I did my DP today with other people in the room. It was alittle hard to concentrate but after a few minutes I got over it. Then I reached a state where i was aware of the others but not distracted by them. I tried letting my mind '"wonder as i watched it." Unfortunately all I could think about was the concept of what I was doing and thus did not successfully do it. I abandoned that idea and just went back to playing the guitar. I tried to gently bring myself back to the guitar without being forceful. I think I'm getting a lot better at entering into the contemplative state and keeping it that way
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10/25/09
I just did an experiment with mirroring, psychological synchronizing. I sat in my room with my room mate as he worked on a script he's writing for a class. I tried to mimic his movements, his breathing, and his behavior, with the sound, the rhythm, and the melody of my guitar. I felt that i was doing a pretty good job. But as i awatched Ryan, I realized that he responded much more acutely to my music than I did to his movements. Sometimes we would both pause at the same time, hoding out breath, and resume at the same time with no verbal or conscious cues
Ryan was unaware of my experiment and unaware of his own mirroring, but never the less he achieved remarkable synchronization. Towards the end Ryan even started whistling to my music, predicting the melody before I played it. I consider this a very successful exploration of mirroring.
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