random somethings
-Last night I dreamt that I was riding a pickup truck while lying next to a cow and a dog. Most of the time, I couldn't tell them apart. They acted the same, super affectionate and lick-crazy. I remember thinking "Aw, and people eat cows? Can't they see they're the same as dogs?" ... This might have something to do with the fact that last night I chose for my pyjama a shirt that says, "If you love animals called pets, then why do you eat animals called food?"
-I'm reading from a book that teaches you how to speed-read. Apparently, one of the keys to breaking the 900 words a minute barrier is to stop pronouncing the words in our heads and just read with our eyes. Why is that so bloody difficult for me? I can't seem to trust that my brain has taken in the words unless I hear them in my head. I mean, as I am typing this now, I am hearing my own inner voice say these words. Sometimes that is nice - when I read novels, I actually hear many different inner voices, a gruff old man voice, a sexy female voice, a whiny kid voice, a British accent voice and so on. But when I'm reading a non-fiction text to learn something, I don't need to hear a voice - so why can't I get rid of it when I want to? I bet this also applies to thinking. I wonder if some people can only think by internally saying their thoughts. Wouldn't that slow down your thinking? But maybe those people then have an easier time telling people what they are thinking, because their thoughts are already in words, rather than images or gestalt blocks.
-lost my train of thought, or maybe I didn't and it just broke through the sound barrier
-watched "Das Experiment" - about the famous Stanford University experiment. Looked it up on the web. Holy crow, that experiment created a lot of food for thought. Want to list them here another time when it is nicht so spät (not so late)
-"Die Erleuchtenung" (The Enlightenment) is beautiful. Not sure of the spelling. It leaves you with a good feeling about life, no matter where you are, what's happened to you, what's going to happen to you. Fear of losing something that you love prevents you from fully appreciating what you love. Fear of doing something wrong prevents you from fully appreciating what you are doing. It is not the act of cleaning that is important but by doing the cleaning, you wash away all past sorrows, all worries. Enlightenment is not a becoming it is a gradual elimination of everything that is separate, including our memories and past experiences that we associate with "the self". We are miserable because we believe that there is a separate self called "me" or "I". Only a separate self can judge or be judged, criticize or be criticized. "Life is like a chair that you go to sit on and somebody pulls it out from under you." :) that was a great line. Look at the artwork in the sky, so beautiful. In a moment, the wind will come and blow it all away. Life is like that. It is only sad if we try to hold on to that sky. Look up, this is the sky right now.
-I'm reading from a book that teaches you how to speed-read. Apparently, one of the keys to breaking the 900 words a minute barrier is to stop pronouncing the words in our heads and just read with our eyes. Why is that so bloody difficult for me? I can't seem to trust that my brain has taken in the words unless I hear them in my head. I mean, as I am typing this now, I am hearing my own inner voice say these words. Sometimes that is nice - when I read novels, I actually hear many different inner voices, a gruff old man voice, a sexy female voice, a whiny kid voice, a British accent voice and so on. But when I'm reading a non-fiction text to learn something, I don't need to hear a voice - so why can't I get rid of it when I want to? I bet this also applies to thinking. I wonder if some people can only think by internally saying their thoughts. Wouldn't that slow down your thinking? But maybe those people then have an easier time telling people what they are thinking, because their thoughts are already in words, rather than images or gestalt blocks.
-lost my train of thought, or maybe I didn't and it just broke through the sound barrier
-watched "Das Experiment" - about the famous Stanford University experiment. Looked it up on the web. Holy crow, that experiment created a lot of food for thought. Want to list them here another time when it is nicht so spät (not so late)
-"Die Erleuchtenung" (The Enlightenment) is beautiful. Not sure of the spelling. It leaves you with a good feeling about life, no matter where you are, what's happened to you, what's going to happen to you. Fear of losing something that you love prevents you from fully appreciating what you love. Fear of doing something wrong prevents you from fully appreciating what you are doing. It is not the act of cleaning that is important but by doing the cleaning, you wash away all past sorrows, all worries. Enlightenment is not a becoming it is a gradual elimination of everything that is separate, including our memories and past experiences that we associate with "the self". We are miserable because we believe that there is a separate self called "me" or "I". Only a separate self can judge or be judged, criticize or be criticized. "Life is like a chair that you go to sit on and somebody pulls it out from under you." :) that was a great line. Look at the artwork in the sky, so beautiful. In a moment, the wind will come and blow it all away. Life is like that. It is only sad if we try to hold on to that sky. Look up, this is the sky right now.