Harmonium


Home
Get Email Updates
Email Me

Admin Password

Remember Me

600891 Curiosities served
Share on Facebook

Pink elephants
Previous Entry :: Next Entry

Read/Post Comments (0)

After writing yesterday's entry about my dreams, I read this on Boing Boing:

Don't think about pink elephants
According to a new Harvard University psychological study, the thoughts we push out of our brains during the day seep into our dreams at night. The reason may be because the prefontal cortex--the part of the brain we use to plan and organize complex cognitive processes--doesn't work as hard when we're asleep.

"Maybe this is why students dream of sleeping through an important exam, why actors dream of going blank on stage, and why truckers dream of driving off the road," one of the researchers told Scientific American. "Dreams are where our thoughts go when we try to put the thoughts out of mind."

The link can be found at http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00031F64-BD8A-1060-BD8A83414B7F0000 (I'm too lazy too look up the html to make this all pretty)

We had the start of our user's conference today, which required another trip downtown. I don't know how people can sit in that traffic every day. There is no such thing as a reverse commute anymore - the traffic into and out of the city is bad no matter what time of day you drive. It's not that long from my house - an hour at most - but it's constant stop-and-go. The real conference starts tomorrow and I'm staying downtown so that I don't have to contend with this additional stress each day.

Tonight when I got home I had to press the hem on a pair of new pants I had hemmed last night, hem another pair (this did not get done and I'm sure I'll forget that when I go to unpack and stick myself with either the pins or the needle), answer emails from work (also not done, will need to wait until I get up tomorrow morning), pack (done), and go pick up the kids from their Friday night festivities (to be done). Vacation seems unreachably far away right now. But it did get up to 70 today and it actually smelled like spring - damp and fecund and ready to burst. In the best possible way.


Read/Post Comments (0)

Previous Entry :: Next Entry

Back to Top

Powered by JournalScape © 2001-2010 JournalScape.com. All rights reserved.
All content rights reserved by the author.
custsupport@journalscape.com