The Book of Highs: 255 Writing Experiments

[failure_artist]

I got this book out from the library "The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs" by Edward Rosenfeld. I'm not sure it's useful to figure out how to get high (drugs may be safer and easier in many cases) but I thought it could be a good writing meme. Write a character experiencing the following mental state. Here's the list:

1. Concentration
2. Self-Awareness
3. Philosophical awareness
4. Sensory awareness
5. Biological awareness
6. Visceral awareness
7. Rhythmic and cyclical awareness
8. Planetary awareness
9. Short-lived phenomena
10. Semantic awareness
11. Extraspecies communication
12. Cultural awareness
13. Awareness of others
14. Meditation
15. Prolonged observation
16. Spinning
17. Fervent prayer
18. Long time at sea, desert, or arctic
19. Self-hypnosis
20. Alterations of breathing
21. Trance
22. Myth, tales, & koan
23. Rituals
24. Chanting and mantras
25. Mudra
26. Problem solving
27. Extra-sensory perception
28. Culturally-based visual illusions
29. Auditory illusions
30. Afterimages
31. Repetition
32. Psychological exercises
33. Mathematics
34. Continuous singing
35. Manuel phosphene stimulation
36. Zen power yell
37. Poetry
38. Voluntary silence
39. Loving
40. Suffering
41. Pain
42. Forbidden activities
43. Rage
44. Paranoia
45. Panic
46. Psychosis
47. Amnesia
48. Exhaustion
49. Delirium of high fevers
50. Epileptic seizures
51. Migraines
52. Narcotic withdrawal
53. Demonic possession
54. Brainwashing
55. Self-flagellation
56. Fire walking
57. Fasting
58. Sleep deprivation
59. Involuntary isolation
60. Near-death & out-of-body experiences
61. Fantasy and daydreaming
62. Remember and reverie
63. Lullabies
64. Sleep
65. Dreaming
66. Dream incubation
67. Hypnagogic phenomena
68. Lucid dreaming
69. Dreams applied to waking life
70. Hypnopompic phenomena
71. Sunbathing
72. Floating
73. Sex
74. Prolonged sexual intercourse
75. Orgasm
76. Nudity
77. Prolonged masturbation
78. Orgiastic or corybantic dancing
79. Zen morning laugh
80. Impressions are food
81. Sensory reminscences
82. Deja vu
83. Synesthesia
84. Seeking
85. Forgetting
86. Art experience
87. Creativity
88. Profound esthetic experience
89. Flow
90. Peak experience
91. Movement
92. Postures
93. Tensing
94. Jumping up and down
95. Play
96. Running
97. Gymnastics
98. Golf
99. Mountaineering and rock climbing
100. Mushroom hunting
101. Survival tests
102. Futures
103. Acceleration and future shock
104. Voluntary social withdrawal
105. Communes
106. Everyday experience
107. Psychoanalysis
108. Analytical psychology
109. Character analysis
110. Psychodrama and drama therapy
111. Logothreapy
112. Existential therapy
113. Rational therapy
114. General semantics
115. Final intergration
116. Thanatological awareness
117. Gestalt therapy
118. Maslovian psychology
119. Transpersonal psychology
120. Sensory training
121. Bio-energetic analysis
122. Grounding and energy
123. Psychomotor therapy
124. Psychosynthesis
125. Client-centered therapy
126. Behavior therapy
127. Cognitive behavioral therapy
128. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
129. Encounter
130. Marathon
131. Potentials
132. Art therapy
133. Family therapy
134. A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT)
135. Dance therapy
136. Imago relationship therapy
137. Theater games
138. Primal therapy
139. Rolfing
140. Alexander technique
141. Autogenic training
142. Flagellation
143. Hypnosis
144. Massage
145. Kinesics
146. Laban movement
147. Bates method
148. Compressed time
149. Yoga
150. Transcendental Meditation
151. Agni yoga
152. Tibetan Buddhism
153. Tantric sex
154. Body chanting
155. Taoism
156. Confucianism
157. Buddhism
158. Tea ceremony
159. Haiku
160. Kendo and kyudo
161. T'ai chi ch'uan
162. Martial arts
163. Calligraphy and Sumie
164. Flower arrangement
165. Sufism
166. Subud
167. Jewish mysticism
168. Astrology
169. Magick
170. Alchemy
171. Anthroposophy
172. Arica
173. Religious pilgrimage
174. Revival meetings
175. Religious conversion
176. Seances
177. Faith healing
178. Charismatic speakers
179. Crowds
180. Flash mobs
181. I Ching
182. Tarot
183. The ten ox herding pictures
184. Finnegans Wake
185. Incense
186. Sensory orgy
187. Intensive instrument playing
188. Sound meditation
189. Metronome watching
190. Stained glass
191. Hot & cold baths
192. Environmental control
193. Sensory deprivation
194. Witches' cradle and ASCID
195. Body confinement
196. Hermann's grid
197. Peripheral drift
198. Autostereograms
199. Ames perceptual demonstrations
200. Mandalas
201. Gymnastic equipment
202. Scuba & skin diving
203. Bells
204. Masks
205. Rock throwing
206. Automobile destruction
207. Kayak disease
208. Engine rough
209. Skydriving
210. Breakoff
211. Gliding
212. Land diving
213. Skiing and snowboarding
214. Space travel
215. Trepanning
216. Sensory overload
217. Electronic dance music
218. Natural sound amplification
219. Prolonged radar-screen observation
220. Movies
221. Stroboscopes
222. Continuous light and sound
223. Dream machine
224. Riley room
225. Binaural beats
226. Missing frequencies
227. Infinity room
228. Magnets
229. Transcranial magnetic stimulation
230. Negative ionization
231. Psychedelic bathtub
232. Moire patterns
233. Seeing your eye
234. Electrical stimulation of the mastoid
235. Electric clothing
236. Ganzfeld effect
237. Electrosleep
238. Sound and motion sensors
239. Electronically generated visual illusions
240. OKPLD (Optikinetic Perceptual Learning Device for Sensory Stimulation and Learning)
241. Repetition taps
242. Brain-wave biofeedback
243. Electrodermal activity
244. Muscle biofeedback
245. Heartbeat and respiration biofeedback
246. Virtual reality
247. Augmented reality
248. Mutual wave machine
249. Holophonic sound
250. Simulated body illusion
251. Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)
252. Video games
253. Brain music
254. Electrical stimulation of the brain
255. Living