Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Butters]

I recently learned an important life lesson that I wish to share with everyone.

When a loved one tells you ‘For god’s sake get an eye test’ don’t leave it ten years, and in that time wonder why the joy of reading since evades you.

Just do it. Take the test, get corrections, see again.

 

[KimMH]

^I hope you’ve not suffered any permanent damage and that your issues are treatable.

Nothing's more depressing than when you feel yourself forgetting a really good dream as soon as you wake up from it.

I’ve solved all the major problems of the world so many times only to forget my own genius upon awakening!

 

[Discofan]

I think dreams are not meant to be remembered. They're not stored in permanent memory so unless we think of them immediately after waking up, they just dissolve like an aspirin tablet... Dreams, IMO, are just side-effects of the conversion of short-term memories into long-term memories. The reason why they seem bizarre is that memory is stored by word/concept/image association. A song reminds you of an event which reminds you of a person...etc... And that's the process that you're witnessing. Contrary to popular opinion and obsolete psychiatry, they are not messages send to us by our unconscious. It wouldn't be very efficient for one thing, given that we don't remember them most of the time. I could talk about this for hours but I think you get the gist of it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I don’t think dreams are our subconscious directly talking to us, but how they manifest is related to what ideas and feelings are linked together in our kinds which could be described as “Subconscious”.

My understanding is dreams are a byproduct of the process to clean and reset our active thought process. In the process neurons get activated relating to images, sounds, people and feelings, then the dream is our minds trying to make sense of them and tell a story. Which neurons get activated together and how they we interpret them into a story cam relate to things we aren’t consciously aware of.

 

[Discofan]

How about a quote from the Foundations?

"The most hopelessly stupid man is he that is not aware he is wise."

 

[Delta Vega]

Tomorrow I'm going to start recording songs again at home
My depression has had the best of me for three months and I lost inspiration, and motivation
Tomorrow I have decided to fight back

 

[rhubarbodendron]

How about a quote from the Foundations?
"The most hopelessly stupid man is he that is not aware he is wise."

The author of that quote apparently didn't know the current US President, who, as we all know (since he keeps telling us on Twitter), is fully aware of his unique genius.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Personification.....

I bought a new phone, my old one wouldnt charge anymore.
But i got the old one from one of my sons(suns) so i was reluctant to just throw it in the garbage.
Anyway, that phone should be dead, but for over a week now, it has been starting itself up (on time)
and play the alarm that get me up in the morning.
The battery got like 0% power so cant play the full alarm anymore, but i can here it turning "him self" on
by the sound of the vibration. Im like " c'mon champ!.... you can do it!!" and every now and then it
can play a few notes.... what a fighter...

 

[Marynator]

My grandmother died suddenly on Sunday morning. My aunt found her on her kitchen floor. She was 85 years old.

I'm pretty shaken up, I was close with my grandmother. I used to live with her, and she helped me move to the United States. I seriously thought she was going to live another twenty years, she was so active and spunky. I've been going back and forth between periods of shock and sadness.

I'll be going to her funeral in Georgia this weekend, I hope being able to say goodbye properly will help. I still don't know what I'm going to do though, this is just so unreal for me.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

^I'm very sorry. The way it sounds, she was at least able to enjoy life till the end, maybe you can find solace in that.

 

[auntiehill]

I'm sorry for your loss, @Marynator . It sounds like she had a long, healthy life and had a loving family. It's never easy to lose someone, regardless of their age, but knowing they had a full life can sometimes help assuage the grief .

 

[Discofan]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Butters]

Personification.....

I bought a new phone, my old one wouldnt charge anymore.
But i got the old one from one of my sons(suns) so i was reluctant to just throw it in the garbage.
Anyway, that phone should be dead, but for over a week now, it has been starting itself up (on time)
and play the alarm that get me up in the morning.
The battery got like 0% power so cant play the full alarm anymore, but i can here it turning "him self" on
by the sound of the vibration. Im like " c'mon champ!.... you can do it!!" and every now and then it
can play a few notes.... what a fighter...

Sorry to hear this.

 

[Butters]

I’ve not been posting much lately. One thing or another. It’s not much fun for me at the moment, and I’ve had an absolute bastard of a day, but, at the very least, I know that the next book will write itself.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I’ve not been posting much lately. One thing or another. It’s not much fun for me at the moment, and I’ve had an absolute bastard of a day, but, at the very least, I know that the next book will write itself.

I hope tomorrow is better.

 

[Butters]

I hope tomorrow is better.

Thanks. I know that it won’t be, but that’s better than being disappointed. It’s a first world problem really, but it’s still tough.

 

[Worf factor9]

I'm pretty shaken up, I was close with my grandmother. I used to live with her, and she helped me move to the United States. I seriously thought she was going to live another twenty years, she was so active and spunky. I've been going back and forth between periods of shock and sadness.

I am so sorry for your loss. Both of mine went in the early 1980's and I was a pallbearer for both. I was also shaken and bereaved.

In the years since, I have always found a bit of solace when I prepare one of their family recipes that they handed down. It always makes me smile, and I will swear that they are whispering to me what I got wrong ... ; ).

 

[Velocity]

So, if a Time Lord can choose their next incarnation, why would they ever want an old appearance? I'd choose an appearance of about 26 or so. After all, youth is wasted on the young. I'd rather appear young but have the memories of everything learned plus the agility, flexibility, and strength of youth.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

@Marynator I am so sorry to hear this But at least it went very quickly and she didn't have to suffer.
My grandma died of a series of strokes and heartattacks that gradually damaged her brain. It took her a decade to die and in the end it was so terrible - she had gone completely insane and that was scary to watch for a teenager - that it came as a relief to me when I learned she had died, even though before her illness she was the person I loved most.
At least you got spared such a trauma and can always remember your grandma as a warmhearted, lively, intelligent person. I am aware that this is next to no comfort now, but in a few years you might perhaps feel as I do.

 

[XCV330]

I am very sorry to hear this Marynator.