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Fruit Punch Moments.

Feb 22, 2006 04:33

I can't work. Not this week. Two things I'm in the middle of are roadblocked, and I'm just . . . tired. Not physically, I'm actually restless and bored, just . . . emotionally, creatively. Yeah, there's this wellspring and yadda yadda yadda, and someday it'll all come gushing back, and there will be wine and roses and kittens romping in the ( Read more... )

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cag February 22 2006, 13:41:48 UTC

What would happen if you had control over the content of your dreams?

I think dreaming would become just another form of television. Perhaps relaxing and fulfilling (at least on a superficial level). But you would get less (if any) of this: a way for That Which Is to communicate with you.

On forgetting:

We are exposed to so much stimulis, physical and psychic, on a daily basis that for us not to forget - try as we might to hold on to certain memories - would be an impossibility. In other words, you will forget some of this eventually...in your conscious mind.

And yet, one can easily argue that we never really forget anything. Our brains are of such capacity, and we only actively use such a small fraction of that capacity, that one can easily surmise that the rest of it is one great holding tank.

As someone who writes so eloquently about scent, you should know full well that scent is one of the most powerful memory triggers. Don't wash those clothes. When you want/need to remember, stick your nose in the bags and take a deep

naamah_darling February 22 2006, 19:17:01 UTC

Heh. That's why I'm keeping them in my closet all wrapped up. At some point the comfort of wearing them will overcome the strength of the smell, and I'll brign them out, but not yet.

I think everything that happens to us is in our brains forever, we just lose the shortcuts to it. But people who have things like Alzheimer's, sometimes they're remembering crap from when they were, like, five years old, and it's just as clear as day. It's not that they can't remember the present, it's just that their short and long term memories are all stirred up and they've lost their abilitiy to distinguish which memories are memories, and which are present. Which leads me to believe that it all gets written down somewhere.

cag February 22 2006, 19:20:10 UTC

Exactly, and since it is, one shouldn't worry so much about "losing" cherished memories. The ones that you truly need to get through the day will stay with you; the other will fade, only to reappear at the odd moment.

Actually, since you are rather scent-oriented, you might well experiment with intentional scent-memory: that is, think about the memory you wish to retain while smelling a certain scent. Later, bring out the scent and see if the memory returns.

naamah_darling February 22 2006, 19:27:37 UTC

Ooooh. That's kind of cool! I may have to play with that.

cag February 22 2006, 19:30:46 UTC

If you do, let me know how it goes.

Oh, by the way, I purchased imps of Iago and Scherezade most on the strength of your reviews. Initial scenting seems positive, but you should really try Dee and Namaste, if you haven't already.

naamah_darling February 22 2006, 20:05:59 UTC

Dee is definitely on my to-try list. Namaste looks . . . interesting. I have no idea what that would smell like. I'll have to try it!

cag February 22 2006, 20:07:35 UTC

Namaste is edible without being foody. Dee smells like a private library.

naamah_darling February 22 2006, 20:08:59 UTC

LIBRARY!

I love library scents!

cag February 22 2006, 20:11:21 UTC

See my LJ entry for this morning.

naamah_darling February 22 2006, 20:48:38 UTC

Oh, I MUST HAVE IT.

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