Am I missing out on something? (dance)

[kantor1003]

I have never been into dance/trance, but I'm always trying to get into new types of music. This time though, it isn't just the music, it is the whole thing as I don't think dance music can be experienced just through the sheer act of listening. So, I was wondering, have any of you ever been to something like this ? and if so, what was it like?
I'm not sure what I think of it tbh, but it seems appealing on some levels. I presume consuming mdma and attending an event such as this could potentially result in a strong, euphoric experience? Just leaving your normal life at the doorstep and enter another world of dancing, bodily contact and loud, trance like (not as in the music genre) music. I'm pretty sure I'm idealizing though, so I want to get some input from people that have attended such events.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Events like that do seem appealing in some way. Although I'm probably too much of a control freak to completely let go and ride on the wave of an MDMA high in a giant sea of people.

On a side note:

Spoiler

That DJ looks incredibly ridiculous and obnoxious

 

[kantor1003]

On a side note: That DJ looks incredibly ridiculous and obnoxious

Agreed, but give him a break - he is japanese

Yeah, I think I would have an hard time to "let go" as well, but I really want to be able to do it once. I guess it would be easier to achieve if one went without people that know your ordinary "in control" self.

 

[aaaw]

So, I was wondering, have any of you ever been to something like this

Yes. It can be fun, the music and the drugs work synergistically to create a rather intense experience. But at the end of the day it is a totally superficial environment full of people whose temporary, drug-induced love for one another is only surpased by the feeling that they are the coolest person currently residing on planet earth.


Ultimately the whole thing is a delusion and you end up with a feeling of hollowness and pointlessness that can last for days afterwards. It is entirely devoid of authenticity.

The experience is described quite well in this song by Pulp (although this was in the days when they were held in fields, with the location being withheld until the last moment):

YouTube - Pulp - Sorted out for E's and Whizz

Lyrics.

Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?
Or just 20,000 people standing in a field.
And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is.
But that's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.
And tell me when the spaceship lands cos all this has just got to mean something.

In the middle of the night,
it feels alright,
but then tommorow morning.
Oh then you come down.

Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was going down.
Got the tickets from some fucked up bloke in Camden Town.
Oh and no-one seems to know exactly where it is.
But that's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.
At 4 o'clock the normal world seems very, very, very far away.
Alright.

In the middle of the night,
it feels alright,
but then tommorow morning.
Oh then you come down.

Just keep on moving...
Everybody asks your name,
they say we're all the same and it's "nice one,"
"geezer"
but that's as far as the conversation went.
I lost my friends, I dance alone,
it's six o'clock, I wanna go home.
But it's "no way," "not today,"
makes you wonder what it meant.
And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows,
and you want to phone your mother and say,
"Mother, I can never come home again,
cos I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere,
somewhere in a field in Hampshire."
Alright.

In the middle of the night,
it feels alright,
but then tommorow morning.
Oh then you come down.

What if you never come down?

 

[Meer]

1997 called...they were looking for their supersaws and 909s.

I've never been to anything like this, but I think it would be full of white suburban kids who think they're trendy...which would be bad...

A jungle/dnb night would be a lot more fun.

 

[Hadoblado]

listening to this sort of music makes me anxious, it's all build up and no release. I would be worried about having some sort of bad trip or something.

Dubstep.

Now there's something that I could MDMA to

 

[kantor1003]

But at the end of the day it is a totally superficial environment full of people whose temporary, drug-induced love for one another is only surpased by the feeling that they are the coolest person currently residing on planet earth.

Yeah, thats what I was afraid of.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuwCX8aXfoI