howdy Constant Bloggers! (I hope I haven't accidentally plagiarized this term; I came up with it free from external exposure, whether you want to believe or no. I just have to assume someone else came up with it first; hard to be original
nowadays...)
So to my point-I just started reading Dr. Sleep (so stoked) and I came across Dan Torrence's, or rather Dick H.'s lockbox mental 'trick'? It instantly reminded me of Hannibal Lectors 'mental mansion' ( although I'm not sure that was how he described it. And yes, it was T. Harris who wrote it, again whether or not it was he who originally came up with the concept).
If you are not familiar with the story, here's my succinct (and necessarily inarticulate) summation: a cannibalizing serial killer uses this mental mansion to store and allow access to all sorts of art (ooh, just now recalled it was a 'memory palace' I believe! Sorry, I digress), specific memories of people, smells, locations etc. while locked away in a hellish dungeon of a prison/criminal asylum. This 'memory palace' allows him to pass the time during his life sentence (w/o parol) w/o losing his marbles (ironic, as you would naturally already be in debt of said marbles to be Like Hannibal). He 'eacapes' to this palace in his own mind...
My question is, in real life, are these mental capacities actually concrete? Or is it just fiction? Can anyone create these subconscious / pseudo-conscious entities? And if so, do any of you know how to do it or how it works?
I appreciate any input, even if it's simply that someone took the effort to read this rubbish and tells me to '**** off' and stop clogging up the site with utter stupidity. I'm still not familiar with all the rules or etiquette on blogs. ie my use of profanity, apologies...
Thanks dudes!
-Garrett
nowadays...)
So to my point-I just started reading Dr. Sleep (so stoked) and I came across Dan Torrence's, or rather Dick H.'s lockbox mental 'trick'? It instantly reminded me of Hannibal Lectors 'mental mansion' ( although I'm not sure that was how he described it. And yes, it was T. Harris who wrote it, again whether or not it was he who originally came up with the concept).
If you are not familiar with the story, here's my succinct (and necessarily inarticulate) summation: a cannibalizing serial killer uses this mental mansion to store and allow access to all sorts of art (ooh, just now recalled it was a 'memory palace' I believe! Sorry, I digress), specific memories of people, smells, locations etc. while locked away in a hellish dungeon of a prison/criminal asylum. This 'memory palace' allows him to pass the time during his life sentence (w/o parol) w/o losing his marbles (ironic, as you would naturally already be in debt of said marbles to be Like Hannibal). He 'eacapes' to this palace in his own mind...
My question is, in real life, are these mental capacities actually concrete? Or is it just fiction? Can anyone create these subconscious / pseudo-conscious entities? And if so, do any of you know how to do it or how it works?
I appreciate any input, even if it's simply that someone took the effort to read this rubbish and tells me to '**** off' and stop clogging up the site with utter stupidity. I'm still not familiar with all the rules or etiquette on blogs. ie my use of profanity, apologies...
Thanks dudes!
-Garrett