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*

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[otterlover01.livejournal.com]

Hey Terry, don't take those questions so hard, they are interestng quetions and they keep this conventonal, domestic world being more interesting, and they would have an answer some day. Last one is the most interesting even when it is not a question! lol

Talkig about clors, I sometimes question myself on what if different brains has a different interpretation of retinal signals and everybody sees different hues of the same colors and even totally different ones? How this affects the perception of beauty, for example, of a painting? I have known several daltonics and it definitively doesn't seem to affect their appreciation of the beuty of, say, sunsets, but it must be definitively diferent. Oh well, it is an interesting wrld! :o) Hugs, Luis.

[dangerdhotrod.livejournal.com]

IMO these musings are a much more interesting way to spend excess brain energy on than wondering what some person really meant when they did this or that or whether or not X is going to be somewhere and what you're going to say to them or if they like you or not or all the other kinds of useless stuff most people seem to spend their time thinking about. Talk about questions with no answers!

Also, I gotta get to bear coffee! I'll plan on it next week fer sure.

I swear I've seen colors that we can't see before in dreams, and tasted things too...I'm not sure if it's a real sensation or not, but I don't think that being able to sense these things would throw or 'ordinary' system out of whack. Because our minds are so good at processing and making sense out of sensory information, the whole cortical plasticity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity thing...people who lose senses end up re-mapping the old unused parts for their remaining senses...if you had more senses you'd adjust as well...though I guess something else might suffer because of lack of resources...

[ogam.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful mind you have, (http://mellowtigger.livejournal.com/profile)Mellow Tigger (http://mellowtigger.livejournal.com).

[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.

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[sunshinenilkcub]

I have often wondered that myself about colors and whether people see the same exact hue.