GPS Trope There’s a very common movie trick if you happen to be a bad guy getting chased by the good guys or a good guy getting chased by the bad guys. This requires taking the GPS tracking device they think they’ve hidden on your and putting in a truck or animal or other […]
Lost Cities Of Seclusion
Money Stacks There are a lot of interesting metaphors about money, about the amount of actual physical currency you’d need to have a certain amount. Like $10K would be like a small stack of hundreds about an inch or so thick. Or a million would be a small stack of those. And […]
Future Toast Pattern
Why Am I Here? A common experience is temporary amnesia. You’ll be sitting there, thinking about something important. Then you’ll get an idea of something else important that you need to get from another room. Sorry, Who Are You? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr28Loop.mp4 Most people openly admit that they suck at remembering names. Somebody […]
Sensory Deprivation Hypnosis
Data Input System There are only a few ways data from the outside world can get into our brains. Visual and auditory are the two main ones. But feeling, taste, and smell are so paths to storied memories. Teacher Error https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr27Loop.mp4 I have a friend who is a teacher. She said […]
Unintended Mind Control
Hobby Shop I found this used electronic shop downtown. They had a bunch of old kits, and what looked like some homemade gadgets that didn’t seem to have any indication what this was. I asked the guy behind the counter, and he didn’t know what this was either. His dad had opened […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Deep Rooted Jesus Tree
Drinking Party My friend has this huge tree in his backyard he’s been wanting to chop down for a long time. I was supposed to go and help him, but when I showed up he’d changed his mind. He’d hired some pros to do the job, so we’d just hang out, get hammered […]
Hallucinated Evolution
Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]