Splatter 1 - Daisy and the Green Queen of Bling (choice dreamer colet)

(for the parent story of this one, see Mix 7)

It was a dark and stormy night.

Remnants 19 - epic music is epic

I was literally grinning beyond voluntary control as I was listened to this song for the first time (which, for the record, was around 11:19 on January 31, 2011)

in the land of twilight, under the moon
written and composed by Kajiura Yuki
vocals by FictionJunction members Yuriko Kaida, Kaori, Keiko, and Wakana

Seriously, after every time I listen to this song, it stays in my head for at least a few hours. Or maybe it just seems that way because I like it so much that I listen to it more than once in a few hours. And while I'm listening to it I suddenly feel like I have super powers. But my mind is made clear enough to know that I actually don't (if it didn't clear my mind, I'd have been in limbo the first time I listened to it, by rule of 11:00 fail). So it's not like a drug or an alternate dimension or anything, unlike Life Balance (again, more on that later). It's just epic. And I just started 5 sentences with conjunctions, probably because I'm too spellbound by this song to even care.

Remnants 18 - Late-night Limbo: Part 5 (Invasion of Limbo)

I've been suspecting this rare, specialized version of limbo for quite some time now, and I finally encountered it again, confirming its existence.

Remnants 8 - Late-night Limbo: Part 4 (Living Dream)

Remnants 6 - Late-night Limbo: Part 3 (Life Balance)

Life Balance by Nagisa Cosmetic. Listen to it here AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Life Balance. IT'S DANGEROUS. When I mentioned seeing how high you and a friend can get yourselves in Late-night Limbo: Part 1 and self-induced limbo in Part 2, I was talking about Life Balance.

Life Balance is a special song (to say the least) that brings about a special type of limbo. Wesley said that this song keeps him up at night. Unlike all other forms of limbo that I've discussed, this kind actually allows retention of consciousness and maybe even promotes body activity. This, however, says nothing about the exact level of mental processing that goes on while the mind is suspended in Life Balance. I'll tell you this upfront - it's low. Please don't expect much from this post, because I'm writing it while listening to Life Balance on repeat.

Remnants 4 - Late-night Limbo: Part 1 (11 o'clock Fail)

I've always been pretty good at doing the limbo, not just because I'm short. I have good enough knee and back strength to bend into a bridge from standing. I think at some point in middle school we for some reason were doing a limbo competition thing and I won.

But late-night limbo is something else entirely. It's still focused on the concept of "how low can you go," but more in a mental sense, rather than physical. See, late-night limbo is all about having a competition with yourself to see just how low-level your mental processes become before you just lose and fall asleep from exhaustion. It's generally a single-player thing, but sometimes you can bring a friend along and see who loses first, or see how high you can get yourselves before falling back down to normal thought patterns.

Late-night limbo is not just an activity, but also a state of being and possibly an alternate dimension. Within the coming weeks I will seek to chronicle my trips into late-night limbo and its various forms.