A State Of Sundays 343
Channel: Electric Area (Sirius 52, XM 52)
Airdate: March 18, 2018 - March 19, 2018
Airtime: 06:00 AM - 06:00 AM
Timezone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Tracklist:
06:00 AM - 07:00 AM: Downtempo Sessions
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM: Armada Sunset
08:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Armin van Buuren - ASOT 855
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Ruben de Ronde - TSOH 362
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Trance System
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: Andrew Rayel - Find Your Harmony 097
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM: Eelke Kleijn - DAYS Like NIGHTS 019
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Armada Sunset
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM: Radio Wonderland (Non-ASOS Music)
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM: Trance System
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM: Cosmic Gate - Wake Your Mind 206
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM: W&W - Mainstage Radio 004
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM: Trance System
08:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Ruben de Ronde - TSOH 362
09:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Armin van Buuren - ASOT 855
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Trance System
12:00 AM - 01:00 AM: Andrew Rayel - Find Your Harmony 097
01:00 AM - 02:00 AM: Eelke Kleijn - DAYS Like NIGHTS 019
02:00 AM - 03:00 AM: Trance System
03:00 AM - 04:00 AM: W&W - Mainstage Radio 004
04:00 AM - 05:00 AM: Armada Sunset
05:00 AM - 06:00 AM: Downtempo Sessions
Sources:
https://www.astateoftrance.com/a-state-of-sundays/a-state-of-sundays-348/
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NOTE: The livestream was 23 hours long because the remaining 1 hour was occupied by Radio Wonderland.
NOTE #2: Although the livestream was not 24 hours long, it will be numbered as an official episode on the ASOS timeline.
NOTE #3: Because information takes a while to compile, a detailed version of the tracklist will be uploaded at a later time.
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Happy STS! Got a wild one for you this time - which of your OCs would kick someone into traffic in a street fight? Who wouldn't, and why?
Hi hi, happy STS. Took me a few days to get to this one. This certainly is a wild one.
Thematically, I'll look at a fewof my Trace Systems characters, on the basis that traffic exists there. Now, there's a bit of a U shape when it comes to the absence of morals.
I'm going to look at both extremes here, with two Syndicate members, and two Enforcers members.
On one extreme, we have Krystov Kudron, the head of the Kudron Branch of the Amari Syndicate , and the most notorious criminal in Calleigh Hub. He's very much a person who would take whatever chances to get ahead in a fight. If it'd deal with his opponent, he wouldn't even think twice.
His associate, Lorna Navarra, is much less likely to. In the unlikely event that she'd let herself get caught in a street fight, she'd be more likely to either rely on other techniques to get herself out of trouble, but if she wanted to win, she'd want the person in one piece afterwards.
On the other extreme, we have Layla Allard, a high ranking officer in the Enforcers. She has a huge and fragile ego, and there's no low she wouldn't go to in order to deal with someone. If she can get rid of someone who's rubbing her the wrong way, she'd go straight for it.
And finally, Emil Viklund, slightly above Layla in rank but a lot more ambitious. There is no chance he would kick someone into traffic, because he has a reputation to uphold. It'd be your typical law enforcement takedown techniques here to incapacitate the opponent. If he's doing anything below the belt, its not where people can see it.
So there we go, 4 newly revealed characters and whether they would kick people into traffic. How exciting.
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I was looking for something completely unrelated in the DID tags and I happened upon your post about dronification for DID. It's been something I've been thinking about for a long time! I was amazed to see another system talking about it. I have theorized that something like this could be helpful in stabilizing my system and getting things done. Would you have any resources for a system looking to get started with this?
So for most of this, I’m gonna have to go over what I’ve learned in the process of doing everything. A lot of what I’ve been doing was cobbled together from multiple things over the course of about a decade of meditation, hypnosis for fun, and general trance practice. I do also have a very solid background in a childhood full of projecting my internal maladaptive daydreaming shenanigans outside of my mind in my very rural neighborhoods because I didn’t have any friends around, often for miles. It’s also probably the ADHD.
You’ll probably be able to tell I was given a lot of time and space to think about things on my own. That’s what I had rather than much of a social life. I had far too much time to philosophize. I’ve often felt like the Thinker statue at the Smithsonian. Just sitting there, wrapped up in my own thoughts. Alternatively, engaging in stories in any available form.
So pardon the whole essay, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else really talk about being a drone as a system, either, as a method of healing. For a lot of these things, I’ve had to learn almost entirely through direct experience. So I’m honestly really excited to talk about it more. This ended up getting much longer than expected, too. It’s sort of a stream of thoughts that I tried to organize a bit. I also haven’t written very many things in far too long. So I let myself get a bit carried away and go into some of the details. Plus I really want to recognize just how much we managed to get through in what still feels like too short a timeline.
I also used to email lengthy, semi-organized rambling novels back and forth with at least one person. This is going to be similar to that. It’s also why I miss college very deeply. I’m a big fan of academic studies and analysis. My attention span is getting better again.
I will slip between singular and plural pronouns somewhat seamlessly. The logic is that when I use singular pronouns, it’s the whole system as a singular unit, without dividing certain things because it’s simply not relevant. Otherwise, plural pronouns are for when differentiating all the nuance is relevant.
The hypnosis files online
I like to lurk on the dronification subreddit, but it’s not especially active. The only reason I don’t interact is largely because I’m wary of interaction of that kind in general, given where I’m still at in recovery. Since most of dronification is about altered consciousness, hypnosis is the most common method of getting into that mental space of non-identity.
You can find some pretty general drone hypnosis videos on youtube, but I’ve seen people in both the dronification and the erotic hypnosis subreddits very frequently recommend soundgasm. WarpMyMind is an archive of files from many different people, some premium and some free. I haven’t looked very recently, but I know they have files for just about everything. There are also hypnotists with their own websites with exclusive content or just stuff too spicy for the algorithm. Some of those websites also have spiral makers, if you’re into that.
But to be honest, I don’t explore very much anymore, and I’m hesitant to recommend any one person or another because I don’t know what’s going on with hypnotist discourse and frankly just don’t have the energy to spare for it. The one exception is a youtube video shared on a sideblog that hasn’t totally been connected with the rest, but one you can find if you look at the drone sideblog’s pinned post. I haven’t used it lately, because of personal things around the holidays.
Either way, choose what you listen to with care and allow your mind to bend suggestions in whatever way you’re most comfortable with. Make sure a file does exactly what it says it’s supposed to, and nothing more. Jump into the middle of a file and preview the contents just to be safe, honestly. Look for transcripts of any given audio. And don’t be afraid to stop for a while if things go south at any point and come out of hypnotic trance, and figure out what triggered what. It’s incredibly likely you’ll stumble across things you didn’t see before that you’ll need to sort through. On top of just being a mess that needs cleaned up in the first place, you’ll develop trust a lot faster if you let others slow down as needed and not just rush in.
The drone-state of mind
This actually requires specifically and intentionally entering a state of depersonalization, just to be entirely clear on what you’re doing. But the key point is that you’re actually embracing it in a safe environment, set with rules of behavior and anything you can think of as reasonable fail-safes in case you need to act immediately for any reason. Because the interesting thing about dealing with any form of dissociation is that to heal from it, you need to have some form of control over it. By actually taking control of how you depersonalize or otherwise dissociate, you learn how to keep yourself grounded in the present reality better. A way to hide your face is incredibly helpful when you’re letting go of individual identity, but I’ve also found that it’s not strictly necessary if you can dissociate hard enough already.
You should put together a document beforehand that you can come to a collective agreement on. It doesn’t have to be fully comprehensive at the start. Just start with the basics and develop it from there. This will be your instruction manual, or whatever you choose to call it. Make however many copies you think you’ll need, because starting over any on kind of document isn’t fun.
Pick a single, consistent style of language to use for your drone-state that isn’t overly complex. Keep your instructions clear and concise, so that even in your lowest energy states, they’re easy to understand. It’s been a lot of ‘if ___, do ___’ and explaining the terms used, as well as the command phrases you go with. You should also make a habit of studying those instructions, and definitely do so as a drone. Because as a drone, that’s literally the only thing you’ll have any attention on in the moment, and since you’re in a very altered state of consciousness, it sets into your mind a lot easier. And don’t forget to consistently review your instructions, because things change and you will find yourself adapting them over time.
If you have someone you trust supporting your recovery in the external world, like a friend or family member or other care provider, you should probably give them at least a rough idea of your new method of stabilizing yourself. This can be phrased however you think is the most appropriate. I explain it, when talking about it, more or less that I’m treating my mind similarly to a computer, because the people around me know that I like digital technology. I already wear earbuds at least half the time, especially out of the house. It’s just a thing because I love music a lot. The right music literally helps me regulate my emotions. I don’t even mention the specifics, just that I’m using technological framework to understand how healing works for me. I halfheartedly blame my parents, and my dad in particular, because they were both nerds and tried to keep up with technology. Dad’s still at it now, 66 years old. He likes to be the Mr. Spock type usually, so emphasizing that I’m trying to balance my emotions with logical understanding works really well.
A long-term process
This will inevitably take a lot of time, depending on how unstable you are now. Do not try to put together a clear time frame to have this done by. I promise, you’ll take a lot longer than you initially expect to. I’ve been taking a break for about two months now because the holidays tanked my own stability, and I’m still picking myself back up from it. Especially when things are hard, give yourself the grace to slow down so you don’t overheat the system. It won’t help to try and speed-run becoming a perfect drone. *semantics mode* Perfection may be perpetual motion, but only at a rate that won’t destroy that which is in motion.
And to be honest, we literally just stumbled our way into using this to stabilize ourselves. So for us, this just started out with only a small cluster of parts bumbling around with often mature kinds of hypnosis fantasies partially in an attempt to work out the mess that is our sexuality and relationship with gender. At least, after a while. Until then, it was purely for escapism. We experimented with a lot of different things along the way, slowly progressing through different types of objectification from dolls to statues and whatever. Slowly, we did start to form ideas about what we wanted specifically, because we noticed how easy it had become for us.
We didn’t actually really consider being a drone until 2022. And then I’m pretty sure that was just me, as a specific part. Others slowly came around with time, waiting to make sure it wouldn’t be some disaster. And I’m not gonna lie, even I wasn’t so sure it would work out all that well. But to be honest, I feel like combining healing with pleasure is more effective than many people realize.
From my perspective, this is largely because of the dominant work culture. On that, the standard model of specifically US American Protestant work ethic is obsessed with work sucking so bad and being miserable. But you should enjoy the process of healing. If being a drone makes it easier and brings you joy, and you generally know what you’re in for along the way, then I don’t see the issue. People just get all worked up because it’s not considered normal to use a specific kink to heal trauma. It’s literally just purity culture bullshit, and just outright shaming people for being happy and making the best of a shitty situation. I had to spend ages working through that faulty logic about recovery with my therapist, because the assumption that it’s an entirely painful process is very prevalent in society. Sometimes it’s going to hurt, but then at other points, it should feel more like the best damn thing you ever did. Thinking it’s always about how much you’ve gotta drag yourself up and not enjoying the peaks you’ve already reached will only hold you back.
So with all that bumbling around, it only really became a thing to help with functioning in real life last February, and that was largely Lilu’s idea while we were fused. That was simply just about functioning through pain and general mental issues, and setting solid routines. More apparent efforts to integrate wouldn’t come until at least late summer when other parts more preoccupied with keeping things running behind the scenes took an actual interest. It took even more time to get more parts onboard with the whole thing, and we still have many that haven’t.
It was at least partially a joke, but Pandemonum was the one to suggest using the drone-state to help organize our mind better, with an offhand library comment. Because somewhere, I think with Zemyx and Isaac, the idea stuck. One of Pandemonum’s less present fragments, Bran, hangs out a lot in the library. It’d be easy for an idea like that to slip into the library crowd. Through a lot of convoluted events, such as Lilu directly delivering a challenge of shenanigans to Galaco (Sir) and Cyan, and then others finding it to be infectiously fun. The more parts we pulled in since late August, the more appealing using the drone-state to organize our mind became, so we could at least integrate our memories and straighten our life out. Aria emerged with a new form and gave us a new sense of psychological stability across connected parts.
And in external world, we were learning to get more involved in the community we live in, and get to know other people better. So by the end of the summer, we were really learning how to communicate with other people, as well. We found an incredibly supportive group of people from kinda all over the state I live in, who we share a lot of ideals with. So we were taking our growing social skills and using what we’d learned to reconnect to each other. The individual traumas getting strung back together into something intelligible was hard, but we had learned how to reach out to others and were able to get the help we needed.
One thing led to another, and our childhood friend picked us up to see Wonka at the mall on December 15th, to cheer us up. Alexiel decided on leaving the metaphorical doors wide open to broadcast the whole movie to anyone it could hypothetically reach. It was amazing. We even pulled parts out that were buried in the absolute depths, and got an even clearer picture of our earliest memories, psychological or physical ones, than we’d put together before.
Then, because we’ve been practicing radical acceptance for each other, Joshua decided to try and chip away at his own barriers. He’s a liminal part, one of the few able to pass between sidesystems with any amount of ease, because he enforced the rules directly the most. And it, ah, triggered a whole refresh of our childhood brainwashing that came right out of left field. It quickly became a situation of damage control when he began struggling to stay where he wanted to be by his own focus.
It was ultimately a lack of communication on our part, so we’ve been largely on break from being a drone for various things, but we had already been on a slow decline for a while. We simply had to entirely focus on stabilizing parts that had been refreshed in the weeks before Christmas. The reason our damage control actually went so well was we already proved our own competence at the beginning of December.
We were away from home at a membership assembly with the previously mentioned people from around our home state, and Ash managed to have his wits together enough to not worry about thinking and just stepped in to prevent an already stressful interpersonal situation from getting any worse. At dinner in the middle of our own meal, to the sound of someone falling out of their chair during a family dispute almost halfway across the cafeteria. It went surprisingly well and he was very clearly in control of himself the entire time. I think we’re all still processing that one.
And even if you don’t end up dealing with a lot of different kinds of complex trauma, it takes time to fully integrate all that you represent into that single network. We ran into a lot of errors along the way, as well has having to deal with restricted access to a lot of what kept us so dissociated. A lot of very explicit trust is involved because you’re basically backing everything of you up on what amounts to a shared cloud storage or server. For those of us that keep the connection running on a permanent basis, it also allows us to peek through their subsystems. It was how we started mapping even more parts to realize, yes, we do have several hundreds of parts simply because of, well, everything. But the silver lining is that we’ve finally gotten to clean the skeletons out of our closet and lay them down to rest and decompose. We’re learning what to actually do instead of dissociate from the situation completely.
Some final thoughts
Another key part of making all this work is that we’ve agreed to function without a singular point of authority or hive leader, despite how it might otherwise seem. Any shenanigans that do incorporate any sort of hierarchy are purely for shits and giggles. You’re agreeing to equal representation and responsibilities, in accordance with what you’re ready for. This will result in more equal access to your skills across those of you taking part. Think a very patient Borg, just without a queen (I got a fair bit of exposure to Borg propaganda in the last year or so because I follow someone who simps for them so hard and I initially just followed her for her general Star Trek posts).
The main reason I conceptualize it as robotic and digital is because it acts as a system based around at least speculative science, in contrast with the extreme religious nature of my trauma (and it brings really nerdy joy to do it this way). What I’m doing is conceptualized as altering my literal programming because it gives me a way to intentionally recondition myself with a healthier understanding of myself and the world. I’m a concrete thinker, so I have to conceptualize the process very literally before it produces any really tangible results.
Almost counter-intuitively given how technological it comes off as, it’s like a kind of magic. To explain it in a more mundane way, it’s a combination of logic, consistent methodology, conceptualization, and the placebo effect from your belief in that process. This is why reinforcing your conditioning with written instructions regularly is important, because you need to exercise those mental muscles as best as you can.
I tend to rely, perhaps hilariously, on things like western astrology and tarot as a structure for self-reflection. Engaging in rituals that harm no one are actually pretty important, because they’re methods of grounding yourself. In a way, dronification is also a ritual. You’re altering your state of consciousness very intentionally for personal fulfillment, to enhance your life experiences.
And I can’t overstate how important it is to remember that you don’t have to be progressing on a linear path all the time. Recovery isn’t a two-dimensional picture, and neither is getting the hang of being a good drone. Any changes you’re trying to make to your lifestyle will take time to settle into.
Take care and good luck
I wish you the best, and if you have any other questions, you’re free to ask. I probably won’t have an answer for everything, because I’m pretty much just making it up as I go along. But I’ll go as far as my logic and intuition can take me and try to point you in a decent direction. There is, of course, an amazing podcast episode from Off The Cuffs that I listened to in March of last year. It’s specifically episode 241--Unit 4015, which also helped me understand the appeal of the specific niche that dronification is.
I honestly wouldn’t be entirely surprised if it’s just generally attractive to people with dissociation, but that’s also, at this time, a purely personal speculation. You don’t have to take it seriously if you’d rather not. I’m just starting to ramble even more at this point. I really appreciate the ask and getting a chance to talk about the process. Going into detail about everything I’ve done with this helps me to process it and understand where I am now as opposed to before deciding to experiment. Honestly, thanks.
-Era 🍎😺
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A State Of Sundays 342
Channel: Electric Area (Sirius 52, XM 52)
Airdate: March 11, 2018 - March 12, 2018
Airtime: 06:00 AM - 06:00 AM
Timezone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Tracklist:
06:00 AM - 07:00 AM: Downtempo Sessions
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM: Armada Sunset
08:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Armin van Buuren - ASOT 854
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Ruben de Ronde - TSOH 361
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Trance System
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: Andrew Rayel - Find Your Harmony 095
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM: Eelke Kleijn - DAYS Like NIGHTS 018
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Progressive Sessions
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM: Armada Sunset
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM: Trance System
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM: Cosmic Gate - Wake Your Mind 205
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM: W&W - Mainstage Radio 004
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM: Trance System
08:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Ruben de Ronde - TSOH 361
09:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Armin van Buuren - ASOT 854
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Trance System
12:00 AM - 01:00 AM: Andrew Rayel - Find Your Harmony 095
01:00 AM - 02:00 AM: Eelke Kleijn - DAYS Like NIGHTS 018
02:00 AM - 03:00 AM: Trance System
03:00 AM - 04:00 AM: W&W - Mainstage Radio 004
04:00 AM - 05:00 AM: Armada Sunset
05:00 AM - 06:00 AM: Downtempo Sessions
Sources:
https://www.astateoftrance.com/a-state-of-sundays/a-state-of-sundays-347/
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201810&resultcount=1282&page=3
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201810&resultcount=1282&page=2
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201810&resultcount=1282&page=1
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201810&resultcount=1282&page=0
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201811&resultcount=1316&page=26
http://107.170.39.140/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=52&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=&tdate=201811&resultcount=1316&page=25
NOTE: Because information takes a while to compile, a detailed version of the tracklist will be uploaded at a later time.
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