NATURE WALK (Sleep Aid, Meditation, ASMR)
Added 2021-12-07 21:01:00 +0000 UTCThis was a real labour of love - the most intense piece of ASMR description I've ever written... and it got published in NZ literary journal Takahē here!)
I really hope it transports and relaxes you!
Smooches,
Matthew
💜🧔🏻💐
Comments
Magnificent! You bring beautiful light into a dark world, thank you🤗
Linda
2022-05-02 01:26:27 +0000 UTCBeautiful, thank you ☺️
Toni
2022-01-03 16:42:44 +0000 UTCI don’t get muscle spasms but it’s like I almost get ticklish? 😯 Like light shivers in my lower back every time his voice goes back and forth from one ear to the other (I had my AirPods in while listening) I wonder if that might play a part? 🤔 I usually set my AirPods to the noise cancellation so I’m fully absorbed while listening. So I’m thinking that might contribute?
Orphic
2021-12-19 08:22:38 +0000 UTCDid anyone else get muscle spasms listening to this? For some reason when the audio was only on one side I would feel an involuntary jump in that side of my lower back. 🤔
Mary
2021-12-12 03:39:27 +0000 UTCMe neither, yay - glad you like. Hahahahahahaha… biggest laugh of the night… OMGosh I can’t… was thinking the same thing at one point. We are too corrupt! 🌈🍑😂 xx Speaking of corrupt… Lawdy Lawdy Lawdy.. I’m gonna enjoy listening to that new audio later. FS Matt… UGH… imagining all the delicious things you’re gonna be telling me to do.. like when you were HOST DADDY 3 (there’s my fave # again - no wonder it was a scorcher 😏🥵).
FFSWhatudoin2me (K)
2021-12-10 23:38:40 +0000 UTCTotally, Katie! I have a favourite line about relativity from a poem called 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. "IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles.” I just love the reminder that our field of vision is limited, or the fact we can’t see something might only point out a limitation to our understanding. But you're right - even being born here in the South, Christmas is a little weird being celebrated in summer for me. I celebrate Winter Solstice / Matariki in winter to compensate! 💜xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 21:31:29 +0000 UTCHey - thank-you so much for taking the time to comment or read the discussions on this post. Although I can’t reply to new comments here now, I’ll still be returning to read and 💜 them from time-to-time, so even if you feel a bit late to the party please say hi! Much love, 🧔🏻💐Matthew
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 21:24:27 +0000 UTCOh, I don't know 'Living in a Ghost Town' - just listening now. Like it! (I love the others too - especially 'She's Like A Rainbow') ... She cums in colours everywhere 🌈🍑 😂xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 21:24:20 +0000 UTCHeeey M… Hahahaha, thought that would “sweet you” as the Caribbean saying goes. 😁 Gern geshehen… de nada!! 💛 This is my first break of the day, so thanks to Vanessa for filling you in. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it. Glad I can bring more gems into your life. 😘🤗 It’s part of a benefit we have access to at work… that helps us look after our mental health. So many people use it. Through work and personally. Regé Jean Page did a piece on the platform some months ago. Harry Styles a while back too. To name two. 🙂 Google brings up relevant links straight away. And their website isn’t much further down first page. 😉 I thought they’d have paid to have search engines bring them up high in results. 👍🏾👍🏾 Vanessa is right tho’… no naughty stuff on there. 😀😉 So this one is perfect. The last line is SFW enough I think but you could edit it if it came to that. ✨✨ I really think you should get in touch with Calm and ask them about how you can work with them… even if to just submit this one. ✨✨ The hug I want to give you @ “I’ll try”.. you’re too adorable. 😀🤗💛 Yeah, it really moved me… thank you. 🤗💛 Me too, haven’t heard that one in a while. Yay to bender! Was thinking I’d have one myself. OMG YES @ Beast of Burden - oh how that takes me back to a certain movie (Fifty). Was first time I’d really listened to it - going through the soundtrack. 🙂 *fluttery laugh* … I can hear you singing the “Aaaaangie…” just listening to it now. Intro reminds me of ‘Hotel California’. 🙂 My smile @ the whispering… 🙃 #BonnieandClydevibes💞 Always loved these: ‘Miss You’, ‘Start Me Up’, ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘She’s Like A Rainbow’ 🙃🙌🏾 UPDATE during my bender 😀: ‘Paint It Black’ and ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ make me smile @ the pictures they paint @ storytelling. And the production. 😍 Loving ‘Living In A Ghost Town’ … making me think of Halloween audio. 😀 💛😘X X
FFSWhatudoin2me (K)
2021-12-10 15:44:21 +0000 UTCWow! Seriously, 💜Ann?! It's the master audio? That's pretty damned cool to hear! I'd say 'I'll make more then, but honestly, that took a lot outta me!! It's back to me, a mic and some sexy times for a while! (Oh, maybe a cam too 😄) But I'm so stoked to hear how it's now your fav!!😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 10:55:42 +0000 UTCThanks sooo much, 💜Titania! See I do read the suggestions in the suggestions box! 🤣 But seriously, it sucks to hear you had one of those weeks, but I'm glad I was on the upside of it...🥰I didn't have any fixed setting in mind for this, but weirdly, I've put quite a bit of thought into nature and the poetic lenses we look at it through over the last few weeks - wave metaphors, petals and flowers and butterflies, sun/moon, and in other audios too. Your quote about the body and water is beautiful. It reminds me of the weird (maybe factoid) that we all breathe the same air molecules - even to those dead in history. Everything is so interconnected, it's hard to comprehend. People too. I had a gene test for my Y-DNA haplogroup done a while back for interest's sake and when I joined an R1b social group belonging to my nearest genetic relatives I was really really surprised and delighted to see how meaningless 'race' really is. Our closest genetic relatives come from all over the world, have all tones of skin and 'ethnic' backgrounds. (In case anyone hasn't done this experiment I've just logged in to post a pic of others in my group here: https://ibb.co/MR9dVz0 - and this is a very typically 'Western European' group). Race is really quite meaningless. We're really all so connected. Anyway - thanks for letting me blather a bit more! 🤣I'm glad you liked the audio so much, and thanks for the love!! xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 10:50:36 +0000 UTCI only got through like half the comments so I will have to come back later because I should at least go back to sleep for an hour before my alarm goes off! Matthew- when I listened Tuesday the butterfly hit me hard. We all have times in life where we see the fragility of it. How anything can happen and change everything in an instant. “As if it’s beauty protects it from all harm” the innocence and naivety (spelling?) we enter the world with…if only it were that simple, but what freedom to live in such a way. I think about relativity a lot. How things impact us based on how close we are in proximity or in how we relate to them. Like how for a butterfly “living a day is like living forever… I think about how day and night and seasons just move. I was think for you Southern Hemispherers it must be strange to celebrate Christmas in summer, but if that’s all you’ve ever known, why would it be? Ugh I really could go on and on. I somehow end up speaking a lot in metaphor a lot. The sleeping lake, the ripples and reflections as dream!? Could everything really hold its own level of consciousness? Does a raindrop know it has joined a lake?! Anyway, just thoughts I have to distract myself from reality. Again, thanks for the feelings. I need them. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Katie
2021-12-10 10:42:00 +0000 UTCThis is my most favorite of ALL. 🥰
Ann
2021-12-10 09:39:46 +0000 UTCMatthew, this is such a lovely work. As I said earlier, I cried through most of it the first time through. The initial listen to an audio usually packs an extra emotion punch, and this was certainly no exception. I was so touched you included that phrase I requested, and really, the whole thing just resonated with me on a deep level. I've cried several times this week - rough week - but this was a good cry. 🥰 How often do we get to cry over beauty? Thank you so much for this, and for all you do. You speak as one who has put thought into their relationship with nature. Ecological truths are woven into the poetry: energy and water moves through the system and is expressed as ephemera and permanent phenomena, quick cycles and long sequestration. Your writing is cinematic in style, I think. The visuals unfold like in a film. Broad setting and motion, then slow time down to zoom in and savor a detail, a moment. Then cycle through again. (The Brothers is like that too.) It really works well with my visual brain. Then the word play builds on extra layers of meaning. So good. I saw this quote on social media and I think it fits the themes here. "The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance." -CryptoNaturalist Images that tickled me (new, imaginative, "of course!"): melted ice cream willow, ripples pulling the next ripple, the tree of stars. Did you have any particular setting(s) in mind when you wrote this?
Titania
2021-12-10 06:51:25 +0000 UTCSorted!!! 💜
Matthew Tower
2021-12-10 05:59:33 +0000 UTCThe deep bass at the start… those vocal textures… the way they ooze into my psyche, as sound drifts from ear to ear. 💜 The intonations… the whispers… the images, so vivid I want to draw them all and create a huge immersive tapestry of delights interlocking around each other, like our limbs entwining with and embracing the earth… You’re the like the Michael McIntyre of ASMR… I want to just sit like a 🦋 floating above your head, and watch your incredible powers of OBSERVATION play out, as if from a projector, against the panorama around us. The play by play DETAIL… the METAPHORS… 💜 “Bluebells” took me to a song from school days… 🙃 “The Periwrinkle windmills”… I had to look it up… found a purple paper one… 🙂 The way the soft hairs on my arm danced to attention when we got to that point… “The drift of the clouds…” 🙃 On Tuesday we were looking out the window at work and thought - wow, how fast are the clouds moving… shows how windy it is! 🙂 You can imagine my smile when I pictured a 🦋 flittering towards us… “A velvet wish” 💜 “Sky petal” 💜… Made me think of butterfly kisses… they’re so delightful 1:18-1:20 - your breathing here… 💜 The power in the pause… “Nowhere in particular… As if its beauty protects it from all harm…” 💜🦋 Freedom… love of exploration… #spiritanimalvibes😍 *mouth jut* “… as if living for a day is living forever” 💜 As we cut a path to the river, my mind takes me to these visuals being played out in a movie scene… an Indie creation… your voice the captivating VO. Takes me back to the mood of LITTLE LIGHTS IN THE DARK I’d said the same thing then… 🙃 “Raindrops… music loud enough to drown out any sound…” 💜 “Its weight strong enough to tear right through the landscape…” 🙃 I thought - gosh we’re going get soaked… 😀 “… toss leaves… like gold and copper coins into a wishing well…” 💜 “… past the fallen log jammed between the rocks…” 🙂 It’s like you were out one day and captured moments on a walk… And then sat and thought about how to express all the elements of nature around you to in the simplest yet most loving and majestic ways. 👌🏾💜💛 “… past the seedling shooting up out of the soft wood…” “… past the tiny solitary flower growing through a gap in the rock so boldly…” My smile as I recall how many times I’ve seen these… 🙃 Just reminds me why interacting with nature is so good for us. “… drawing life out of death…” 💜 Makes me think of how I’ve grown up thinking about these at times… when someone we know died, we often keep an ear out for news of a little one being born. And if it happens to occur simultaneously or one soon after the other… we see it as a blessing… one taken away, and one given as a blessing. 🙃🙏🏾 So true… the seasons… the focal points of day… don’t really come and go… they just move… The sun just reached over the sea and swapped places with his love, the moon… and they’ll swap over again in about 3 hours… for us both… 🙃 “… snow is never all melted…” My mind then flitters back to gushing waters flowing down the river, to the sea back in my home away from home in the Caribbean… bountiful gifts from the hills and distant waterfall on a day of pregnant skies… 🏞 And our present turns into the past, our experience into memory… 💜🙃 So true… soon after each moment of “Now” passes… it is committed to that place in our consciousness… within a beloved locket or as something else… 💜 how you took my mind to the next stanza… Midday… “… we smell it coming…” My mind flitters back to looking up at rolling hills with the grey clouds looming, their fluffy bodies like the Michelin Man… 🙂 We wait… the rain’s coming… A smile yawns across my face as I dream of smelling the earth after the rain passes… LOOOVE that smell… 👃😍🌧🌤 🙃 “… and then, like a quick intake of breath it comes and folds us in its cool shroud… begins pleasantly needling us…” 🙃 “… its soft continuous humming lies like a pad of cotton wool over our ears…” 🙃 “… like pearls scattered falling on the arms of the trees…” “…. it’s no more than a tickling nest… clicks pops and drops falling from the leaves…” LOVE this sound 🙃 “… and slowly the forest resumes murmuring its song…” 🙃 “… the straight spines of spruce… past a willow melting like an ice cream” 💜 My mind recalls the phrase - The Wind In The Willows… a movie, no? Of course, I go looking for a song… and find three albums that intrigue me…! “All afternoon we walk under the strength and patience of trees…” 💜 The way they help ground us… the older they are the wiser… and how protect our earth… we need them now more than ever to be part of the cycle to replenish Mother… My mind pictures roots like tendons anchored beneath houses in some cases… not a good thing for one’s haven… a problem to solve before another foundation is rocked… agree, they do indeed grow imperceptibly… 🙃 Don’t you just love that warm comforting sound when you stand under the blanket of trees and hear the sound of the rain falling on their leaves? Yes to that cotton wool metaphor 😍 And you can relax, safe in the knowledge that most of you will stay dry… So yummy… esp on a warm day… “… and endure, knowing resistance creates strength…” 💜 Oh, how we can apply this to life in quite a few ways… standing up for what is right… resilience… playful shenanigans with a loved one… So true… strength and courage are also found in the small and seemingly insignificant… *mouth jut* @ seed pod… “Inside its heart is a whole forest…” 💜 “… break up and gather loosely in the blue, like boats moored in the harbour…” 💜 “… and above those high streaks of white swirling patterned with a fingerprint of the breeze…” 💜 “… we’re there before our feet can carry us…” The way you hold this 🦋 nestled in the palm of your hand… drifting through this story… “… the water’s still, soaking in the hues of the trees…” 😍 Reminds me of a friend and I driving through a delightfully shrouded bit of road exploring part of Scotland, looking for a location used in the TV series Highlander. She’s a huge fan. 🙂 The way the rays pierced through the foliage and reflected shards of light like a prism. 😍 I might share that photo in the photography folder. “… the lake sleeps…” 🙃 Why am I thinking of Moby lying in wait…? Maybe ‘cuz my mind’s now drifted to the Highlands in Scotland. 😀 😀 haven’t skipped pebbles across water in ages… I’m looking… peering… the circles drawing me in like an hypnotic opposing whirlpool… “The lake still sleeps but it spreads it’s dreams…” 💜 “… like heatwaves from a candle flame burning in a wax of pinks and preaches… releasing the honeydew scent of the night flowers…” 😍😍 “… think of our love as a light that burns a hole into the night…” 🙃💜 Your pause after … “star in the sky…” 💜 I remember easing myself up and looking at my phone, thinking you’d finished… 🙃 “… there’s no weight of darkness… there are no shadows…” 💜✨ Hope this is especially comforting to anyone who finds it hard to fall asleep, especially in the dark… “A tree of stars emerges…” ✨✨✨✨ 💜 the continuing imagery after emerging from the forest earlier… “Their reflected light falls on the world like snow…” “Like, the softness of sleep…” 💜 how you’re setting this final stanza… “… around which everyone gathers their hopes…” 💜 So apt for these times… 11:10-11:12 - power in the pause 🙂💜 “… the moon will follow us…” 💜 Just love how how your words and phrases set my synapses firing in all sorts of ways, and I end up finding other lovely pieces of scrumptiousness and joy. Everything happens for a reason… And you should really get in touch with a leading charity linked to supporting Mind or Mental Health in NZ… or even reach out to Calm… this deserves to be published so millions can bask in its bliss and find solace. 💛😘💜
FFSWhatudoin2me (K)
2021-12-10 02:04:26 +0000 UTCMatthew! My lovense toys came! How do I connect??? The app says I need to send an invitation to a username (no longer doing emails). I took a guess and put in Matthewtower. Lol. I'm Titania_in_the_Tower. 😁
Titania
2021-12-10 01:46:05 +0000 UTCPresentation complete 😎. I did not embarrass myself and the class seemed pretty into it the whole time 🤩 Many MANYYY thank yous to everyone that gave words of support … 🫂. I’ll send in my lil note/presentation thingy a bit later lmao. I was up till 330am putting together my PowerPoint and now I need a nap—and coffee. 🤠🤠🤠
Tara Davenport
2021-12-10 00:47:28 +0000 UTCAwwwwwwwwwww… this is beautiful Matt 💛💜… felt SO GOOD to just close my eyes and BE… esp with this being a packed week… To imagine myself laying on nature’s carpet somewhere, and be transported across an entire day with you… SO many moments where I was smiling… the DETAIL 👌🏾😍💜… so blissful that at about 7 mins I felt myself suddenly snoozing… as the raindrops fall outside (so nice to be in the warm when it is)… Then my subconsciousness gently nudged me back to the present, to listen to you properly… your voice and words cuddling me like a tender lullaby... 🤗 Plagiarism checker, *grunt chuckle* 😁 *SIGH* now to go listen to it again and pluck all the gems that leaped out at me. Yeah, agree your most intense descriptive piece. You should be so proud. That was PURE BLISS. BRB 💛😘🤗💜 And yes, thanks to Lulu.. so pretty 😍
FFSWhatudoin2me (K)
2021-12-09 22:15:04 +0000 UTCIt reminded me of this concept as well: https://imgur.com/gallery/Kc1hR0c
Emily Dawn
2021-12-09 18:24:49 +0000 UTCI know I’m a bit late to the party, but I really wanted to spend some time absorbing this. Matthew- this is a really beautiful piece of writing. You should be proud. The juxtaposition of the butterfly’s “living for a day is living forever” and the trees’ growing “imperceptibly” and “flourishing and growing in ways we can’t even perceive” really struck a chord with me. The word relativity comes to mind. We’re all on the same rock, but each perceive it differently, all while the same “floating wish lantern” continues its orbit around us. And this line!😍 “Present turns into the past, our experience into memory, and the stream rubs it as smooth as a pebble.” Our experiences, both good and bad, shape our lens and alter our perception. Personally, when my anxiety is at its worst I sometimes fixate on issues- which can cause me to perceive them to be worse/larger/more insurmountable than they actually are. Sharp and painful memories usually grow smoother with the current of time, and as I’ve grown and evolved I can view those painful memories with more objectivity and self-compassion.
Emily Dawn
2021-12-09 18:21:55 +0000 UTC💜Ann - I'd never get tired of hearing from you 😌but please don't ever feel you have to say something! I'll know you're around sending a mental high-five 🙌and hug 🤗no matter what. Hope you're having a good week! xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-09 05:50:27 +0000 UTCMatthew I feel like I have nothing original to say and that I just keep repeating myself. I don’t want the same words of praise and awe at your creativity to become dull with overuse. But I also feel that if I don’t say anything that isn’t right either. Thank you for your hard work I very much appreciate it. 💜🤗
Ann
2021-12-09 03:10:41 +0000 UTCOh - he’s way bigger than I was expecting! (Also I forgot to say in the last comment that I really appreciate why the butterfly means so much to you given the metamorphosis you were going through back then! It’s a perfect symbolic creature to have!) Also when you said ‘I’m gonna show you my groundhog’ I thought something completely different. 😂😘x
Matthew Tower
2021-12-09 03:01:16 +0000 UTCNo SQUIRRELS!!!! And your birds don't FLY‼️Seriously⁉️ Well I will show you my groundhog Matt. He snuck up on me on my chaise lounge while tanning earlier this day & scared the hell outta me! I screamed. But later I captured him hiding under my car for shade. It was a really hot day. https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/d6UT0DP1j0Y5 https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/uybTXnMi7vxd https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/dzZQHK6Twszg
VANESSA
2021-12-09 02:46:06 +0000 UTCV💜 That's a lovely response thank-you!! I'm a little envious of all the wildlife you have in your back yard - I've never actually seen a squirrel or a groundhog. Birds though, yes. They're pretty special over here, and not just because Kiwis are our national animal. I've probably mentioned it before but because New Zealand pre-colonisation was so isolated it became a total bird sanctuary with zero predators, and that's why some birds, like Kiwis and Moas, forgot how to fly as they evolved... Now we have a goal to completely eradicate all pests (rats, stoats, opossums) by 2050. Anyway, the butterflies, the birds & the bees - it's so great that you're flying sober now. 🕊🦋xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-09 01:13:56 +0000 UTCTara - all I can say is that is the worst explanation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics I've ever seen. 😂But tell me if I'm close? The pulley represents vaccination, a pessimistic view would see the larger weight as representing entropic forces of human’s tendency to anarchy and disinformation (so the the refusal to vaccinate in the overall population) and the smaller weight represents the power and order of the systems the government has in place which is being outweighed? So you can't pull the population through vaccination because entropy still outweighs order? Something like that? Sounds interesting anyway! By all means share! xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-09 00:54:36 +0000 UTCArrrgh, Katja! Sorry to hear the weather changed so fast for you. 🌧😔 That is a weird and pointlessly mean thing to say to anyone - let alone someone you're breaking up with. It sounds to me like they were being defensive or insecure about something. Anyway, it's seems too obvious to even say, but just to remind you: you are all that 💜xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-09 00:38:52 +0000 UTCWowww! That last line! ...."Let's share the warmth of our bodies". I never made it to the end on my first listen but ironically that's where I began. I found the house empty(which is unusual-everybody out). So I was watching your Shadow Play & had a big beautiful orgasm. Then I lay down for my afternoon nap. At that very moment I saw the notification for this new ASMR audio & the timing was PERFECT! So was your voice & cadence! I laid on my side with a pillow in back of me and put my phone(sans headphones cuz no one was home) by my ear. It was as if you were now snuggling me after our sex sesh and lolling me to sleep with your poetry & lovely imagery! I must admit at that time I didn't make it very far into the audio before I slipped into a deep slumber. I didn't follow the story, just the way you spoke in rich deep tones, wonderful whispers that gave me shivers and how your accent formed words that sounded different from mine. Far more sexy, intelligent & refined. At the time it was like Charlie Brown's teacher on the Peanuts Gang cartoon. Wah wah wah waaa....BUTTERFLY,,,,,wah wah wah waaa...FLOWERS, etc. Except the opposite of annoying. But the idea I could hear what you were talking about cuz I couldn't concentrate. My eyes wee getting heavy. I woke up HOURS later! Missed dinner. I had a GOOD SLEEP.! Woke up refreshed & content. Now on 2nd listen I left the lights on so I wouldn't fall asleep & could absorb what you were saying. You could really just read the phonebook with that silver tongue of yours!!!! But there is beauty in what you write too!!! Nature has become really special to me . Only the last 7 years or so of my sobriety journey. I was the g!rl that wanted to stay indoors because of bugs, grass stains & allergies getting to me. I never noticed how absolutely spectacular scenery &:greenery can be. The colors of the flowers & leaves. Wind blowing through trees to make them dance! When I was on drugs I always walked with my head down looking at the floor. For many reasons. Mostly cuz I was looking for money or dropped drugs. In my insanity my mind used to tell me surely there was some there to be found. I was also ashamed. Most people were out on their way to work on a bright sunny morning. I was a vampire. Locked up in a basement somewhere up for days blocking out the light. Emerging only to re-up on supplies. I hated those "normal" people. I hated the sun &:everything under it! When I got sober I started walking with my head up. I loved feeling the warmth of the sunshine on my skin(that's why so many tanning pics &;bikinis-😅). I was not a nature or animal lover but I became one! I find I'm most drawn to birds. I believe birds are God's messengers. I've had all kinds of animals approach me in my backyard. We have a bunny that lives there(I named him Hopscotch), squirrels, red cardinals and even a groundhog!!! I talk to them.Lol! I believe the butterfly is my spirit animal. My name means butterfly in Greek. WHen doing my 3rd step I visited "The Botanical Gardens" we have here in Montreal. They had a Butterfly Exhibit. A huge greenhouse with Monarch, blue, gold, and every color of butterfly you can imagine! Ever since then I decorate my sobriety anniversary cake with a butterfly so thank you for including that bit. Made it more special for me. Anyway this is getting long. Just wanna say thank you for all you do Matthew! I really am in awe of you! I sometimes don't feel like I'm on your level or intelligent enough to hold a conversation with you that you would find interesting or stimulating but hey I try. Much love, V💜🦋😘
VANESSA
2021-12-09 00:00:09 +0000 UTCFIRSTLY---this had me unconscious within 4 minutes--job well done I suppose. SECONDLY, Matttttt...your reply--tryna make a girl cry? Look if you actually want my absolute ramble of nonsense notes...I shall provide. Also, if you wanna read an equally nonsensical 18 page essay on the whole thing (its about covid disinformation and how chaos effects chaos), lol, I have that too. In the meantime, the professor JUST emailed my group our "framing question" that our presentations need to revolve around and I feel like you could probably appreciate it :) https://ibb.co/kVn96Wb I'll try not to absolutely piss myself in front of the whole class lmao.
Tara Davenport
2021-12-08 20:49:43 +0000 UTCOh how quickly life changes... And to think I was completely fine only hours ago *sigh* So, I just got dumped over a specially cruel text basically saying how I'm "not even all that" which is fcked in itself cause what kinda thing to say is that, but also combined with everything else rn, it really feels like I'm being kicked when I'm already down. I'm so overwhelmed and don't know if I'm more angry or hurt but this audio is so peaceful and if I thought I liked it before, now I appreciate it five times more. Thank you for making this because although overwhelmed and a crying mess, I feel less lonely.
Katja
2021-12-08 20:15:16 +0000 UTCThanks 💜Honey! So nice to hear it described all cosy like that! 🥰Snugs and hugs! xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 19:53:26 +0000 UTCOh, 💜D - I hope the fever breaks soon and the rest of your isolation goes well. I'm glad I can be with you in this small way! Get well soon! 💌💐xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 19:50:40 +0000 UTCThis was so nice and sweet, like a thick, weighted blanket on a really cold night. The imagery is so peaceful, and your voice so comforting, I was sleepy five minutes in. Thank you, I needed this. Good work as always. 🥰💕
Honey D.A.
2021-12-08 16:22:07 +0000 UTCI'm fairly certain I could listen to you read the phone book contentedly, but this is just what the doctor ordered. Your words are mesmerizing, and for a brain that thinks in pictures they paint the perfect peaceful escape. When the fever lifts and I can give your words the attention they deserve you can bet I'll be reading them. Until then, thank you for being the comforting voice who lulls me back to comfort and peaceful sleep in the waiting. You're like a warm blanket to wrap up in, Matthew. My favorite 'friend' to to run off into adventure with, or snuggle into comfort and let go with completely. Thanks for making day 10 in isolation sweeter and less lonely, and for bringing the gift of sleep and rest. Grateful. Your timing as always is perfection.
D
2021-12-08 11:36:52 +0000 UTCStop that! 😢 🥲You just made my heart a bit achy and joyful at the same time, Katie. 💜 See you again soon… 😌😘
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 09:12:04 +0000 UTCNope, I was not prepared. 🥲😢😭 Made it 8 minutes in during my usual 3 am Tower time, and I shall return later today with water, tissue, pen, paper. ✌️👋 F*ck I should know by now, but still always caught off guard. Thank you for reminding me what it’s like to feel even when I have worked so hard not to. 💛💛💛💫
Katie
2021-12-08 08:49:34 +0000 UTC✨🧔🏻✨ The pleasure and gratitude is all mine, PQ! 💜Thanks for those lovely images fishing at the lake, and seeing the evening star sitting over the moon... 🌃I find it weird that not all of the constellations in the Northern hemisphere are visible in the South (and vice-versa) but Venus is one we do share... 🥰 ⭐Shine On! 🎶xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 06:23:39 +0000 UTCDawn! 💜Thanks so much! 🥰You just made me feel like the Michelangelo of dirty-talk! And thanks again for the new photos in the '📸Pro Shoots' folder - they're just gorgeous! 😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 06:08:51 +0000 UTCThis was a beautifully written piece Matthew!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 The imagery of flowers, butterflies, fields, rain, water from the stream and lake, skipping stones in the lake (that brought back nostalgic feelings of doing this with my Dad as a child when we would go fishing), the sun,moon,stars, summer/winter contrasts were so vivid! I could even smell the honeydew, honey suckle, the rain, the air...I just felt everything!!! "They simply stand still and endure, knowing resistance creates strength. Like us, they’re flourishing and growing in ways we can’t even perceive. They know that strength and courage is found in the seemingly small and insignificant. " The metaphors for the trees is astounding so much so that it hit home for me in my personal growth this past year! If people only knew the journey I've....well hell...all of us have endured we will be more grateful for our lives and each other. This was such a moving poem (that's what it felt like to me). Last night I saw the most spectacular twilight night with a crescent 🌙 moon and a single bright star 🌟 sitting atop the position of the moon in the sky. I watched for awhile breathing in the crisp, cold winter air and feeling the vibrations of their energy engulfing my body to a radiant glow. It was like a vision of wonder and a sign that the tide is turning in my favor for me and that prosperity is right around my corner. In my recollection, I felt deep in my soul that I recognized that star. It was my wishing star that I made wishes on as a child. I have missed my wishing star. But I revell in the abundant flow and energy of this audio. It's a great pleasure to know pieces of you and it's a great honour to be investing in your imagination and creativity every month! You truly are a Starseed Child Matthew - Keep Shining ⭐🧔🏻! - 🐟👑
Pisces Queen
2021-12-08 05:33:57 +0000 UTCMatt, not every artist can paint a picture. You sweetheart, have painted a masterpiece that will stay with me forever. Whenever I feel stressed, I will think of this and be immediately calmed. Thank you for this beautiful thing. 🫂
Dawn
2021-12-08 05:03:02 +0000 UTCThanks Jenn! 💜 Perfection? You’re too kind! But it’s so lovely to know we’ve been to that beautiful place together now! 😌xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 02:34:57 +0000 UTCThanks so much Shelley! 💜That’s blushing me in places I didn’t know I could blush. 🥰😘Well, I ran it through the Grammarly plagiarism checker anyway and got 0% which is more than can be said for my school essays 😂 See you on Friday! X
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 02:30:18 +0000 UTCYay Niamh!!💜 Thank-you for the kind words which I’m hearing you say in your accent. 🥰I’m so glad it knocked you out!! And I gotta say - now that we’re in love, I feel a lot better about all the naughty sex we’ve been having… 😂😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 02:26:58 +0000 UTC🤗 Biggest hug from my day to your night, Kris! 💜 I hope you can take down whatever is stressing you out soon. ☀️The sun is rising in Karachi as I write this, BTW. See this! https://in-the-sky.org/twilightmap.php 😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-08 02:15:43 +0000 UTCMatthew this is just beautiful. Between your deep voice and the imagery you created I’ve been taken to a beautiful place. Absolute perfection. ❤️
Lavender Belle (Jenn)
2021-12-08 01:57:36 +0000 UTCPlagiarism be damned. Even if you stole it word-for-word, your stunning voice would make it an original. The fact that it came from YOUR fascinating mind and boundless heart makes it absolutely exquisite💋💋💋
Shelley
2021-12-08 01:19:55 +0000 UTCYes, I believe you! This is such an honor coming from you haha thank youuuu 🥰🥰🥰
Katja
2021-12-08 01:19:27 +0000 UTCMatt!!! I listened to this first with the intention to come back and comment but I was out like a light 5 minutes in 😂 So I come to you half asleep after a proper listen and holy shit you write so beautifully and your words paired with that voice is otherworldly. The descriptions, the tie ins to previous affirmation audios, the natural rise and fall of volume in your voice... I think I’m in love 🥰
Niamh
2021-12-08 00:43:45 +0000 UTCDear Matt, this is absolutely gorgeous! 😍Indeed a labor of love - every sentence, no matter if short or long, is so potent with feelings of love and beauty. It starts airy and light but ends so warm and heavy, exactly like being out in the cold with a heavy winter jacket on and then getting home where the contrast between the comforting heat and cold from the outside makes you sleepy and kind of dazed. The way the image moves and the structure of it... You're incredibly clever! These upcoming days are gonna be a little difficult for me so I spent some time thinking what makes me feel more at peace and I thought of paintings or pictures. And how I love to imagine myself in one because it feels like I'm in a version of life filled with more beauty and joy and color. So this, your creation, is so dear to me because it's like a written painting. I find the ending especially moving because I had a little epiphany? The part where you mention the lights from the windows got me thinking how I like to imagine other people and their lives but now "seeing" the lights from my own window as we were returning home, felt like I was seeing myself from the perspective of others and that was kinda strange but very fun and comforting even though seemingly detached, I can't explain it properly...in any case, a very good feeling! I feel kind of silly saying it since I'm not a writer, but I think desctriptions are very hard to write. So fast they can turn dull and unimportant but yours are alive and compelling! It's got so much character as well as beauty and having it as audio really rounds it up. Like how Greek plays are experienced to their full potential only if seen performed live. You did brilliantly! 🤩 I'm gonna write some of the descriptions in my notebook where I keep quotes and such if you don't mind. 😌
Katja
2021-12-08 00:08:32 +0000 UTCMy dearest Matthew, I don't know how you do it but on some of my most stressful, upsetting days, you deliver some of the most beautiful, calming pieces of art (yes, I strongly consider this an art form) ever to grace my ears. I've been fighting tears for almost two hours and listening to this broke me in such a satisfying way, I nearly forgot what had me so upset in the first place. Thank you for doing what you do 💜💜💜 Edit: Giving it another listen started crying again at "We forget sometimes, as the Earth rotates beneath our feet, that winter and summer, day and night, don't really come and go. They just move. The sun will always be rising somewhere." I can't help but think of some of the times I was at my lowest. Bring myself to even be alive became a daily struggle. But as you say, the sun is always rising somewhere. Even in darkness, all the wonder and beauty of the world never leaves. It's always there, just waiting to be seen again.
Kris
2021-12-07 23:59:11 +0000 UTC💜Tara. 😳I can't remember if I mentioned - maybe I did in the first AMA - how interested I am in how entropy and the 2nd law of T can be applied to other areas of life. It started after reading Steven Pinker's research. I've never heard the term 'social entropy' before, but I'd LOVE to hear your presentation. No sh*t. You have nothing to be nervous about. I know that's easier said than done - but honestly, with practice - public speaking goes from nerve-wracking to a total yawn . You got this. And please upload notes to Turret later. 😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 23:56:34 +0000 UTCHey NeonVall! 💜Thanks for this lovely comment 🥰 It's is so cool to hear you got that good-brain-tickling feeling... That's just how I'd describe the ✨ASMR tingles✨ I get (which are mainly from just soft-spoken voices and getting attended to, like a haircut). I'm very happy the audio did that rather than give you the heebie-jeebies...😂 Have a lovely night... xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 23:49:03 +0000 UTCYep I’m gonna need this for sure—I have a big final presentation coming up on social entropy and thermodynamics and I’m VERY nervous (I have bad anxiety with public speaking 😭)…so any relaxation is more than welcome.
Tara Davenport
2021-12-07 23:32:54 +0000 UTCso to be honest .. asmr not really my thing. The moment someone starts talking I get a shiver down my spine (not the positive way XD) but I thought let's just give it a try and see what happens. in the beginning indeed the shivers, the moment you start talking about wavelets on the sea and your voice shifted from right to left..this weird tickling feeling went over my brain.. but in quite a positive way. After that the text came through more clearly and I could realy start listening to it. The way you describe everything is unbelievable. It is an art form and realy poetic. You probably see a lot of things when you look at the world around you. hold on to that! I listened again afterwards so i could really enjoy it and take it all in! Thank you for this beautifull and sensitive piece of word art! 🙏
NeonVall
2021-12-07 23:29:22 +0000 UTC🥰Ahhh - that's so lovely and... “Enough of that crap”. 😂🤣 No seriously, thanks for the toooo lovely words and for flittering into my imagination Llara 💜 - all the way up into the Turret… Folder… 😏 Nor now, I’ll meet your sunburned spirit at the hospital, and I’ll rub some lotions all over it - inside and out 😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 23:29:12 +0000 UTCYay - thanks for taking the time to read it, Meg 💜! Hopefully I've voiced it just right for bedtime... 🥰😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 23:23:50 +0000 UTC🥰You're so welcome, Jennifer 💜!! I feel very lucky to be able to work on things like this, so thanks soooo much for supporting me! 😘xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 23:15:21 +0000 UTCMy scientific/analytical brain is shuddering at the romantic drivel that is about to issue from my mouth 😣…… that butterfly… I recognize it…it’s ME! Thank-you for putting into a picture the way I feel about this self exploratory journey I have been on these last months. The velvet wish…erratic path… living for a day…. Finding those (mostly) softer passionate parts of me that rarely see light. All your mental pictures are such a stunning offering for souls that are starving for the beautiful parts of life and humanity….. ok…enough of that crap 😂…I need to take my sunburnt spirit to the hospital. Really you are a wonder, Matthew. Thank-you 😘
Double LL
2021-12-07 22:24:24 +0000 UTCThe full text is lovely! I’ll save the audio for bedtime 🌌🌘😪🍂🍃
Meg_just_Meg
2021-12-07 22:11:50 +0000 UTCThank-you so much, Indy! 🥰 That gave me an idea for a video - a visit to our native bird sanctuary here. 🦅🦉🦤And cool - I haven't read The Overstory. It looks really interesting though, and I see it won something called a Pulitzer! Can I have one of those too... 🥺😁💜xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 22:09:37 +0000 UTCOh, that’s lovely, Matthew! Thank you for your hard work and for sharing it with us 🥰💜💐
Jennifer
2021-12-07 22:03:04 +0000 UTCIt's good to hear you're not working your 💜a$$ off every day at least, Dee! 😁Even better to hear everything's going well!!! Enjoy your nap... 🤗XX
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 21:54:52 +0000 UTCThanks so much, Titania! So glad you thought so... 😌Hope you noticed a little repeated sentiment about flourishing... 💜xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 21:45:45 +0000 UTCHope it helps, Meg!! 🤗🪄✨Sleeeeeeeeep........😌💜xx
Matthew Tower
2021-12-07 21:44:06 +0000 UTCHow can a description of nature feel so intimate? This is beautiful. Loved the call back to Affirmations. It feels like a short cut- I remembered how relaxed I felt listening to that audio and was suddenly that relaxed within minutes of this audio starting. The paragraph about pine, birch, spruce, and willow and description of the strength and patience of trees is reminiscent of The Overstory by Richard Powers. I’d recommend it to anyone that enjoyed this audio with the caveat it will break your heart. On the practical side, thank you for including the text. I really appreciate being able to check if I think I misheard something rather than using this skip back button. You are so observant and have such a poetic view. I think this is hitting me so hard because it’s a look into what you would see on a nature walk. Like, we could be standing next to each other, watching the same leaves fall into the water, but I wouldn’t have seen “gold and copper coins”. It makes me want to know how you see everything.
IndyJane
2021-12-07 21:43:13 +0000 UTCOh this made me super relaxed and was able to visualize this place and be right there with you Bestie. Thank you so much! Now I’m going to go take a nap now. Had a bunch of check ups today. 💜💜 Everything is still going well. XOXO 🥰😘
Deanna Tyson
2021-12-07 21:28:36 +0000 UTCThis is so beautiful, I'm crying. (More later after some self care, e.g. letting it all out in the shower.) A million tiny ripples of gratitude coming your way. 💙💚💛
Titania
2021-12-07 21:20:50 +0000 UTCThe universe just answered my prayers. My insomnia is present on a day i really can’t afford for it to be. Thank you Matthew 💚💐
Meg
2021-12-07 21:04:05 +0000 UTC
