And to you, sir

Let's see how long I can keep this up, eh?

The aptly named davesplat.blogspot (try saying it fast, not easy) is responsible for getting me on here. Apparently dave types as he thinks, whatever it happens to be, and posts it without any filtration. brain spam, skipping thoughts, dave splat.


So I figured I'd give it a shot. You know, apparently if you do something like this all the time, even in a journal or something, writing stream of consciousness is supposed to be good for creativity. A kind of exercise for the right side of your brain. That hemisphere of your brain thinks more holistically than the left side. The left side is more quantitative and analytical.

Meditating is supposed to be great for you too. I think davesplat said something about starting up the habit. Apparently it just makes you very aware of what some people call "here-now". Basically living in the moment in every sense of the phrase. It's tough to do that sometimes when I'm just going through life and almost reacting subconciously. Every now and then I become completely aware, but its usually when things are quiet or when I'm looking at something amazing.

Meditating brings you there and allows you to stay there for longer, apparently. I'll have to try it.

Hypnosis is very neat too.

This is what confuses me, though. They say driving is a state of hypnosis. Alright. They say watching a movie is a state of hypnosis... eh, I'm not sure I completely agree with that one. I assume they (no, I don't know who 'they' are) mean to say something like, when you watch a movie... you become persuaded into letting your conciousness fall entirely into a particular activity or object (a movie, in this case) and you sort of leave your body in a way. That is to say, you become less aware of your physical body and surroundings.


... so what are you focusing on when someone 'hypnotizes' you? I doubt the hypnotist's watch is really that interesting. There has to be somehting else going on. I've heard that a hypnotist only 'convinces' you and that you want to do the things in the first place. I have no problem agreeing with that one, it seems logical, but it seems different than what is happening when you watch a movie.

And with driving, that makes perfect sense. How often do you *really* think about what your hands and feet are doing when you drive a car. Or when you play halo or something? Your body moves and yet you exist somewhere else entirely seperate from your body. You become unaware of your body's actions. Whats the difference if your bodys actions happen to be moving two plastic sticks around and pressing buttons or acting like a chicken?

The thing that gets me is... where is your mind existing when you are being hypnotized?? Very neat. very neat indeed.

Probably cooler than magicians/illusionists. Not to say that that stuff isnt equally or more impressive, but just that--as I dont really believe in magic, (or at least.. not that david blaine has the ability to harness it)--its really just creative engineering and sleight of hand. i'm impressed by an illusionists awesome ability to be a creative pickpocketer. A rogue, even. They get incredibly ill on devising awesome ways to trick people into being so sure something happened in a particular way.


Cool, but not as perplexing as hypnotism.

Alright, Thats enough stream from this conciousness.
Cheers to davesplat.blogspot
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chedder