The Landscape Game

DarkyBreeding · July 2010

(This takes a bit of explaining so bare with me) Landscape Game I don't remember who I first played the "Landscape Game" with. It was awhile ago when I played this game. I don't remember what my answers were to the game's 10 questions, but I wish I would've wrote them down. Once you lose the first answers you write, they are lost forever. You can only play the Landscape Game one time in your life. Once you know the answer interpretations any chance of replying honestly and openly is gone. It is one of those things that if you know the "solution" it will make any other answer you give basically a lie. The Landscape game is true once and only once. The good thing, though, is after this game is played with you, you can play with others. After you have the interpretations, you can spread the game forever. It can be played in groups-as long as there is at least 2 people playing and one person has never played before. I don't know how the Landscape Game originated, but I'll tell you what I was told: "The Landscape Game" is a variation of an ancient Chinese "thought experiment," or means of self-examination and revelation. It is thought to predate the I-Ching ( +/- 2700 BC ), perhaps as a precursor, but nobody is sure exactly when it came into being. It is seldom written down, but is instead passed from person to person across the generations. Those with whom it is played take it and play it with others. And so it goes on. Like many deeper things in life, the Landscape Game looks simple as a stone on the surface, but like the ripples of the water as you drop that stone in, it goes much further than that. The game consists of 10 questions that are always asked in the same order. The one being asked the questions should think calmly about the answers to each question and respond in a detailed manner giving the FIRST thing that pops into his/her mind. This is important: Each question must be answered before the following question or you'll get lost. The Rule: The only one rule is that if you have played this game before, you mustn't play again because you know the outcome and your answers will be false. The questioner relies on the honesty of those being questioned. Ready? No? Ok..I'll wait a moment. How bout now? Yes? Ok. The Ten Questions: 1) You are sleeping and you dream. Describe your dream 2) You wake up in a house. The house can be anywhere within the world. Describe the house and where it is located in the world. 3) When you wake up, what time is it? 4) You get up and go into the kitchen. What kind of kitchen is in this house? 5) You are going out for a walk. As you go to the door, you notice the trees around the house. How many are there and how are they placed in relation to the house? 6) You are following a winding path of stones and sand, past rocks and dry reeds that rattle and hum in the breeze. You crest a rise and start down. Looking around you see, beside the path, a bowl which you pick up and carry with you. Describe the bowl. 7) The path moves on past ruins, there are false turnings everywhere, but you move straight on. Beside the path you see a key which you pick up and carry with you. What is the key like? 8 ) The path moves out of a forest into the open. It grows hot. You find yourself at a body of water. What kind of body of water is it and what do you do when you come up to it? 9) You move on along the path and, after some time you come to a wall. What is the wall made of? What you do when you come to it? 10) What lies beyond the wall? Answer each question, one before the other and write it below. Don't be ashamed to write your answers. If you are, just open a document and do it there. But I'd love to see everyone's answers. The Interpretation of Your Answers The Interpretations of your answers will be given: Saturday, August 14 This is to keep the answers true and real so no one "cheats" You have until then to play the game.

DarkyBreeding · July 2010

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lovefrompaige · July 2010

1) You are sleeping and you dream. Describe your dream - I'm a spy, saving the world 2) You wake up in a house. The house can be anywhere within the world. Describe the house and where it is located in the world. My families' old beach house next to the beach when the sun is coming up. 3) When you wake up, what time is it? Early morning when the sun is coming up 4) You get up and go into the kitchen. What kind of kitchen is in this house? A nice small kitchen with white counters and table tops with a bar built into it and 3 wooden stools. The walls are a soft baby blue and curtains are silky white. 5) You are going out for a walk. As you go to the door, you notice the trees around the house. How many are there and how are they placed in relation to the house? Theres not many trees. Theres one palm tree and a bunch of bushes and vines that grows on the walls to the houses I walk by. 6) You are following a winding path of stones and sand, past rocks and dry reeds that rattle and hum in the breeze. You crest a rise and start down. Looking around you see, beside the path, a bowl which you pick up and carry with you. Describe the bowl. Its blue stone that has white stripes and is cracked a bit 7) The path moves on past ruins, there are false turnings everywhere, but you move straight on. Beside the path you see a key which you pick up and carry with you. What is the key like? An old rusty gold trunk key. It looks like it would belong to a castle 8 ) The path moves out of a forest into the open. It grows hot. You find yourself at a body of water. What kind of body of water is it and what do you do when you come up to it? Its a small lake. I take the bowl thats cracked a bit and try to fill it with water and quickly drink from it 9) You move on along the path and, after some time you come to a wall. What is the wall made of? What you do when you come to it? Stone. I try to see if I can climb over it. 10) What lies beyond the wall? A valley with the sun set and birds flying with tons of pretty animals I hope I did that right ^_^ It was fun.

DarkyBreeding · July 2010

Ahha yes, you did it right {|:)

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The Landscape Game

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