STRAY CLOUDS IN MY HEAD

There are so many stray thoughts in my head today! I want to share the interesting ones :)

You know literary devices, right? Well, have you heard of one for abuse? That's right. Bdelygmia is a literary device for abusing in poetic language. Go google it!

I like words, they all seem to be onomatopoetic (I know, that's not a real word). Have you ever thought about how you picture words? Happy, sad, jealous, angry, hopeful, sarcastic. What do you see/feel when you read these words? I see that expression on a face when I read the word. 'Sad', now those three letters seem to me to be making a 'sad' expression. It's just how I picture it. Some people might be visualizing it another way. How do you see it?

You know where i got this idea from? Feynman (If you haven't heard of him, get ON IT! A brilliant guy. You must get your hands on the book, 'Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman'). I watched an interview of him once on Youtube, in which he was describing the techniques (which differs from person-to-person) through which we COUNT. He asked his friend to count in his head and read at the same time, and then count in his head and talk at the same time. He could do only one. If he counted using pictures of numbers in his head, he wouldn't be able to read because of the visual-visual interference. If he counted by saying the numbers in his head, he wouldn't be able to talk while counting.

I think I'm portraying this in a messy way, but don't you think this is interesting?

Talking of interesting, have you heard of Lucid Dreaming? It is one of the most interesting things I have ever come across. I will be getting on it as soon as I find the time.

So, lucid dreams are this fantastic phenomenon in which WHILE you are in a dream, you realize that it is, in fact, a dream, and the real you isn't swashbuckling or running from monsters (or whatever it is you were doing in that dream) but is safely asleep in bed. Once you realize this, you will be able to control your dream and even make it turn in the direction you want. Have you always wanted to fly? Now you can! (Virtually).

It's also pretty useful for getting over fears, once you master inducing lucid dreams and have complete control over the dream. Most people have lucid-dreamed at least once. But it takes effort and persistence to gain mastery. There are many techniques to induce them. If you want to know more, go to dreamviews.com.  

And, to make it sound cooler, people who lucid dream have a title of their own- they are called Aneironauts.

Talking of which, haven't you ever wondered what stuff dreams are made of? If you Wiki this, you will find a LOT of interesting things. Like, there are five stages of sleep, the last is REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement), and it is mostly only in this stage that you dream. Now, dreams are essentially made of thoughts, which include memories and sensory descriptions. And what are thoughts? Just neurons! Like little bundles of flickers of thoughts. One theory of dreams (there are so many to explain away dreams) says that when you sleep, neurons aren't very organized or coherent. They bump into each other and create little eddy thoughts which come together to form dreams. I don't know whether this is accurate, but I picture it just like bundles of moisture bumping and merging into each other creating clouds.

That's why you can dream of pink hippopotamuses dancing, though you would never think of it consciously.

Plus, you dream of recent things more, right? This is because the freely floating neuron-dream-components will float off recent memories; old memories tend to fade, getting locked up in some deep corner of the brain.

Oh, and while we're on it, it's not at all true that dreams come only in black-and-white. They DO come in color; you CAN experience all five senses while in a dream.


I have to go now, but be sure to look it all up! It's VERY interesting, yes? :)