Over the course of the next 10 years I’d like to learn how to think about 2 unrelated things simultaneously and with equal concentration. The catch is the equal concentration bit. It isn’t too hard to wonder lightly about subject ‘a’ while focusing more on subject ‘b’ at the same time. Focusing equally and simultaneously…
When I wake up I’m usually lucky enough to remember at least some of the scenes from my nightly, epic, random, morphing dreams. And every now and then it turns out that I have a dream that is influenced by something I had been thinking about the day before. What’s interesting to me is that…
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…
If I find myself not remembering what I had been thinking about, but aware that it was something important, I can usually get back to where I was by thinking about the “root” thought (i.e. the thought that led to another thought which led to another and another until reaching the one I had been…
My longest held theory on life is this: I’m the sole subject of some fuckt experiment where the situations I am put in each day, the people who speak in my vicinity, all this happens so that the people running the experiment can take notes on my reaction. Some assumptions I have with regard to…
I wonder if my thoughts are really my own. I’m thinking they might be put together by artificial means and then fed into my brain through some kind of one-way telepathy I’m not aware of. If the latter is the case, it’s peculiar that this is one of the thoughts I’m being made to think….