"Reptiles, birds and mammals all sleep. That is, they become unconscious to their surroundings for periods of time. Some fish and amphibians reduce their awareness but do not ever become unconscious like the higher vertebrates do. Insects do not appear to sleep, although they may become inactive in daylight or darkness ( Read more... )

Today someone mentioned a nine year old girl. In my head i thought, "how old was i when she was born? 16-9..." and it took me a while to realize that I am not 16, I am 19. And then, just a little while later, a cashier asked me how old I am and I started to say 18. I'm not even on crack, what's the matter with me ( Read more... )

Bananas have tryptophan! I eat bananas all the time. I was eating one when I accidentally came across the tryptophan fact on the internet. In fact, I'm eating banana right now! Enough with the madness ( Read more... )

I had monster cramps today. But I didn't pass out! Go me! I was, however, doubled up in pain for a couple hours. But it's over now! Thank god, I now have 19 pain free days ahead (besides my foot and back...let's just say, 19 days free of uterine pain). I'm not complainin', pain makes you appreciate things (physically and emotionally). Pain is good ( Read more... )

"Some scientists believe dreams are the cortex’s attempt to find meaning in the random signals that it receives during REM sleep. The cortex is the part of the brain that interprets and organizes information from the environment during consciousness. It may be that, given random signals from the pons during REM sleep, the cortex tries to interpret ( Read more... )

A while ago I used to get sleep paralysis. It used to happen to me a lot. Just last night I looked it up on the internet for the first time. Before last night I didn't even know what it was called, or if it happened to other people much. And now I know what causes it (I had guessed what caused it pretty accurately). Luckily it hasn't happened to me ( Read more... )

"Over a quarter of all homicides occur among friends and acquaintances... the offender is nearly always male and the victim is also mostly male. In fact, 80% of homicides between friends and acquaintances in Australia involve a male victim and a male offender. Only about 18% of such homicides involve a male killing a female (13.4%) or a female ( Read more... )

When I'm half asleep I think about things, and in the morning I remember them and I'm surprised that they make sense. Like last night (or this morning, i don't know) I was thinking (like I often think) about how we really are just bizarre animals. We're just biological organisms who have created all of these non-biological things. I was lying in ( Read more... )

I talked to Plastik last night. I hadn't spoken to him for a long time. He called me last June, but I never called him back. I wrote his number down though, so when he called yesterday I compared the numbers so I knew it was him. He called my parents house and my mom gave me the message. He was really sweet...but I don't trust him. He said ( Read more... )

My chiropractor/aurvedic practitioner says I need to detox. She says I'm too young to be this toxic.
I was on the phone today, ordering food, and the person asked for my phone number. For the life of me I couldn't remember it. I really have moved a stone's throw away from sanity.
I am now back in santa cruz for the summer. Classes start in the