it's 4am

[mellowtigger]

My brain does actually have an off switch.  It's not something that I can trigger myself though.  (I've tried.)  No, I won't say what it is.  If you had an off switch, you wouldn't publicize its operation either.

Some days, it's:

"How is it that a spontaneously generated particle knows which 3 dimensions to be part of?  If it don't know sometimes, is that why they say gravity dissipates into the multiverse, because it occasionally picks a different 3-dimensional coordinate to align with?  Why is it the only particle to get confused?  IS it the only one?"

Other days, it's:

"How many colors are there that we can't see?  Bees see ultraviolet.  Pirhana see infrared.  Goldfish see both.  Is the "Mona Lisa" ghastly when viewed in 5-color "Goldfish Technovision" because the wrong pigments were used?  Human retinas can detect single photons.  What would happen if our brains didn't properly filter out all the information and blind us to the world as it is?  What are we seeing that we can't see?"

Today, it's:

"Yowza, the shaggy-headed barista who's always so nice to us at Bear Coffee has hairy legs too."

All of them, distractions that keep the mind plowing through questions that have no answers.  I want solutions, not more problems!  *sigh*

Comments

[sunshinenilkcub]

My brain does not have an off switch. I have to use a prescription for trazadone to force it to go off. The distractions that keep me awake are more about relationships and psychological issues, such as why people do the things they do and which of the many theories regarding this psychological issue is the correct one. The issues get turned over and over a million times in my brain trying to find a resolution. Sometimes I might fall into a fitful sleep on my own, waking several times in the night still ruminating on the issue, but the trazadone knocks me out completely till morning where I wake up with a groan at the still wandering issue, but rested.