I've been to Meow Wolf twice now. The first time in Santa Fe on my honeymoon and it was a delightful shock then. And just last weekend I got to go back but in Dallas. And I'm infatuated, enthralled, I could go back a lot. But I'm glad it's not where I live because I would. 

It's a "worlds." A multidimentsional experience of the eyes and mind. 

The Front Door to it all is an Ordinary But Nostaglic World, which has many doors into another drastically different and "unreal" dimension, where it seems up is down and down is up. 

My emotions are:

  • A sense of nostalgic and childhood ... in the Ordinary World, it's very nostaglic, bringing one back to childhood, at least for me. I walked through the house feeling drawn back to my own childhood with prompts of kids bedrooms and closets and notes on the dresser, and books and things laying around. 
  • A sense of magic, transformation, curiousity finding and discovering portals and where they will take you next. 
  • A sense of awe and wonder and curiosity and delight ... I wanted to just say in there but all by myself and walk around and sit and look and investigate and see all the detail. It was magical artistic expression that resonates deeply with me. 

THE PORTALS

I loved looking around, pulling handles and door knobs and trying to find the portals. Every time. It's so fun, because when you open it you don't know what you'll find on the other side. The creativity of where the portals are is so fascinating. I wanted to pull books off shelves. 

They were the surprising entry point to the beyond, unreal, unknown. 

THE TRANSFORMATION AND DISORIENTING CONTRAST

You go from familiar to extremely unfamiliar. Really real to very unreal. And I love it. 

There is a big disorientation for sure. And maybe that's what I love. 

The severe contrast. Everything seems off. And I liked that. 

THE UNDERLYING JOURNEY

It would be killer on a shamanic-guided psychadelic journey. 

Open the washer ... and it's a portal into another world and it feels at points like being born. I felt scared, trapped, uncomfortable but had to keep going through it.

In the dryer, I felt like it went amazingly fast, like a slide (which it was) and I dumped quickly out the other side. 

Another stark contrast. 

Shamans call that The Cave. 

The Other World felt both organic and natural and earthy at times. And galactic space in others. 

I BOUGHT ALL THE THINGS

The gift shop was my heaven of swag .... I got a hat, stickers. I wanted to buy the whole store. And I'm not like that usually, unless it's LEGO.