Improv has Messed with my Mind! How about you?

[rlarsen]

Every time I knock on someone's door, I simultaneously stomp my foot.

 

[DanAbrams]

I frequently do object work when I'm bored, walking down the street or whatever, I'll squeeze a mimed stress ball or bounce it on walls I pass.

I observed a conversation the other day in which one person would not stop talking and I very nearly rolled my finger and said edit. I also frequently find myself wanting to tag into conversations.

 

[rixtyseven]

Improv should bring out who you actually are, not the character you play at parties. I pretty much abandoned two huge groups of friends because I'd rather hang out with my improv troupe, because they know me so much better.

I could not agree with this more.

 

[Dave B]

I will often walk down the street, while loudly saying initiation lines to myself. I usually go through at least three or four full sentences before I realize I'm in public and people could probably hear me.

 

[Shaund]

nm

 

[HairballofDoom]

I've been having odd philosophical conversations with a friend and started putting improv sayings into the argument. Things like, there are no mistakes, and don't think (react). Totally confused and annoyed the girl.

 

[mikelibrarian]

Whenever I hear the Beastie Boys now I think of them as standing in a circle at the Magnet Theater preparing for an Improv show.

 

[CrazyRob]

I often tell telemarkers to freeze and make a different choice a few seconds in. Then I ask them to define what the objective is for them in this phone call. That's when they usually hang up.

 

[mikelibrarian]

I had a dream the other day where I was in a play but hadn't rehearsed and didn't know anything about my character. Standard anxiety dream stuff. However, the twist was that it was an unscripted play and I figured that my director would have cast me in a role that I would be a natural fit for and proceeded without a hitch.

Take that anxiety dream!

 

[RobBritt]

my kids think I am even odder than I used to be, and that's saying something. I am also getting more and more obsessed with message boards and online videos of improv
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[mikelibrarian]

A patron asked for a book with the word improve in its title. I automatically typed in improv instead.

 

[darcy]

I let other peoples' emotions change me.
When I'm listening, I'm not waiting to talk.

 

[mikelibrarian]

Discovering that I am no longer strong enough to carry an audience member fully across a stage has set me to musing about my mortality.

 

[proofred]

I'll Yes, and... people in the oddest situations. It REALLY throws them off. Like if someone is angry with me I'll just say "Yes, you are right to be angry with me." They don't know what to do after that.

Todd Rice
ProofRed
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Mind Messed

 

[amn]

Playing game in real life is apparently called enabling and is generally frowned upon.

 

[lilymaebelle]

When meeting someone new, I have to stop myself from saying, "So, what's your deal?"

 

[Styrofoam]

I tend to play characters, even for brief periods of time when someone tells a joke or insults someone... I think I did this a little before I started improving... but its definitely something I do a lot more now. I also yes-and everything... like my friend who said Ben Franklin invented electricity.. i just yes-anded him... he was looking for an argument.

 

[burns1]

Wow, Mullaney, over reacting much?

Shutting down the whole IRC and making ME explain to everyone that you'd done it because MY improv was so bad that you were too ashamed to have me assciated with the website?

All I'd done was open a door I'd already opened. You, my friend, have a problem.

Oh...wait...that didn't happen? I dreamt it last night you say?

Yeah, improv has messed with my mind.

 

[mikelibrarian]

A facebook friend wrote that she was Spoilin her dog and I first thought it was a reference to Viola Spolin.

 

[mikelibrarian]

I was disappointed that zup is not a legal word in Lexulous. This may belong in a Lexulous has messed with my mind thread.