- Call yourself
- Empty a word of its meaning
- Look in vain for "I"
- Make the world last twenty minutes
- See the stars below you
- See a landscape as a stretched canvas
- Lose something and not know what
- Recall where you were this morning
- Hurt yourself briefly
- Feel eternal
- Telephone at random
- Rediscover your room after a journey
- Drink while urinating
- Make a wall between your hands
- Walk in the dark
- Dream of all the places in the world
- Peel an apple in your head
- Visualize a pile of human organs
- Imagine yourself high up
- Imagine your imminent death
- Try to measure existence
- Count to a thousand
- Dread the arrival of the bus
- Run in a graveyard
- Play the fool
- Watch a woman at her window
- Invent lives for yourself
- Look at people from a moving car
- Follow the movement of ants
- Eat a nameless substance
- Watch dust in the sun
- Resist tiredness
- Overeat
- Play the animal
- Contemplate a dead bird
- Come across a childhood toy
- Wait while doing nothing
- Try not to think
- Go to the hairdresser
- Shower with your eyes closed
- Sleep on your front in the sun
- Go to the circus
- Try on clothes
- Calligraphize
- Light a fire in the hearth
- Be aware of yourself speaking
- Weep at the cinema
- Meet up with friends after several years
- Browse at the bookseller's
- Become music
- Pull out a hair
- Walk in an imaginary forest
- Demonstrate on your own
- Stay in the hammock
- Invent headlines
- Listen to short-wave radio
- Turn off the sound on the TV
- Redisover a childhood scene that seemed larger
- Get used to eating something you don't like
- Fast for a while
- Rant for ten minutes
- Drive through a forest
- Give without thinking about it
- Look for a blue food
- Become a saint or sinner
- Recover lost memories
- Watch someone sleeping
- Work on a holiday
- Consider humanity to be an error
- Inhabit the planet of small gestures
- Disconnect the phone
- Smile at a stranger
- Enter the space of a painting
- Leave the cinema in daytime
- Plunge into cold water
- Seek out immutable landscapes
- Listen to a recording of your voice
- Tell a stranger she is beautiful
- Believe in the existence of a smell
- Wake up without knowing where
- Descend an interminable staircase
- Swallow your emotion
- Fix the ephemeral
- Decorate a room
- Laugh at an idea
- Vanish at a pavement cafe
- Row on a lake in your room
- Prowl at night
- Become attached to an object
- Sing the praises of Santa Claus
- Play with a child
- Encounter pure chance
- Recite the telephone directory on your knees
- Think about what other people are doing
- Practice make-believe everywhere
- Kill people in your head
- Take the subway without going anywhere
- Remove your watch
- Put up with a chatterbox
- Clean up after the party
- Find the infinitesimal caress
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Astonish Yourself
The following are from Roger-Pol Droit's book Astonish Yourself! 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life (2003).
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