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I was watching this teenage fantasy show on Netflix called Locke and Key and there was this one thing in it I thought was very cool. They're in a house with all these magical keys and one of the keys lets you open a door into someone's brain.
You walk in and it's a house or a building or a just a room that's an exteriorization of that person's mind. Thoughts and memories are organized in there and sensibilities decorate the walls. At one point they walk into the brain of a senile woman and it's all overgrown with weeds and vines in there.
It made me think of a post on Luka's blog:
And then it made me think of other representations of this effect. In Silence of the Lambs, Bufallo Bill's lair as the externalisation of his pathology. This dark and foul basement, the supressed sins, sinister lusts. Cold, clammy walls, mold growing like a cancer in the mind, total corruption and debasement of the spirit. All these mannequins, plastic identities fragmented, rejection of the soul, complete nihilism.
Examples or discussion of the deeper lying mechanics of this effect. Maybe you've experienced something like this in the real world?
You walk in and it's a house or a building or a just a room that's an exteriorization of that person's mind. Thoughts and memories are organized in there and sensibilities decorate the walls. At one point they walk into the brain of a senile woman and it's all overgrown with weeds and vines in there.
It made me think of a post on Luka's blog:
the door to the teenage bedroom is always closed as it is the first space we learn to expand into. within those limits we extend consciousness beyond the skull walls. it is a training programme.
And then it made me think of other representations of this effect. In Silence of the Lambs, Bufallo Bill's lair as the externalisation of his pathology. This dark and foul basement, the supressed sins, sinister lusts. Cold, clammy walls, mold growing like a cancer in the mind, total corruption and debasement of the spirit. All these mannequins, plastic identities fragmented, rejection of the soul, complete nihilism.
Examples or discussion of the deeper lying mechanics of this effect. Maybe you've experienced something like this in the real world?