On my recent airport adventure I was taken hostage by my imagination during the flight from St. paul to Fairbanks. I was afraid of the possibility I had booked myself for flights until my death, living airport/airplane passenger life for the rest of my days. I was worried about how it would feel to arrive…
1. Dreams are as real to us while we’re dreaming as “reality” is in our waking state. When we’re aware that we’re dreaming, lucid dreaming, we can manipulate dictate events in our dreams. It shouldn’t be too far of a stretch to believe that we can experience “lucid wakefulness”. 2. When you are solving a…
Inserting ‘bye,’ ‘talk to you later,’ ‘later,’ and other conversation closing formalities at the end of an answering machine message is an awkward thing to do because the person being addressed isn’t there to reply likewise. And message leavers know this, but they persist with closing formalities, because even though it’s awkward, closing with the…
I think blind people on city streets are incredible. It never ceases to amaze me how they know which bus to get on, which stop to get off. I’ll bet their visualization of the city in their heads is far more interesting than what we see. Or, if they’ve been blind their whole lives, they…
I dislike walking in front of someone who is walking to the same place I am. I dislike walking behind someone who is walking to the same place I am. Worst of all is walking behind a cigarette smoker. Pipe tobacco is much better. I would prefer walking behind a pipe smoker than a non-smoker….
It used to be that when you saw people talking alone, you knew right away that they were interesting people. When this happens now, it’s far more likely that the person is talking into a cell phone or headset. The ease of pinpointing skewed reality processors is lost. I trust they will develop other methods…
I remember being about 10 years old and trying to think as far into the past as I could. I could get almost back to being in the uterus, but then I would get dizzy. I can’t do that anymore, it’s too far in the past.
When our bodies fall apart, this is a safety feature. Ripe people feeling sick at all hours, cerebral palsy, stroke, failing ears/eyes, these are symptoms leading to loss of death fear. If living is painful and dull, most of us will wish to die. Physical decay is nature’s way of killing death fear. Even though…
In all the landscaped grass areas on campus there are these tiny signs stuck into the ground resembling the kinds of flower identification cards you would expect to find in a greenhouse. Except these signs are bright yellow with black ink printed: CAUTION Pesticide Application Keep Off. There is also a diagram (in the style…
Today rained. There were lots of umbrellas out. Umbrellas give me a kick. I think they’re nice. It’s as if they were extracted from a long lost romantic period in history and deposited at the feet of our cell phone technobabble society. spiral dial phones–>touch tone–>cordless. vinyl–>cassette–>cd and yet umbrellas have stood the test of…