Where is your happy place?

[SouthernDem2004]

When you are stressed or depressed where do you go to escape? It could be a place or even a book or music.

Myself, I love bodies of water. A beach with crashing waves or just a normal everyday lake. Noting like sitting on the shore at 2:00 am when no one else is around. Very peaceful and relaxing. It is easy to forget the problems of the world.

Peace

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. The California Coast.

[SouthernDem2004]

8. Are the beaches crowded in CA day and night?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. There are a lot of beaches away from the crowd.

[Maestro]

2. Underneath my desk

in a fetal position sucking my thumb.

[LastKnight]

3. i dont have one place, specifically...

sometimes i grab one of my guitars...

others ill go for a long run... which ends up being a constant sprint and i feel awesome afterward, just so exhausted and sore, rushing from the runner's high that i cant think... and thats kinda the point... thiers nothing like tearing through the neighborhoods of my home town at 4 am...

that or i go listen to some music... 3 songs in specific... Hurt (johnny cash version), Bother by Stone Sour, and Right Where it Belongs by NIN. yea, their kinda dark... after i listen to those 3 songs i can venture in any musical direction, roaming my realplayer library for something to make me feel better.

yea, i have to do all this too much, thats why i have so many alternatives...

[tjwmason]

18. Music here too.

Slighty less specific, it depends on why I'm in a bad mood.

If I'm in a really pissed off arsey mood, then gutsy modernist French organ music.

If I'm depressed, then rennaissance polyphony (Miserere Mei by Allegri is particularly good for this), or perhaps some mystical minimalism such as Paert.

If I'm just down in the dumps, some 'happy' baroque music - the Bach Brandenburg Concerti, or The Fairy Queen by Purcell.

Sometimes just some music which is so internally complex, yet also sumblimely simple (I'm thinking Goldberg Variations or Bach 'Cello Suites) which just litterally pulls my mind into it.

A glass of very strong gin and tonic never hurts either.

[LastKnight]

26. i love classical music...

i was first chair violin of my highschool orchestra for 2 years and second chair for another 1 and a half...

favorite was hadyn, not the most complex or most notable... but hey... i liked him...

not sayin those 3 songs are all i listen to when i need a pick-me-up... its a start, though, i just tend to wander my playlists and libraries after that. but those are my starting points.

[tjwmason]

28. I think that Haydn is the epitome of the classical era

Both in its good senses and its bad. It is very easy to listen to, and fulfills its function nearly perfectly.

I'm quite similar in that I need something fairly specific to start my off in the right direction, then once it's started to seep in, I can move onto other works.

I'm afraid that in orchestral terms I was that rather evil/freakish breed 'the viola player' (at least I wasn't in the brass section).

I'm guessing that your C.D. collection has been a wee bit over-worked recently. Hope that things are getting better, however gradually.

P.S. Missa Sancti Nicolai by Haydn playing at the moment. :D

[LastKnight]

30. yea... im gonna need to replace a few of the regualr disks that

have a long term home in my player... but their stay is projected to be shorter every day. things are gettin better, nights are still hard. but its gettin alot better...

you have good tastes in music, by the way.

[Rowdyboy]

4. A hayfield with an abandoned shack where I flew kites when I was a kid....

I'd take a book (usually science fiction but a few classics), a kite and a blanket and set up for the day in the middle of a field.

When I'm stressed, I close my eyes and I'm there

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My happy place?

Right here, in my study, at my computer...escaping from the world around me, or from the world in my head....DU is so good for me that way.....My very own private room....it's wonderful.

[NJCher]

6. A Garden, of course!

Something about pruning rosebushes....


Cher

[Gemini Cat]

7. Coney Island. nt

[SouthernDem2004]

23. Why do they have a hotdog named after the place at Sonic?

Its just a chili-dog with cheese.

[fleabert]

9. me too. water. even a bath will do, in a pinch. nt

[mcctatas]

11. In my dreams....

Unfortunately, there is always some repuke asshole there too and I am forced to rip off his arm and beat him about the head and face with it over and over and over and over.......ad infinitum:banghead:

[ifyouknewsushi]

12. MacDonalds is my happy place,

Such a happy place. A hap-hap-happy pla.......

I hate when I wake up like this.

My happy place is anyplace but where I am...lol.

2006 Come On!!!!

[sasquatch]

13. A good resteraunt, right now a good gyro

[In_The_Wind]

14. the ocean is my favorite place to visit

[AndyTiedye]

15. Wherever There Is Music to Dance To, Preferably Outdoors

[NMMNG]

16. My ideal place would be a desert in the Southwest

But I rarely have the money for such an extravagant vacation.


Second choice is a few days at the beach (weather and money permitting). Relaxing with no worries, listening to the sound of the waves pounding all day and night is so de-stressing. This is perhaps once or twice a year.



My typical thing to do is hole up in my bedroom with my "ocean waves" (an entire hour of waves)CD or my "Sounds of the Seashore" CD (soft music with waves, seagulls and other seashore sounds). I may read a book, relax in my chair or take a nap.

[mark11727]

17. Cooperstown!

[enigmatic]

19. Literally/Figuratively..

The Canadian Badlands of Southern Alberta; awe-inspiring desolate beauty, and a bunch of cool little towns that sprinkle the landscape...

My station; I'm happiest when I'm programming/DJing my show, and getting emails from people across the world telling me that they love listening in. Playing my guitar and making music, too..

And of course, my wife; she's my real happy place.

[Tsiyu]

21. What a sweet thing to say about your DW

I have a few. Tybee. Wyoming. The Tor. Maastricht.

And I'm ready to scope out a few more - on the coast of Brazil, maybe New Zealand, Eastern Europe, Morocco, some Pacific island....those Canadian Badlands sound bad....

In the immortal words of Blue bayou

"I'm goin' back someday, come what may..."

[Squeech]

20. Matcom's house

Seriously, I am in dire need of a happy place. Seems to me the last time I had one was back in the 20th century.

[matcom]

22. Michael, your just tooooo cool

:D

:hug: canNOT wait to see you next weekend!

[undeterred]

24. I take my dog for a walk in the woods- there is a lake there

and then the world seems right.

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Mountains

there's something about rural New England that is really calming to me

[Darth_Kitten]

27. I went and sat by the water yesterday....

was having a bad day thanks to a JERK at work and had a good cry.

It helped me.

I love bodies of water as well. :)

[Phentex]

29. My hammock.

[Jamastiene]

31. Town Creek Indian Mound

I've been there at times when other than the staff that runs the place, I was the only one there. It's such a serene and peaceful place. I always get this surreal sense of calm when I go there. It's unbelievable. I know this is a wee bit morbid but I have always said that when I die, I want to be creamated and to have my ashes spread at Town Creek Indian Mound and in Little River behind it.