nonordinary state

Description

A nonordinary state is a generic term for the special events emerging from the cracks in everyday’s safety net, temporarily forcing reason and common sense on sabbatical. Meditation, drugs, sudden insights, or even a simple doze at the wheel qualify. It’s a carnival where usually suppressed desires and fears are permitted to rampage legally, a miraculous time. In this realm, adventurers on their self-discovery return bearing souvenirs of vitality and confusion. Society calls it self-actualization or religious experience, but to the participant, it may simply be an alibi.

Definitions

• A theme park where the rules of ordinary life are temporarily suspended, and freedom and chaos arrive like tourists.
• An opportunity for suppressed reason-guards to take a vacation and let one’s true nature have its debut.
• An upgrade period that reboots the source code of consciousness, bugs and all.
• A special procedure that sets aside the burden of social responsibility and turns excuses into valid alibis.
• Often labeled as trance or flow, but in reality just an overstock clearance sale of panic.
• An experimental lab where the drug called creativity is legally sanctioned.
• A lawless zone where the ego runs rampant outside the confines of psychological security.
• A bazaar where clerics and psychedelic enthusiasts cheer at the same table.
• A passport officially permitting thoughts and actions normally banned.
• The ultimate self-help superweapon that inevitably produces regret and memoirs.

Examples

• “Nonordinary state? Oh, that’s just weekend yoga dressed up as sanctioned self-abandonment.”
• “This meditation retreat sells nonordinary states, but it’s really just a nap hideout.”
• “You can experience a nonordinary state without substances? Try morning commute.”
• “His self-help camp was just a group hallucination in disguise of a nonordinary state.”
• “Falling in love is a nonordinary state? I’ll concede that, but my wallet disagrees.”
• “Sudden insight? They say it’s just a side effect of a nonordinary state.”
• “People who never return from their nonordinary state are simply master alibi-makers.”
• “They call it a ‘religious experience,’ but it’s just free coffee and a story show.”
• “Work trance? Congrats, you’re now a member of the Lunch-Nap Censure Committee.”
• “Dreaming is better; a nonordinary state is like an emotional bidet.”
• “Meditation app? A timer-equipped sound machine promising nonordinary states.”
• “Her artwork is constructed from the wreckage of nonordinary states.”
• “Visions in the sauna? Perhaps it’s part of the nonordinary state manual.”
• “Teachings by a shady guru? It’s the express bus to nonordinary states.”
• “Alcohol is the bargain-bin version of a nonordinary state—instant awakening at convenience-store prices.”
• “Listening to user feedback? That’s a psychedelic nonordinary state.”
• “Every seminar selling nonordinary states mentions some ‘frequency’ nonsense.”
• “After meditation, I ended up in a convenience store… Nonordinary state bingo.”
• “Self-awakening? Probably just sleep deprivation masquerading as a nonordinary state.”
• “Waking from a nonordinary state leaves you with exhaustion and a credit card bill.”

Narratives

• At a mountain meditation retreat, a ’nonordinary state’ tour was a hit — in reality, it was just a forest nap event.
• He insisted he had entered a nonordinary state, and from the next day on unilaterally renounced all forms of responsibility.
• His smartwatch detected a spike in heart rate and announced ‘Nonordinary State Initiated,’ but it was just the elevator malfunctioning.
• She broadcast her revelations from a nonordinary state on social media, only to gain a flood of ad mails and allergy-prone followers.
• When the manager suggested ‘We should leverage a nonordinary state now,’ he was reassigned next week to quarantine duty.
• Meals during a nonordinary state tend to resemble life-support rations: instant noodles and chocolate.
• He kept a dream journal and was a bitter cynic who studied his own nonordinary states as academic subjects.
• A certain university institutionalized nonordinary states as a discipline, awarding the title ’eccentric’ to those who passed.
• His ‘Guide to Nonordinary States’ became a bestseller, but few ever bothered to read it.
• Nonordinary states are often dubbed ‘self-discovery,’ but mostly serve as excuses for drowsiness and confusion.
• At a psychedelic music festival, the organizer loudly announced ‘Everyone is in a nonordinary state today,’ but it was just a speaker test.
• Creativity in a nonordinary state is purely retrospective; to participants, it’s merely a pile of scattered documents.
• They believed they would save the world through nonordinary states, but they should’ve started by tidying their own rooms.
• Reports note a strange side effect of nonordinary states: somehow devouring an entire fridge’s contents.
• Urban legend says those who plunge into deep nonordinary states vanish for three days — in truth, it’s just smartphone addiction.
• At a Zen temple, nonordinary states are described as ‘just sitting,’ yet participants return home with mysterious fatigue.
• Recruitment pitches by cults had morphed into guided tours into nonordinary states.
• The research team attempted to replicate nonordinary states, but ended up studying sleep deprivation instead.
• A poem finally completed after a nonordinary state ended with the single line ‘I’m hungry.’
• Waking from a nonordinary state, he found unfamiliar socks and unsent emails scattered outside his window.

Related Terms

Aliases

• Consciousness Safari
• Brain Investment Fund
• Chaos All-Nighter
• Emotional Merry-Go-Round
• Soul Tourism Visa
• Delusion Circus
• Mind Theme Park
• Psyche Chaos Night
• Thought Break Room
• Hallucination Escalator
• Neural Coffee Break
• Introspection High Dive
• Mental Derailment
• Ego Rest Stop
• Reality Off Switch
• Corner of Transcendence
• Sensory Swimming Pool
• Consciousness Street Performance
• Meditation Labyrinth
• Night Introspection Chamber

Synonyms

• Mind Trip
• Interdimensional Vacation
• Psychic Flight
• Emotional Break
• Consciousness Debt
• Inner Zone
• Air Pocket of the Soul
• Hallucination Warp
• Paranormal Mode
• Ego Reset
• Thought Backflow
• Sensory Boost
• Soul Download
• Neural Slipstream
• Consciousness Spark
• Hallucination League
• Night Automatons
• Psychic Escape
• Consciousness Switchback
• Mind Arcade