Hyper-Spatial Being: The sentient inhabitants of Hyperspace which vary immensely in traits including: form, knowledge, honesty, intelligence, helpfulness, mischievousness, and regard for the tourist.

What does everyone else think of this?

I think the term "elfs" should say in the Wiki because it's currently so commonly used. We can just put a see Hyper-Spatial Being note under elfs.

Hyperreality: An aspect of Hyperspace in which normal reality feels imaginary or dreamlike. See Hyperreal.

I think that this name is way too scientific. I highly doubt many people will choose the term "Hyper-Spatial Being" over "Entity" in their reports. Sometimes it's best to keep things as simple as they are.




I think this one is fine.

Could call them HSB's for short !

Hyper-spacial Being is just shorthand for "being from Hyperspace." It's not scientific. (Sorry if you already realized that, but you did say English wasn't your first language and I just want to make sure we were on the same page)

But if you don't like it we can come up with something better. I'm not dead set on anything.

i just wanted to say that this is a fantastic idea. and as i have expressed to vegantoker previously, if the Synchronized Hyperspace Event can work the way we all are hoping it will, the possibility of creating and confirming proper descriptions will be astronomical. and endless for that matter! i can't wait to see the finished project.

Thanks for the kind words! If this project is even close to successful the project will probably never be complete. Even if we end up with a dictionary worth of words for hyperspace the usage of the words in the lexicon will lead to new words to add and define being created, and also to the minor and major redefining of some of the words. A living language basically.

You may not have been aware of this (welcome by the way!) but we do have a thread for comments and discussion about the Hyperspace Lexicon here. To make this tread easier to read later we should post comments like this, there. Thanks!

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I would like to see a larger consensus on the words and definitions posted to the Lexicon's wiki page before we add them. Right now it's not a big deal to go back and change things but once this gets going, coming to consensus on the terms after they are already added might become a bit confusing and slow our overall progress. Without at lest some form of agreement among the larger group this will all be a pointless exercise because it's possible not enough people will use the terms only a few people decide on, when most others may not agree on them.

We need suggestions on the easiest way to allow contributers to this project to approve or disapprove terms.

My suggestion: Do to the format of a forum, the least confusing way to gain consensus on terms IMO would be to give the Hyperspace Lexicon work thread a sub-forum to allow for each term to get it's own thread with a poll built in. First terms and definitions will be proposed here. After at least a few people like a term it will be given it's own thread on the sub-forum. Then after a agreed upon period of time for voting and debate we will take the final agreed upon term and post it to the wiki.

Obviously there could be many reasons why The Traveler may be unwilling or unable to do this, which is why we need more ideas. I just think if it's possible, this would be the easiest way.


Your thoughts

that actually sounds like a really good idea

Thank you! I spend all day thinking about this... it's kinda like my baby . Weird.

thats awesome dude...i think its going to be a huge help for putting together the enigmaticus..

the enigmaticus will 'decode' experience reports and TRY to make a visual/artistic representation of it..using keywords from the lexicon

So in the process of trying to find some audio editing software online I picked up a nice little virus. I can't access the internet anymore from my normal username on my computer, but I can get to it from safe mode.

If anyone has experience with thing like this PM me. I'll check back every once in a wile but I'm going to be out of commision till this gets fixed .

Thanks for making the sub-thread Traveler!

doh!

In another thread, remapped described hyperspace estheatic's as 'superpixilated'. I don't know if that would be the most apropriate term but i often feel that in hyperspace i can see sharper then my eyes allow. It's like i can see on a more detailed scale then the size of my eye-pixels,wich are the optical receptor's on the retina. I believe others have this too,since i have heard people describing hyperspace as 'crispy',wich also pretty much seems to cover this aspect of it.

I don't know if anyone would have any sugestions for proper terms for this phenomenon. There are the words 'superpixilated' and 'crispy' but i guess that hyperspace having 'high-definition quality', or being 'sharper' or 'finer' or more 'fine-scaled' would do as well.

'crispy' or 'HD'(derived from 'high-definition' would be my favorites.

i like superpixilated..because that is fairly precise...but maybe another word can be found..

i usually describe it as hyperreal...because its more real than real! i dont know

In another post on the lexicon-subforum the 'interzone' is mentioned. i would think it's an apropriate term for the space in between specific hyperspace destinations.

There is a word/phrase I often come up with when inside hyperspace but it does not seem to translate well into ordinary language.
Roughly, in my head in hyperspace it is something like 'multimilliontrillionverse' .. but it has elements of motherly love. Something like the great mother that is also the creator of realities. I am not sure if this is something to do with the jungle spice and the mimosa specific alkaloids, so perhaps it is the spirit of jurema, I dont know as I have yet to try pure dmt. But it is something recurring in my journeys, more often in the deeper sub-breakthrough experiences.

Well .. I dont have a good concise word for it atm... but maybe someone else does?!

I don't have any words to add to the lexicon, but I think the whole things is a nice idea.

As far as the "naming" of the words, a few possible ways occurred to me. It seems like many words come by way of their meaning and combination in other languages. For example, "millipede" means 'thousand' and 'foot' in Latin and Indo-European, respectively (just looked it up ). Or "geometry" was 'measurement of land' in Greek. Also, it seems like some words are slight alterations of others, like maybe "stink" and "stank." "Jimjam" might be like this; the descriptive 'jam' with the rhyming and a little sily 'jim.' Plus there's always onomonopias, which actually sound like the phenomenon they describe, like "clap" probably. Metaphors are another obvious source.

I also find the idea (alluded to in a few previous posts), that having a word for something effects how we experience it, to be entertaining. I've read some who would go so far as to say that the word IS the idea, the feeling, the experience, and without it there is almost nothing. Personally I'd take a more moderate position, if forced, in that I'm certain words effect our perceptions, but I hope language isn't a prerequisite for consciousness and thought. Along this line, I'd originally wanted to produce my first trip report before reading other people's so I could transcribe it fresh and uninfluenced.

The whole idea of "newspeak" in Orwell's 1984 is about this. The government actually works to eliminate words for expressing discontent and freedom and personal creativity from the language. The idea is that without those words, the people are incapable of such thoughts. They would be zombies serving at the pleasure of the elite. Just a chance to tie into one of the best components of one of my favorite books, so I couldn't resist. :idea:

Maybe I'll have some actual terms to suggest eventually.

I think acolon_5 should write a new entry about "Hypersex". What do you think ?

Another thread on here made me think of a possible addition to the lexicon:

That intense, almost palpable, feeling of epiphany, of the sudden rush of new realization or understanding, by which something that was previously murky and indefinite instantly becomes so clear and simple that it's hard to believe it was ever any other way. Additionally, the seemingly rock-solid epiphany can somehow completely dissolve away as you return from hyperspace, leaving very little memory of what exactly it was about, and perhaps even causing you to question its validity all together. (Maybe this second part could be a separate word, or an alteration of the original??)

I'd still have to think of THE WORD for it, though (if someone else didn't come up with one). But more importantly, I'm not sure whether this is a common or significant enough experience to warrant an entry in the lexicon. But in the original thread I referred to above it seemed like I'm not the only one familiar with it.

Peace

Hey, you might not want to go with Hyperreality and Hyperreal, because they're already taken, in a context quite relevant to Hyperspace.

Baudrillard describes Hyperreality as the inability to distinguish between reality and illusion in modern culture, and gives examples of Hyperrealities as theme parks, casinos, porn; anywhere sensual reality is manufactured to an idea, or as a copy. Check out the wikipedia entry...

Course, you could still use it, whatever, just might get a bit confusing

Hyperreality theory is interesting alongside Hyperspace because it posits that a great deal of what we experience as reality from day to day is actually simulated, adverts are simulated copy-realities, news, schools, supermarkets; so, compared to some simulated hyperrealities, Hyperspace could be considered MORE real, in that it fully engages the subject in a vital, creative and exhilarating way, leading them through a rich and unique experience of being.

brain tired.

Does hyperspace-christmasland ring any bells here? All flickering lights around you, like a jungle full of flickering christmas trees. crystals everywhere and shiny objects.

Came up with a new one accidentally in another thread:

semi-space:
- the low dose drifting headspace between normality and hyper-space