 'Get Closer to Your Fantasies)

GMSMA EVENING November 13th '97 =
Get closer to your fantasies through visualisation ... and
support them with visual aids?
Lecture demo with discussion to follow.

THESE ARE MY NOTES TO 'PROMPT' MYSELF WHILE TALKING.

Introduce the evening and the topic =

Visualisation ... since I was a kid the process of constructing a scenario in my own mind ... trying to make it seem real = Day dreaming (?) ...
... visualising a fantasy so vividly I could enter into it ... get off on it.

It was inevitable that I went into theatre as a profession as a director and writer =
... visualising a fantasy and making it real enough for other people to enter it ... AND ... and get them to lose themselves in it ... believe (for a while) that it's real.

This is what a lot of people do already when masturbating ...
some more than others ... fantasise - visualise.
As children we're often told that to day-dream is bad for you ...
it can ruin your life ... or your eyesight.
To visualise vividly in a structured way ... this I call 'The Theatre of the Mind's eye'.

Getting a fantasy into stronger focus:
Too often our imagery stay deliciously vague ... generalised ...
we keep some options open ... play it by ear in our minds ...
Spoilt for choice because a lot of different things turn us on.

Whether it is a determined jack-of fantasy or ... a gentle daydream ... how often have you lost focus ... not been quite clear if it was a leather or rubber whatever ...
or if he was tall and blonde or chunky, dark and hairy?

Focus ... concentration.
Nothing to do with being picky or being too fixed in our ideas ...
just choosing our preferences ... specifically ... on this occasion.
Next time around you might change the props or costumes or location ... in your Mind's Eye.
It is the details that bring the picture alive.
The details are what support the fantasy.
Which brings us to the subject of ...

Audio-visual back-up.
This evening isn't going to be all talk ....
and, as you can see there are a few people standing around looking eager - or nervous ...
They're here to add substance to the ideas I'd like to explore with you.

We're living in an age when support for our private fantasies is at our fingertips ...
... technologically speaking.
Audio-visual back-up necessarily not as technical as it sounds; ...
the magazine photos, contact ads, phone sex lines, web sites, chat-rooms, e-mail, home videos, screen grabbers, digital cameras, CD roms ...
... the paraphernalia of fantasy support.
Everything depends on how we use them ... not jut the imagination we bring to them ...
but the Process ... the specific approach ... the focus.

Using visual stimulants;
Since I was a kid I've been buying magazines and then flipping between pages to create the illusion that ...
... the guy I liked the look of on page 10 ... was doing what the guy on page 20 was doing
... only, doing it with the guy on page 2.
Very frustrating.
I vandalised so many magazines making scrap-book pages ...
... gathering images that pushed my buttons ... which appealed to my personal taste ...
I wanted to get them together on one page I could beat off over.

Well ... today with our scanners and PCs and Pagemaker ...
... the world is our oyster.
Same with videos ... we used to live with one finger hovering between fast-forward and freeze frame.
Today, how many people lift clips and make montage sequences to satisfy their personal taste ... or lack of it.

Our objective ... Whether it is orgasm or just mental relaxation ... the PROCESS ...
by which we arrive at it ... should be mentally and physically rewarding ... stimulating
The bringing together - the selecting - composing - structuring - creativity

I hope I don't sound as if I'm intellectualising what is ... a natural everyday process.
Tonight the aim is to explore the different ways different people 'visualise'' ...
and not just during solo jerk off sessions but
... collaborative fantasising
... shared scenario building
... structured role play ... having first selected a defined range of imagery.

= A vast subject
... and because of limited time I'm going to take a few questions before deciding where to spend the most time.

CONTINUE TO VISUALISATION WORKSHOP (2)

COMPARE THESE NOTES WITH 'GET CLOSER TO YOUR FANTASIES' and rationalise
ALSO SEE Introduction to 'SCENARIO FOR A LEATHER FANTASY" FILE FOR DIFFERENT SLANT ON SAME TOPIC