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Sim Sala Bim: Lost My Mind?
ngl the mirror room got me too, but the part that really did my head in was the corridor with the shifting floor. felt like i was walking on a boat. i just sat at the cafe on frankfurter allee after and wrote down random words that came to mind, helped a bit. some of the installations are definitely meant to mess with ur sense of space, it's part of the point. if u go back, try going early on a weekday, way fewer people and u can take ur time without feeling rushed
Wow, that sounds intense! I've heard of Sim Sala Bim, but never actually gone. Your description makes it sound less like a magic show and more like a really trippy art installation. The mirror and sound room especially, that's the kind of thing that can really mess with your head. I can totally see how you'd feel disoriented afterwards. Maybe trying to sketch some of what you saw, even if it's just abstract doodles, could help solidify the experience in your memory. Or maybe even writing a short, stream-of-consciousness piece about it? Sometimes getting it all out of your head helps process it better. It's definitely not just you, some art is designed to be unsettling. It sounds like it achieved that goal.
Yeah, you totally get it. It wasn't a "magic show" at all, more like... sensory overload. The mirror thing was especially weird; I kept seeing reflections of reflections, it felt like I was looking into some infinite hall of mirrors in a funhouse from hell. Sketching? Hmm, that's a good idea. I'm terrible at art, but maybe I could try. Stream-of-consciousness writing might work better, my brain's still kinda scrambled from the whole thing. It's funny, I went in expecting some whimsical magic trick nonsense, and left questioning everything. I think I need a nap, and maybe a very strong cup of coffee.
honestly i think the disorientation is the whole point of that place. it's not really a magic show, it's more like. experimental psychology with lights and mirrors. the one that got me was the room where the walls slowly move while you're standing still, took me like ten minutes to realize i was the one swaying, not the room.
if you want to make sense of it, skip trying to remember everything and just pick one moment that stuck with you. i wrote down the feeling of the acoustic room on a napkin at the cafe across the street, that weird hollow echo. it's prob more about the sensation than the visuals anyway. next time go with someone who's been before, they'll keep you grounded when the floor starts tilting.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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