CURRENT MISSION

Asking questions and finding answers

ABOUT ME

Serhii — programmer, electronic music producer, visual artist, meditation explorer. I like absurdist and surreal humor, stend-up comedy and Monthy Python.

Luba — illustrator, freelancer, tennis player and coach. Curious and fragile girl with good taste in art.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people and share ideas.

Interests

Different music, photography, neurobiology, science, buddhism, psychedelics, art.
Serhii's photos: https://instagram.com/vacuum/
Serhii's music: https://soundcloud.com/vacuum-n/tracks
https://www.instagram.com/from.vacuum/
https://album.link/qKtKSws6wBkF0
Luba's works: https://www.instagram.com/lorafore https://www.behance.net/lorafore0a73

• arts
• photography
• meditation
• music
• buddhist
• animation
• freelancing
• science
• software
• mountains
• mountain biking
• biking
• visual art

Music, Movies, and Books

You can see my music tastes on http://www.last.fm/user/vacuum_hack
I like to watch some independent, arthouse films.
One of my favourite: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oldboy, Wrong Cops, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver

Books that I've recently read:
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter :clap:
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universe by David Deutsch
The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander Shulgin
TIHKAL: by Alexander Shulgin
True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise by Terence McKenna
Blindsight by Peter Watts
LSD, my problem child by Albert Hofmann
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

At some point of this jouney, I realized that our everyday reality is merely an illusion, construct of neural networks, same with the concept of an I and any other concepts that construct our cultural perception of the world around us and ourselves.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Info about Lviv, places to walk, eat, drink, listen some undeground music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine, United States