Well, that does sound convenient. Do you remember any particular store you got it at? I guess if I know it exists I’ll find it eventually but I’m pretty bad at finding things in grocery stores at the best of times.
Well, that does sound convenient. Do you remember any particular store you got it at? I guess if I know it exists I’ll find it eventually but I’m pretty bad at finding things in grocery stores at the best of times.
The original automated import used GMT timestamps, and I’ve been keeping to that. But it slows me down having to run every post through my brain’s timezone translation algorithm, and it’s probably not that important. I’m going to start using my native Eastern, so I can just directly copy the timestamp indicated in the tumblr-utils version.
I’m leaving this note in case a future self decides it’s worth standardising the timestamps, so she’ll know this was the point of changeover.
(For the record, I actually wrote this at 5:09 PM on February 11th: I just backdated it so it would be located between the last GMT post and the first EST post.)
@banana-pie-gaige reminded me of an experiment I’ve been wanting to run.
Loose conjecture: I have a book of sleeping tips that suggests that people close their eyes and slowly trace the outside ridges of the United States to trick the brain into starting REM. REM, or dreaming sleep, is often a period where people can be lightly suggestible- for example, you can talk to dreaming people and sometimes influence what happens in their dreams. There’s also the eye flutter that some subjects have when they go under and the eye movements people tend to have when you ask them to imagine a visual image when hypnotized- these may or may not be REM related (or require hypnosis at all).
Hypothesis: You can trigger tranceyness by having someone close their eyes and move them around in a circular way because this mirrors REM. Mirroring REM triggers a person’s mind to start dreaming which increases suggestibility.
Why this is probably bullshit: REM eye movements often look different than someone tracing the borders of the Unites States. People usually go through other sleep stages before getting into REM- you usually only jump in to REM when you’re sleep deprived. (My one time dreaming while hypnotized- which was awesome- was when I was up late and likely sleep deprived.) Moving eyes in a REM-ish way wouldn’t necessarily trigger REM or sleep or tranceyness or anything in particular. If this did put people to sleep or even made them dream,. this wouldn’t necessarily equal a useful hypnotic state. But what if it did?
That would be cool, huh?
Tumblr peeps- this is what I’d you to do:
Would you kindly:
1. Set an alarm for 6 minutes.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Relax. If you know how, let yourself sink into a light trancey/meditative state.
4. Imagine you can see the continental USA land formation. Gently and comfortable trace around the edges with your eyes, starting at the top right hand side with Maine. Don’t try and think or stop thinking- thoughts can just happen all by themselves. You can just lazily notice anything that happens.If nothing much happens, just let yourself enjoy the break.
5. Write me feedback about what, if anything, happened. It’s OK to tell me nothing really happened- that’s useful information!
I’ll tell you guys if we collectively discover something cool. :)
Also- please let me know if you have ideas or if this is a thing you solved in 3rd grade.
So- this was basically an exploratory mission to see what would happen if people faked REM-ish eye movements while conscious. The answer, unfortunately, was nothing consistently. @friedcherryblossomprincess had the most interesting results with some involuntary eye movements and better sleep that night, but her already being sleep deprived was a huge confounding factor. Other reactions ranged from mildly trancey arm movements to general annoyance. :)~
As a hypnotist, I am often not brave enough about trying new things. I have a million theories and ideas but tend to stick to the tried and true because I worry about what will happen if things don’t work. I already don’t fit most people’s hypnotist profile (female, quieter, mousy, not particularly eloquent) so I sometimes give myself less leeway to be creative or different. I’m explaining this because I really want the people who participated to know how cool it was for me to be able to test out something potentially harebrained in a less risky way. This is something I would have never tried out face to face. I’m so thankful to you guys for giving me a chance to explore!
#(February 2016) #(still a *little* embarrassed about having misunderstood but oh well) #((if you compare the version of the OP in this post and the version in the WordPress copy you can see)) #((that she later edited the bit about tracing to be less ambiguous)) #conversational aglets #sexuality and lack thereof
Me: time to deal with this in a Positive and Healthy manner
Me: *stuffs myself so full of mashed potatoes there is no room for the emotions anymore*
Mashed potatoes are the Platonic ideal of childhood-nostalgia comfort food. I actually feel nostalgic when I eat them even though I never ate mashed potatoes growing up.
The only time I ever really badly insulted a person who was being nice to me, was when they served me spectacularly bad tasting instant mashed potatoes.
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#(February 2016) #(huh I don’t remember seeing this branch) #conversational aglets #food #disordered eating
Me: time to deal with this in a Positive and Healthy manner
Me: *stuffs myself so full of mashed potatoes there is no room for the emotions anymore*
Mashed potatoes are the Platonic ideal of childhood-nostalgia comfort food. I actually feel nostalgic when I eat them even though I never ate mashed potatoes growing up.
As president, my first executive order will be to make it a felony to use popular messaging programs’ notification chimes in techno songs.
I suppose that might reduce the number of incidents of mistaking music for being called (though I have never encountered your specific variation of the problem myself), but your brain would still find something to latch onto sometimes. There’s a bit in the background of a Florence and the Machine song that coincidentally resembles the sound of my mother distantly calling my name. It’s the exact right amount of distant for her being in her bedroom and me being in the living room wearing earbuds. (Guess what the most common circumstances are for me listening to that song.)
Yep, there’s an MCR song that has something almost identical for me–a point that sounds like my name being called from downstairs faintly, with just a hint of annoyance in the tone.
It doesn’t even that that much for me to hear my name being called: just street noises will sometimes do it.
My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).
Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”
Ice Demons wielding weapons made of frozen mercury. Spearheads that break off & melt inside the target. Swords that leave tiny bits of melted mercury inside the wound (the swords re-freeze to razor sharpness while in the ice demon’s claws).
Item: blades, spears, and/or arrowheads made of mercury frozen by Ice Magic; can only be used by one with Ice Magic, but deliver whatever damage the weapon type would normally make plus equal amounts of Cold and 1d8 Poison. Once the wound has been delivered, it continues to deliver 1d8 Poison until the mercury has been removed by healing magic, Wish, &c.
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#demons #story ideas I will never write #poison cw
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