Empty Bar Opportunity I went to a fairly new bar the other day. There was nobody there, so I had a nice chat with the bartender. I started asking her some random questions about various superlatives. Poor To Rich https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29Loop.mp4 She has this friend that is very rich, very successful. Before […]
Imaginary Paradoxes
Gabriel’s Horn There is a paradox in calculus called the Horn of Gabriel. It’s a mathematical function, a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional equation y=1/x, but rotated around the x axis. The reason it is considered a paradox is this is a three dimensional shape with infinite surface area but finite […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Step By Step Magic
Card Tricks A long time ago I had to teach a magic class to two groups of kids. One group of five year olds, and another group of six year olds. We ended up deciding to teach them a set of self working magic tricks, along with some magic stories along with the […]
Lucid Dreaming Archetypes
Ancient Mythology There is a key difference between mythology between how it evolved, and how it is studied. When we study or even enjoy mythology, we do so from a frame of mind of knowing it isn’t true. Of knowing this happened a long time ago, without really needing to know the environment […]
Ancient Alien Mythology
Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
Collective Dream Resonance
Dream Experiment There was an interesting dream experiment done a few years ago by an independent organization who somehow got a lot of funding. They had several people in a sleep room, and they essentially had to wait until they all went into REM sleep at the same time, which took several nights of […]
Lucid Dreaming Lab
Anti Anxiety Pattern There’s been a fairly recent discovery about how the brain will reconfigure itself during deep sleep to get rid of anxiety. This, of course, can lead to either positive or negative reinforcing loops. The less anxiety you have, the better you sleep, which will further decrease your anxiety. The […]
Galileo’s Timepiece
Drugs and Brains For every drug you can take, that can give you an interesting mental experience, you have to have a corresponding receptor in your brain. Drugs, whether they be naturally occurring in nature, or highly synthesized and concentrated in a lab, can only work if they match with a pre-existing receptor site […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]