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Friday, February 27, 2004 Despite my previous claims of innate lameness, I now embrace blogging, although I still detest treating this venue as a diary. But of course, no one is forcing me to read that drivle. People need to share information or life becomes static, so if a method works without causing significant harm, then rock on. Give me a week and I'll probably decide this doesn't work. Maybe two, life's been busy, even though I seem to be dreaming more than ever. Probably my mind jumping to REM sleep during the few hours I allow myself to sleep everyday. Speaking of dreams, I seem to remember reading that James Watson (of Watson and Crick) proposed the notion that dreams were nothing more than a method of disposing unwanted or unnecessary thoughts. During sleep, in particular deep sleep, he suggests the mind forms loose and random associations of thoughts into dreams so that they may be forgotten or used up. This is comparable to burning off fuel in an engine, only no exhaust is expelled as proof of the combustion. Does this seem to be a load of crap to anyone else? It seems far more logical that dreams are a function of your psyche dealing with those thoughts and issues at hand in your life and not some sort of brain spring cleaning. Although, if examined in light of nightmares, perhaps dreams are a method of exhausting negative impulses and thoughts out of the body. For example, individuals who have a traumatic experience generally suffer from nightmares of the event (if they can sleep, that is). This could be the mind's way of "tiring out" the memory. Or, conversely, it is the mind's way of trying to come to grips with the event. I suppose it's a slippery slope to write off a hypothesis from one of the men who discovered the structure of DNA. Ok Watson, I'll let you off the hook this time, but you better be sure to use a higher level of scrutiny next time. Yeah, what. Having nothing to do with the above aside from the scientific sounding name, The Magnetic Fields write some great music. A wonderful love song. Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers more mp3s to come. till then go to said the gramophone. Love that blog. posted by ezruh sellof at 1:57 AM 0 comments |
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