I had a really interesting idea yesterday that hasn’t shaken. I started listening to some sleep stories to help me go to bed. One reason in particular is because novels are usually always full of conflict which isn’t conducive to sleep. Sleep stories seem to be designed to be relaxing and voice of anything that might cause any stress or anxiety. One of the fascinating things about Headspace was that it’s sleep stories were ‘ever changing’. This must be because on the back end of every recording unbeknownst to the user, there is a playlist of 2 minute recordings that get switched around over a bed of soundscape. Pretty interesting idea, though not effective for actual storytelling per se. While listening it also gave me a bunch of ideas.
- What if I were to tell my own stories from my Battle Universe in the form of a sleep story.
- What if you mixed up guided meditation and sleep stories, so breathing, visualization, and noting were a part of the story. Right now headspace has breathing exercises at the beginning, but what if in the story your 2nd person character sees things and you must inhale at the amazing sight, or the sounds.
- What if you made the experience of sleep stories more visceral, sights, sounds, smells, touching experiences within the story. Im sure this has been done, I’d like to experience it.
- Is there a place I can just upload my own if I do this? I haven’t really found a place so part of me thinks there Is space for an app that acts as a meditation store.
- What if I were to make my own meditation app centered around fantasy meditation, visualization, audible stories. This would allow my fantasy stories, but then for the app to be much more accessible and creative for other creatives. We could also license out other properties to make fantasy meditations like Star Wars or Harry Potter.
Naturally like all my other ideas, this one must sit in my mind for some time before the opportunity presents itself. I don’t want to spend much more time on it if I lose passion in a couple weeks on it. If you are a dev, feel free to steal the idea, would rather it get made then make it myself.
