#such windy ambient sounds

[vv-ispy]

I wanna go under Dvalin's tower

[momoksha]

dogs barking in the street on a windy night (spooky reverb version) [audio]🐕🌕🌲🎶

[aphelion-alifer]

relieving wing related dysphoria

something that I see many winged folks experience, including myself, is wing related dysphoria. more specifically, dysphoria relating to not being able to fly or not having wings physically. all my life this is a struggle I've dealt with, and I understand how painful it is. there are ways to relieve it though! here's some things that I've come up with and suggest to those who are struggling:

create mood boards, wallpapers, stim boards, and pinterest boards relating to the sky, your wings, theriotype, shifted form, etc

dive into media that has winged people/creatures (maximum ride, the maleficent movies, the croaking, just to name a few)

play games that let you fly, either with or without wings. bonus points if you're able to do it in VR (roblox, minecraft, feralheart, aer memories of old, superflight, fugl, etc)

practice lucid dreaming or astral projection

blankets!! especially weighted blankets, this can mimic the feeling of having wings

create or buy cosplay wings that look like your own (either typical cosplay wings worn with a harness/straps, or a backpack with wings, or a shawl in the shape of wings)

wear the colors of your wings, theriotype or shifted form

surround yourself with wing related themes or themes related to your theriotype or shifted form (buttons, pins, stickers, doodles, plushies, etc)

wear wing related accessories (rings, necklaces, hair pins, wings you can put on the laces of your shoes, etc)

if you're able to, get wings tattooed on your back or get a tattoo related to your theriotype or shifted form

if you're able to, participate in sky/air related sports or activities (skydiving, wingsuit flying, paragliding, hang gliding, etc)

draw/doodle your wings, theriotype or shifted form!!

meditate and visualize your wings. feel their weight, see their colors and textures, etc.

connect and talk to others who have wings if you need support and are looking for folks who have had similar experiences

carry around a backpack and make sure to give it some weight! having a backpack of a similar weight to my phantom wings tends to make my phantom wings go away, if you're looking to stop your phantom wings from existing for a bit for any reason

collect feathers that look like yours if you have feathered wings

connect with nature! this helps ground me and feel more connected to my natural self. I suggest going outside on a windy day or climbing trees.

stick your head/arms out of the car when you're going somewhere! this is one of my favorite things to do and it mimics what I imagine flying to feel like (pro tip, don't do this if you're driving)

make your room feel like the environment you belong in (using nature or wind ambient sounds, fans to get air flowing, that sort of thing)

watch flying POV videos

I'm sure there are more things that I could add, but I think that this is all my brain can think of at the moment. feel free to add onto the list if there's anything else that any of you want to add if I missed anything!

[mystic-writings]

Tommy and rain😌

Like a gloomy rainy inside day with him would be nice I think

i'm so sorry this took forever but omg i love this prompt so much it's so adorable- also this is my first time writing for tommy so i apologise if it's not quite right (but there's barely dialogue anyway)

rainy days | tommyinnit x fem!reader | 630~ words

From the moment you woke up, you could feel the damp in your bones. Living in England, a rainy day was common, but you were still getting used to it. Unlike your loving boyfriend, who definitely wasn’t snoring in the bed beside you, England wasn’t your native territory. Originally, you were from America. You’d had your fair share of rainy days, but not as often or as windy as the ones in England – Brighton especially. 

The rest of the room was cold, but the bedsheets and Tommy’s sleeping body were providing a comfortable heat that was nearly lulling you back to sleep. 

You would end up staying this way for a little while longer, until Tom’s phone rang and Toby was on the other line, asking him a favour about one of their stream plans for later in the week. It was when he got up to head to the computer that you decided to get both your days started with breakfast and tea, which you were setting up on the coffee table instead of the table itself when Tom entered the room. 

“How’s it sound we have a quiet day?” He asked, coming to wrap his arms around you as you stood all the way up. 

You leaned into his body, soaking up his warmth. “Sounds perfect, actually. Wanna watch something on the tv?”

“Sure, love. Is it okay if we watch some of Schlatt’s new videos before we watch movies or something like that?”

Quickly, you agreed before pulling apart and sitting down. Tom put the videos on and queued a few others up before you both dug in. 

Breakfast was delicious, and you were proud of yourself for your steadily improving cooking skills. The rain continuously battered the window on the other side of the living room, providing a nice ambience for the otherwise chaotic video. You took yours and Tommy’s plate from the table and brought them to the kitchen, making more tea for the both of you while you were there. 

After handing Tom his mug, you sank into the couch next to him, curling up into his side and grabbing the blanket that was draped across the back of the couch to cover you both up with. 

For a while, you sat and watched videos, until moving onto a rotating selection of movies – one you wanted to watch, then one Tom wanted to watch, and so on until things got boring. You put a nice ambient video from YouTube on the TV, still curled into Tom’s side while he scrolled through his social media platforms and you grabbed the book you’d been recently reading from the coffee table. 

Days like these were peaceful, relaxing types of days. The apartment was mostly dark, since only a warm lighted lamp and the glow of the TV provided light. The dark clouds overhead added a beautiful atmosphere, and you wished that days like these could last forever. 

Tom had his phone on silent, and your book was beginning to get interesting. There were no distractions, just you and Tom, enjoying each other in silence – aside from him occasionally showing you something interesting or funny that he thought you would like (and you usually did like what he showed you). 

Most days spent like these, including today, you and Tom normally end up taking an absurdly good and slightly too long nap. At some point, with the lull of the music and the soft, warm lights, you fell asleep with your book on the floor, Tom’s phone slipping from his hands, as you splayed out as best as you could on the couch – with your head on Tom’s chest, his arm around your waist, the blanket tangled up in your legs, intertwined with his as the rain continued to pour well into the evening. 

[cruxifyglitter]

Sakna “De syv dødssynder”

one-man black/folk/doom metal band

I found out about this band recently through spotify and I want to share it with everyone cause it’s so good, it’s a Canadian one-man black/folk/doom metal band founded by the late solemn who sadly took his life in March 2011 (RIP). His only and last album was released on may 8th, 2024 (De Syv Dødssynder) which was all written and recorded by solemn from 2006 - 2011. His brother has been working hard on getting his last album out for the last decade.

“It is with a bittersweet sense of pride and relief that I share with you a culmination of over a decade and a half of work of recovering my brother's music from old corrupted hard-drives, piecing the songs back together and mixing them to completion.” - Sakna’s brother

Listening to the album you get transported into this mysterious, fantasy world. The vocals sound angelic and heavy, deep and emotional they are very versatile. It is one of those projects that genuinely moved me to tears. There are heaven like melodies and melodies straight out of hell. The guitar riffs are super great and unique. This whole record is like nothing I have ever heard before.

My favorite song on the record was “Berceuse Astrale (Bonus Track)”, it felt like going from this big windy snowy landscape into this hole in the mountain for shelter, where there may be some trolls hiding who knows?. The whole 8 minutes is such a beautiful journey showcased through sound.

This is one of my new favorite metal bands now and this whole project is too beautiful not to share with other enjoyers of the genre.

I added some links if you want follow the band on any socials or stream the album. This is all done out of love and respect for the band and music.

The album on youtube + saknas youtube channel

The album on spotify

The album on bandcamp + info

Sakna’s myspace

sources used for information: sakna.bandcamp, sakna on spotify & @sankaeternus on ig

[literally-online]

Hello! Today marks the release of a new musical project I've been working on for the past month or so: Sleep Buddy! Ambient music to help you focus or just get some sleep.

Available now on Spotify and Apple Music!

You can read more about where the project came from below:

After dropping out of college, joining a band, moving in with the band, watching the band fall apart, and then subsequently finding myself with an increasing amount of pent-up musically creative energy, I decided I wanted to make something of my own.

I was also about five years deep into a stint of severe insomnia — from my first year of high school onward I generally only slept about an hour or two each night. After my friends would fall asleep and there was nobody left awake to play games with or text or talk to on the phone, I'd spend the quietest hours of my evenings teaching myself how to produce music.

The blend of these two issues manifested itself into a love of producing and listening to ambient music, and I set out with the goal of creating an album that would help me fall asleep each night. It was freeing to break away from the verse-chorus song structure I'd become so acclimated to, allowing myself to let long droning synths reverberate for hours into the night or searching for field recordings of windy plains or rainy farmhouses to see how I could incorporate the sounds of nature into my compositions. I'd write a song, load it onto my iPod, hop into my car, and cruise around empty New Jersey streets to hear how it worked as a soundtrack for the drive. In the span of about three weeks, I'd finished and released my first solo album under the artist name Boqeh: Halcyon.

Halcyon saw the beginning of a new habit: Almost every single day I'd open up my laptop and throw some nice sounding synths and chords together and let them loop endlessly while I worked on other tasks. Usually these project files would get deleted at the end of the day, but every once in a while they'd be saved and fleshed out into a full track for a hypothetical future album release. My next few ambient albums as Boqeh all followed that same songwriting process, but I eventually got more into the habit of deleting files than saving them. Slowly but surely, I stopped releasing music altogether as my career and other creative endeavors took center stage in my life.

Although I grew into the habit of deleting my daily project files, I never kicked the habit of starting a new one almost every morning. In 2018 while discussing the rise of ten-hour relaxation YouTube videos and 24/7 lofi hip-hop beats streams with a friend, I wondered aloud why I wasn't using the huge volume of music I was creating and disposing of daily to do something similar.

It's taken ten years since the release of Halcyon for me to feel confident enough to make it happen, but I'm finally done erasing the work I create.

Enter Sleep Buddy.

Sleep Buddy is both a new project and revitalization of the intention behind Halcyon — albums of carefully crafted and original ambient music with the goal of helping listeners fall asleep or relax while working on other tasks. Today marks the release of the first album: Intro.

Intro is a thesis statement. Available as a ten hour YouTube video (of course), on Bandcamp, or through your favorite streaming service like Apple Music or Spotify, it contains just under two hours of original ambient music covering a wide variety of ideas I plan on drilling further into for future releases. Almost the entirety of the album was written and produced over three weeks in January of this year, and in the time it has taken to distribute Intro to music platforms, I have already finished a followup for release sometime next month. If all goes well, expect a new Sleep Buddy release monthly in 2023.

In the meantime I hope you'll give this first album a listen, and if you do I hope it helps you relax.

You deserve it.

Head to sleepbuddy.online for more. <3

[styrmwb]

Favorite Final Fantasy Music (FFXI - Chains of Promathia)

We at the second expansion babyyyyyy!!! This is like, the end of the first arc of FFXI in a way, finishing up the story from the base game and Rise of the Zilart. Huge on story, lots of good characters, and maybe only a little confusing! I think this part of the soundtrack excels at the ambient or chill vibes, but there are some battle themes I do really like.

5. Gates of Paradise - The Garden of Ru'Hmet Like I said: this expansion is all about chill/ambient vibes. This is the song that plays in the final dungeon, very similar to Tu'Lia (it's the same architecture). The harp and the dissonance sounds like you're going through a maze (which fits cause this dungeon is absolutely a maze). The song is a lot of the same for a good while, until eventually the pan flute comes in, giving the song a windy, yet still empty vibe, then you bring in the aliens. And by that I mean a very strange synth noise that I absolutely love and it gives me more motivation to keep going through this very large dungeon.

4. Faded Memories - Promyvion This song might not seem like much, but neither does the area it plays in, and it fits perfectly. Promyvion is a void realm (in XI they call it Emptiness) that is basically the pinnacle of what is eating at the world. The creatures are strange, bug like soul things (if you've played XIV you'll see the model on the moon), and the landscape is incomplete white plains. I love the looping backing track making you feel dizzy, the deep synth bass, and the main melody feeling familiar, but sorrowful.

3. The Celestial Capital - Al'Taieu My favorite zone! Al'Taieu is super cool. The zone has you walking on this flat, teal lake; strange pink architecture with a giant orange portal in the sky. The creatures are extremely alien, with a mix of some looking strangely concrete, others glowing rainbow neon. (and then another one being so hard that it takes several cheating methods to kill and keeps getting buffed to avoid this) The song drones on, with a very fun synthy melody. The entire thing is alien, and I absolutely love it. The zone and the song work together perfectly in tandem; the zone is made for the song, and the song is made for the zone.

2. A New Horizon - Tavnazian Archipelago We're getting away from the strange and alien, and going towards something more grounded, yet still calm. I love the main wind instrument (I don't think it's a flute but it might be), as well as the sort of percussion (again not sure what instrument it is but it kinda fulfills that role) hitting in pairs of eighth notes, giving the song that beat that it needs without being too much. When the song rises more, bringing in the harp behind the main wind melody; it sounds beautiful. it sounds hopeful, it sounds free. This song really makes a strong impression, being the first new zone you enter in the expansion.

1. Onslaught Finally! A battle theme! This is the battle theme that plays when you're in a party, and with that big trill in the start, this feels like a war song. The horns feel triumphant, and then you get them into the main melody (which is so fun to listen to), hitting some high notes and taking sorts of steps down. I also love the flute repeating, spiraling downwards. The snare, tambourine (FFXI loves the fucking tambourine and I am here for it), and the timpani make perfect percussion to keep up that sort of battle vibe the song started with. Love this song.

Honorable mentions go to: Conflict: March of the Hero, Turmoil, Depths of the Soul, The Forgotten City - Tavnazian Stronghold, and each "Ode" piece.

[t-underneaththeradardancing]

so yah like - i played and shit - no drama - well maybe - and the cord shorts - for 3rd time -2 others before  - i suggest another cord while also arranging alternate guitar - both r possible - new cord and no prob - and we play more or less  the planned -  last miniit  small change/s and coming off confident when actually unsure and quirky as adjusting - but i think the trance is working - in retro feelz slo motion but at the time - wuz somewhere and hyper aware of every change and its rarely like the dining room - wishing there was recording going places i might not knowing and acting casual  - a spark here and there lights up magic for the momentary glimpse of the i dont wat the fuk it is - and i dont know how its coming off at 1st but nobody talking loudly so most ppl must b listening and its a little crowded - i should look out at the crowd maybe once in awhile - mash up aint superstitous and rollin and tumblin w a couple lines of another robert johnson -  this was a pre show going thru motions muscle memory and last minute change just before leaving - jazzier than heavy sans amp - blondie plugged straight into pa - more of a mellow  clean no distortion but nicely ambient best straight into pa sound ever - noah does a really excellent  job w sound - anyway 2nd song the weight someone maybe 2 sang along at times always a good sign - finis w st james infirmary which went somewhere it never had before almost a rag time 

so forgot few words  - emoted like fukk - good audience response - didnt get lost too much - took some chances - wish there was a recording but 

a little exhausted  - it was drizzle rain but not too cold after much wetter bluster early 

it woulda been considered victory just to show up - closest thing to a nice day when theres been an open mic  eve except 1 that was last minute cancelled for football - its been a miserable winter wet and windy - had some fun listening to others also - will post a couple snippets tomorrow  - a few nice comments after performance 

for a few moments - its only the music and weaving  connection as many magic flashes as can muster or sometimes at least more or less in tune  merely avoiding  disaster and not knowing 

originally had planned on playing w band Salvation Day but life got in the way 

i guess more gospel than psycho onna sunday witch calls for a 2nd hallelujah -anyway 

[walrussyy]

cold and windy dark and stormy let me float your way please dont ignore me what you girls really needs a soft fuzzy man (an ambient man) a trick of the light to love you tonight you dont understand theres nothing quite like a soft fuzzy man cant you see me why cant you see me im all around all cold and dreamy what you girls really needs a soft fuzzy man (a wisp of smoke man) to waft over you and cloud up your view so show me your hands and wave them right through a soft fuzzy man although I have no arms to hold you in a human passion burns within me I NEED TO FEEL LIKE I EXIST so PLEASE BABY PLEASE BABY step into the mist dont be nervous no dont be nervous im not like other guys who have a surface what you girls really needs a soft fuzzy man (an atmospheric man) a shimmering puff of indistinct love whats better than the vague embrace of a soft fuzzy man who seeps through your thoughts who makes you see spots who blows through the air who plays with your hair i know it sounds crazy but once you go hazy youll understand im your soft fuzzy man

[dustedmagazine]

Infinite River — Prequel (Birdman)

Prequel by Infinite River

The phrase “there must be something in the water” describes an inexplicable concentration of likeminded individuals in a geographic region. In the case of the Detroit River, unfortunately that “something” is pollution. Yet there is a bounty of beauty that flows from this toxic tributary. The sonic rivulets run deep and wide. From Motown, proto-punk and techno to space rock, noise and garage, Detroit’s musical legacy is cast in rust-flecked steel, reverberating in time with the echoes of the Motor City’s now-dormant assembly lines. The Detroit River is filled with artistic splendor. 

Infinite River is bathed in Detroit’s decades-long sonic glow. The band comprises stalwart members of three separate long-tenured scenes but maintains a sound that lies somewhere at the center of them all, like a mystical eye within a pyramid. The three musicians – Warren Defever (His Name is Alive), Gretchen Gonzales Davidson (Slumber Party, Universal Indians) and Joey Mazzola (Detroit Cobras, Sponge) – want to engage in a delightful sort of psyops. They’re out to hypnotize with sound, and Prequel is their first salvo of soothing tone.

Infinite River arose from the stir-craziness of lockdown. The three friends jammed out their frustrations with two guitars over a powdery mountain of drone that Defever crafted with synths and tanpura. They enlisted a fourth compatriot – drummer Steven Nistor – to round out their sound with a steady pulse and washes of cymbals. His efforts complete the picture: a dreamy photograph in muted colors that portrays a scene of blissful contemplation. Prequel’s six unnamed sections flow into each other effortlessly. Davidson and Mazzola improvise unhurriedly, their guitars entwined in delicate waves of gossamer. Imagine Windy & Carl’s Consciousness blended into Mountains’ Choral, but with melody and pulse as the primary motivator. 

Prequel finds the members of Infinite River acting as a unit without a leader. They’re a small herd moving in unison, and they cover a considerable amount of territory. Psychedelia, ambient, and folk are all touchstones that bear influence on their oeuvre. To complete the picture, each member brings their own personality to the party, adding a uniquely intoxicating element to spike the brew. Defever distills his avant-pop instincts to create fog banks of drone. Davidson and Mazzola strip guitar noise down into its component parts and layer them with melody. Nistor leverages his session drummer instincts to add creative percussion elements that move with the overall direction of the music. 

The name of this album leads us to believe that there’s more to come from Infinite River, which is encouraging. Their brand of drift is especially soothing and sublime; given the seemingly endless crises going on these days, we could use an injection of serenity in our lives. Infinite River is the perfect prescription for the current zeitgeist. 

Bryon Hayes

[curbie]

Today I found a nice place to study after my abnormal psych class, and it seemed like all the conditions were perfect! It was pretty cloudy, which I like because it’s not *too* hot, but it’s hot enough so that I feel comfortable cuz I get cold kinda easily. It also wasn’t windy at all, and there was a cool waterfall / fountain that produced some nice ambient sound. I don’t really like studying in silence, so that extra bit of stimulation is nice. When it’s silent, I usually fill that absent stimulation with phone time, which definitely doesn’t help at all with my studying lol.

While the picture I took shows a textbook for a different class, I was actually studying for my cognitive processes class. I definitely need the extra help from the textbook for that class, as the guy that lectures for this class speaks way too fast for me :/. I might go to his office hours to see if I can pass the exam just by reading the textbook LOL

When I got home, I hopped on a call to discuss some things regarding the lab I’m in. It heavily centers around coding for different variables, which is pretty easy work that can keep me busy when I’m bored. There’s a lot of data to code, though, so I’m going to be in for the long haul until I get it done.

Overall, today was a productive day! I can’t say that for every day, and that’s okay. Some days are fine being mental health days where I do very minimal, if any, studying. The last thing I want to do is burn myself out so early on in the semester.

[roofingserviceuk]

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[gatesofhypnos]

GoH-720: Awakshidar - A Young Woman Walks Into The Sea

An excellent album filled with cold, windy and dreamy dark ambient. Nearly forty minutes of trippy sounds with a spiritual concept.

[gertlushgaming]

Cities: Skylines II Review (Steam)

For this Cities: Skylines II Review, we raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Cities: Skylines II Review Pros:

- Decent graphics. - 56.31GB Download size. - Steam achievements. - Full controller support. - Uses the Paradox Launcher. - Graphics settings - show all resolutions, resolution, display mode, v-sync, game cursor mode, depth of field mode, global graphics preset, dynamic resolution scaling quality, anti-aliasing, clouds quality, fog quality, volumetrics quality, ambient occlusion, global illumination, reflections, depth of field quality, motion blur, shadow quality, terrain quality, water quality, level of detail, animation quality, and texture quality. - Can rebind controls for both keyboard and mouse and the controller. - Enable radio - on/off. - Interface settings - ui style (default/bright blue/dark gray orange), ui transparency, text scaling, highlight unlocked, chirpier sounds, button styles (auto detect/Xbox/PlayStation), time format, temperature unit, and other units. - City-building gameplay. - Gameplay settings - edge scrolling, day/night visuals, start paused and show/reset tutorials. - Performance options - frame rate, balance, and simulation speed. - Autosave can be turned on and off and you set how many autosave slots you use and how often it saves. - Ten starting locations - Archipelago Haven, Barrier Island, Great Highlands, Lakeland, Mountain Village, River Delta, Sweeping Plains, Twin Mountain, Waterway Pass, and Windy Fjords. Each has different themes, climate, and natural resources. - Map setup options - name, theme (European/North American), left-hand traffic, natural disasters, unlock all, unlimited money. - Tutorial options - continue, restart, and disable. - If a setting disables achievements the game tells you. - To help break you in the game gives you a checklist of basic tasks. - Button icons show on menus. - A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control. - Three game speeds and a pause time button. - The road laying is fast and simple with a drag and drop style mechanic, before you lay it down the game tells you of any terrain rises, length, cost, etc. - Bulldoze lets you select chunks of road or buildings to get rid of. - The radio is on the Hud so you can change the volume and station quickly. - There is a radio ad on and off option. - If you have played the game before you can skip a fair amount of tutorials. - Zones can be fully edited and customized from the them of them to the shapes and sizes, for example, housing can be single or family-based houses. - Paint is where you basically put a big chunk of a zone or structure in place. - You can apply to rezone the placed zones. (change the zone type). - Electricity is very important and you have to build the power stations and connect buildings together so they can be built and function. - The map colors change to help see what is connected, what is needed, or what you have too much of. - You can zoom right out or up really close to the point where you see people and cars moving. - Anything and everything you can place is adjustable like power lines can be adjusted all the way down to the hang height of the cables. - Earn exp as you place things. - Save and load when you want. - It has a lot of depth and variety. - You can and are encouraged to play the game how you want. - It's a very addictive game and is a real-time sink. Cities: Skylines II Review Cons: - A lot of reading. - There is an ad on and off option. - The controls are fine but they do take a while to get used to, I mean there is a lot going on and menus usually require button press combos etc. - It's all very daunting at first. - The game doesn't offer any pre-built scenarios. - No mod support. - Had text overlap a few times. - At times the character models looked Blocky and ugly. - Performance is a bit up and down especially when dealing with big cities. - No multiplayer modes. (more a FYI) - I still to this day have a few issues with the mechanics and the ins and outs of how some things work mostly because I feel the game doesn't explain or do a good job of helping you learn. Related Post:  Alterium Shift Preview (Steam Early Access)  Cities: Skylines II: Official website. Developer: Colossal Order Ltd Publisher: Paradox Interactive Store Links - Steam Read the full article

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Finalized and Edited Narrative with Camera Angles

The camera moves slowly, showing a glimpse of a perfect blue sky, quite serene and calm. As the camera pans, capturing the expanse of the calm horizon with still clouds, the scene seems almost too real, too tranquil to be true. Sounds of nature could be heard in the distance, setting an ambient and peaceful mood.

Yet, as the camera gets closer, we see a figure of a girl, her back turned to us. She turns around and looks up a bit, covering her eyes for a moment from the sun rays, tinted with a slight yellow hue, it radiates a slight magical glow and a feeling of warmth and peace but at the same time seems unusually bright.

These bright sun rays illuminate a side of the empty wall, further making it seem like she's outdoors with the slight shadow casting beneath her as she moves. But soon, the sun rays fades away.

The camera moves to a side shot and the girl starts to paint. The camera moves again to a medium shot from behind as she paints nimble and fluid brushstrokes in a shade of blue, giving a bit of life to the empty wall.

Moving closer, to an over the shoulder shot, she paints calmly and the camera slowly shifts to a wide shot showing her standing on a step ladder and as if someone is recording her every movement from afar as well.

The camera shifts to a side shot, showing her holding a white paint palette. A closeup pov shot reveals that it's splattered with various tones of blue paint and a noticeable gold branding label called "Artist's Pal"

An extreme close up shot of the paintbrush gliding across the wall, shows the intricate brush strokes adding more artistic detail to this empty wall, the camera carefully taking in all the slow movements in a way that's very calming.

The camera shifts again, as she paints in a peaceful motion. She tries to fix her hair away from her face and amidst this calm moment, a gasp escapes her lips. The tranquil moment shatters as the paintbrush slips from her hand, and we hear a soft splash - as if the brush fell into water.

The sound of the splash resonates for a second, rippling through the serene atmosphere. The screen goes black and suddenly, a scene of a destructive storm fills the screen for about two seconds like a flashback, the weather dark and windy with sounds of rain echoing all over as the strong waves of the ocean splashes around in contrast to the calm scene before. A bolt of lightning echoes loudly in the distance and the camera cuts.

Abruptly, the dream like state ends and the scene changes. The terrifying sounds of the storm and lightning echoes in Truman's mind for a second and he rubs his eyes. Letting out a sigh, he stares at his reflection in the mirror and starts to talk to himself.