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Getting Trapped In Your Own Creation (Hypersigil)

04:56 / 03.12.02

I don't know if you could call this a hypersigil because I wrote it even before I knew what hypersigils were (even though, it could be said that I'm still not too clear on the subject) but, um, this is a story about how I got trapped in my story.
Almost 5 years ago I wrote a rather bad short story for class answering the question: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" I wrote about ending up as an English teacher in my old middle school. There was no real intent behind this story aside from being ironic and funny. Now flash forward to now... five years later and I desperately need a better paying job. My uncle has provided an answer. He can pull some strings (in the story it was my aunt) and I can work as a sub in my old middle school until the paper work gets sorted out and I can officially start teaching. You can all imagine my horror! I don't really know what to do. Did create my own future simply by writing? If so, I need to start writing myself a cooler life! Or did I, on some level, know my future and this is simply a case of clairvoyance?

input please!

06:55 / 03.12.02

I don't know if this really qualifies as input but...

A friend of mine brought over the DVD version of Fight Club for Lionheart and me to watch. Well, one of the more interesting features of this bit is the running commentary in which Chuck (the author) and someone else (director?) comment on the movie. When we first see Bob (a.k.a. Meatloaf in a fat suit with bitch tits) in the testicular cancer support group, Chuck tells us an anecdote. Apparently a good portion of his friends were real heavy steroid using muscle builders back in the eighties. One of them is named Bob. See, the interesting bit here is that this real life Bob got testicular cancer. However this happened after Chuck wrote Fight Club. Hypersigil?

11:54 / 03.12.02

wow this is interesting!...(typing with one hand sorry about the no caps)

my first guess would be that you are clairvoyant, since you did not put your intent into this. then again, it is possible, i think, to inadvertantly charge something. maybe at the time of writing you were emotional giving this work an infusion of hypersigil rocket fuel.

i dunno imp, but in a way this is really cool. why don't you try writing what you really want?

hmm, an opportunity from the past? who would have guessed?

12:04 / 03.12.02

It was a dark and stormy night as Arcboi walked the corridors of his unfeasibly huge mansion.

He smiled as he reflected on his good fortune since winning £23 million pounds on the lottery the previous year. 'It's very true that money can't buy you happiness' he thought 'But it certainly doesn't make you unhappy....'. He looked out the window at his private Space Shuttle parked in the drive. The racing stripes were a nice touch. Perhaps he'd go for a spin in the morning.

And Arcboi lived happily ever after.....

The End

12:15 / 03.12.02

Nice try arcboi.

I would say, yes, you can answer all your questions just like you are doing. I was just writing to May about a woman I was in love with and with whom I experienced zillions of synchros and weirdness. Point is I wrote a lot of narrative fiction with her, short stories, a caricaturistic biography, and snaps of a novel that never came to be. So we were really charged, but I never linked the actual writing and the so many oddities until years later.

14:29 / 03.12.02

Right, I'm going to write myself a better life. A cool snap shot of my world in 2003.

Thanks for the input. And arcboi, thanks for the laugh, very cute.
Has anyone here tried to create a hypersigil?

14:32 / 03.12.02

Yup... I don't think it's strictly synchronicity. I had a similar thing happen years ago - I was in couples counseling in the process of getting divorced from the exhusb, and the counselor asked me to describe my ideal life, in detail... I talked a little about career and partnership, but a lot about living in a Victorian building with nice hardwood floors and cats and a potted palmtree in the window.

Fast-forward about 4 years, and I'm in San Francisco, in a lovely Victorian flat with cats and a little palm tree.

I'd completely forgotten about the counseling session until I looked around in that flat and it occurred to me that I'd gotten exactly what I'd described.

I'm beginning to believe that the Universe gives us what we desire.

14:59 / 03.12.02

I just rememberd this when I was talking to spidervirus:

Last year I grabbed an old story of mine from 2000 and remixed it by adding myself (as a time traveler from 2002) into it. I give the younger impressionable me a box of Invisible comics changing the course of his life forever... Now, when I was rereading my Invisibles (this year, 2003) I found the book store receipt in the Say You Want A Revolution trade (which I bought on a whim and that was out of character for back then cause I remember hating the art!) the Receipt which I was using as a bookmark had a date. I was rewriting the story from a disk but since it was for school the hardcopy, which I looked for and found, also had a date. It was the same day! I wrote the original story (without the sci-fi time travel element), took it to class, handed it in, went to get coffee or something at Barns&Noble, and was moved to buy the Invisibles trade, thus, changing the course of my life!!! Fucking weird, no? It's like having a retroactive time capsule!

15:09 / 03.12.02

Had to read that twice. Fucking interesting. Lovely.

15:11 / 03.12.02

Yeah sorry, it's a bit muddled but I'm at work and it's a hard thing to write about.

15:42 / 03.12.02

Hm... theory:

Writing stories or journal entries gets things out of your head onto an external memory core ('paper'). You no longer obsess over them. So, lust-of-result is vanquished, and (the universe // your subconscious) gets to work.

15:47 / 03.12.02

Great story, impulsive! And good cal, PerfectTommy! I wrote a little paragraph/bio of myself from the future recently -- I'm going to write some more bits like that.

16:05 / 06.12.02

BY: I was going to ask you about the whole concept of writing and magic and its influence on the environment. Could it be said that magic is interacting with the smallest building blocks we can comprehend? That somehow it influences the microscopic, whether its white bloodcells befriending cancer or rearranging coal to get diamond. How can fiction, storytelling and literal persuasion allow us to control the nanosphere? They'd need to work on this, the smallest of scales - how could fiction possibly have an influence on that realm?

So now we know... it's the bacteria that's making my fiction a reality!

What did you guys think of Grant Morrison's theories on writing and fiction? What are your theories?

16:56 / 06.12.02

I'm feeling dense. Has he ever actually come out and *described* his theories, or do you mean what we get picking things up from his work? (Note: I haven't read Animal Man, and I hear that the author-creation line gets incinerated in it.)

16:58 / 06.12.02

I'm talking about the bits of information he threw out during Yawn's interview. If you haven't read it, it's quite good. Scroll to the top of the page and click on interviews.

00:38 / 08.12.02

I want to write myself an interesting alter-ego... a Gerri Cornelius if you will. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to lay hands on any of the Jerry Cornelius books. Any particular character traits I should be thinking about (or avoiding like the plague!)?

05:26 / 08.12.02

I mean, Jerry Cornelius is cool and all, but I'm curious as you why you want to write yourself into a character you know nothing or very little about... you can do anything! Get creative!

I'm actually writing a new hypersigil for myself now... we'll see in about 3-6 months if it's worked.

12:49 / 08.12.02

Gerri Cornelius! That's brilliant!

Damn. Why didn't I think of that......

15:23 / 08.12.02

It's my feeling that this technology is a means of talking to reality in its own language, in that reality itself is a created construct, a meta-narrative. Techniques like this enable us to manipulate that code, because it's the author/text realtionship that governs everything. But then I believe in a creationist, interventionist God, so you may want to take everything I say with a pinch of salt.

18:34 / 08.12.02

My Gerri Cornelius is and always will be open source - enjoy.