You're thinning latex paint with water, right?

My buddy Jake tried a VR concert last year and said his forehead was red for like an hour afterward. He was super into it for the first few songs, yelling with a bunch of floating heads, but then said the whole thing just felt kind of lonely. I mean, he took the headset off to get a drink and was just back in his quiet kitchen, and he said he didn't even want to put it back on. It's that switch from the fake crowd to your empty room that kills it, idk.

Feel that hard. I've done the same thing, pretending stuff doesn't hurt until it just gets heavy.

Algorithms worked fine until they learned my bad taste.

That storm ocean thing would totally backfire for me too. But those intense visuals are actually what makes meditation stick for me. If I'm told to picture a generic "calm place," my mind just wanders. But something super specific, like imagining every detail of a mossy forest clearing after rain, fully pulls me out of my own head. The guide's job is to give you a strong anchor, and for some of us, gentle stuff is too easy to ignore.