Anyone ever been to the Burning Man????

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Several of my cousins friends went out to this event over the summer, but neither of us had heard of it before then.

As with anything else that interests me, I have researched the hell out of this and can't wait to go now!

I absolutely love the whole concept! CAN'T WAIT!! !!

Be curious to hear if anyone has had any experiences of it...

we have been master planning and preparing our "camp"....

http://www.burningman.com/

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I have never been, but I have fantasized about it a lot.

Tim

I wanted to go but never got the chance to do so.

If there was ever a place in this universe that I would completely mesh...it would be there!!

Talk about growing your own culture!

I went in 2011, just the one time.

While I highly value the experience, I'm not sure I would recommend it universally, as it can be very intense, and if you're prone to sensory overload, you'll have every opportunity to experience every kind of overload you can imagine.

If you're open to socializing while under the influence of mind-altering substances, consider BM to be an opportunity to dive right into the deep end of the pool.

I did shrooms while there, on the night that they burned the "Man", and consider those hours to be near the top of my life experiences.

Here are my photos from that year:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArngPOZxkcQulM0E3prvpvKnXxp2Uw?e=MKk6dD

Here's an article about Burning Man, including a photo of me there:
https://www.city.fi/kulttuuri/puu-ukon+polttamiseen+huipentuva+burning+man+vaikuttaa+monella+tavalla/10104

Darron

I’d like to go to something like that. I guess you could always create your own experience like that with friends, some night in some wild deserted place.

No, but I remember when Jeff and Hailey went.

Yes, but there's no practical way to get 70,000 of your closest friends to get together in one place at one time, build a massive temporary "city", build, show, and in many cases destroy in grand fashion some rather impressive works of art, drive around in some of the wildest "art cars" ever seen on Planet Earth, be exposed to every kind of sensory stimulation that you can imagine (and many you can not!), experience "raves" at a scale and intensity seldom seen, survive a harsh environment at anything from bare subsistence level to full-blown luxury (depending on your means and desires), talk to very strange people that in "real life" would fly under the radar, never revealing their inner selves, touch and be touched by people that revel in human contact (to any degree that you might find tolerable), find a relatively safe way to reach a chemically-altered state of mind, guided by people that have trodden that path before, and best of all, not be judged harshly because you are different! In fact, exploring ways of being "different", and witnessing the many ways that differences can manifest in others, is essentially the whole point of Burning Man.

Darron

I've seen the art, Black Rock City looks interesting, but I see the dj line up and it's really not for me.

I'll take interest when I see Quartz, Mantra, Djinn, Double-O, Loxy, some kind of serious jungle / dnb tent. My take - they're way too 'hippie' for that, which is part of why I'd spend a weekend or week feeling totally out of my element. If it's just a week-long escape from daddy issues and stays that way I'll take a pass.

If a Burning Man event happens in Oregon later this year, I will consider attendance.

No, But I know a bit about it. Basically a sex and drug orgy in the desert, with scantily clad hippies creating expressing themselves through zany architectural constructions, and impromptu counter-cultural performance art, right? oh and they burn stuff too, right?

That's not an entirely inaccurate definition of the event...

I've watched videos...I'm interested in American culture, mainstream and otherwise.

I'd say that Burning Man is exactly as representative of modern "American culture" as a Berlin Cabaret was of the culture of Nazi Germany in 1933.

Darron

No. But I want to go for the lighted art instalations. The pictures and videos I've seen look beautiful. I really enjoy the medium of lights and glowing things for art. I'm not sure I'd enjoy all those people though seems overwhelming. So I'll have to get by enjoying the pictures online.

If you do go, please share about it!

Sex orgy you say? Count me in!