Paracosm Immersion

[droqen]

Regarding Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill)'s
"Paracosm Immersion"

[droqen]

I read this a long time ago and it's stuck with me since - a simple method for immersing yourself in your own paracosm (or "mental wonderland").

The way it's written feels a little bit like a poetry guide... The instructions themselves are slightly poetic, but plain text notes accompany.

I thought I'd lost the link but I luckily had the URL living in a text file in my little file cloud, and I found it using Sublime Text's most sublime capacity to let me search all the text files in a large folder for a particular term. (In this case, I searched for paracosm and found the note from 2020. Hooray!)

[droqen]

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it

[droqen]

Short form reference card/mnemonic:

As a visitor, to help ground myself in a location, notice
(See, hear, feel, smell, taste)-ing (5,4,3,2,1) things.
And any additional sensory reactions

As a visitor, to get more detail about some random thing, notice its

• Group or category.
• Common uses.
• Inherent actions.
• Properties.
• Most common location.

And any additional associations

[droqen]

54321, immerse myself in a place-
   See, hear, feel, smell, taste

Note a thing's most common-
   Group, uses, actions, properties, location