Completely irrelevant to the article, but next time you come across one of those internet crazies who think the Monster logo is satanic, you can troll them by pointing out that it is really just an Ugaritic L -- 𐎍 -- and that one of the original names for the Hebrew god was EL so really Monster is a godly drink, not satanic.
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dustractor commented on The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/amichail
Wow. It's nice to finally have a better name for this. I saw several therapists when I was age 12-17 and they would just slap the blanket label "panic attacks" on it which never felt very apt at all. It rarely happened out of a state of panic. For example, I might look out the window at some trees and houses on the horizon and suddenly something would trigger a sensation that was like the awareness that the true scale of things was much, much larger than we usually let on. That line in a Pink Floyd song -- "My hands ... felt like ... two balloons" was like a lifeline for me in my teens to believe that I wasn't the only one dealing with this. (Except I would have sung it "My tongue ... felt like a ... schoolbus")
Sometimes I would be riding in a car, looking out the window and suddenly the "panic attack" would occur and I would beg the driver to slow down. Even when they stopped the car completely I would still be freaking out. "No! Go slower!"
Harvard Graphics! That's where it all started for me.
dustractor commented on The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf] allanschore.com/pdf/Schor... · Posted by u/sensiquest
Attachment Theory is an interesting subject on the matter.
A few useful books which helped me with both understanding and healing (there're still problems, but it gets better):
1. Love Sense, Sue Johnson.
2. The Power of Attachment, Diane Pooler Heller.
3. Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults, David, Shemmings and Yvonne Shemmings.
4. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk.
5. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson.
6. "Focusing" practice, Eugene Gendlin.
7. How to survive the most critical 5 seconds of your life, Tim Larkin.
The first four lay down foundations, explaining the mechanics, possible solutions, will help in navigating, filtering and planning the healing.
The 5th and 6th are actual healing, former for couples, the latter mostly for individuals.
The last one is about a wisdom of violence embedded into the body of affected individuals which is likely suppressed by the rational part of the mind.
You seem to be a connoisseur of this genre of reading material. You might enjoy "Feelings Matter: Keys to the Unexplored Self" by Ceanne DeRohan.
In 1990, there was a train-wreck Wim Wenders movie that I loved and still love called "Until the End of the World". It was about a scientist (played by Max Von Sydow) who created a machine that could record someone's dreams or visual experiences directly from the brain and play them back even to a blind person. https://youtu.be/gilzgbdk300?t=442
Anyways, the images that were depicted in this work of fiction shot in 1990 about "the future" of 2000, had a very interesting look to them-- kind of distorted and dreamy like the images in the paper.
Are the images in the paper just a case of overfitting? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but it still makes me giddy remembering the Wim Wenders film.
Such a great soundtrack too! I rewatched it last week just for the jams. Also, for those into the glitch art genre, the dream sequences were WAY ahead of their time.
dustractor commented on Is artificial light poisoning the planet? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/fortran77
I grew up in a rural area where most people opted out of the light that the electric company installed for every customer who got service. Whenever I visited a city it infuriated me to see tens of thousands of lights and my parents would explain the 'safety' issue and that it prevented thefts. Nine year old me could only think, "well if people are gonna steal, why not spend the money you use on that electricity to buy them homes and maybe they won't want to steal..."
dustractor commented on Fragrant fungi rewards Himalayan foragers www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/80mph
Reminds me of one time when I was hiking during the winter (in Arkansas) and I hiked down into a ravine that was filled with the most amazing smell. I could find no signs of life such as flowers to identify the source. The only thing I could find was a lone mushroom growing on a boulder. Nobody believed me when I told them that I thought the smell was due to a mushroom but it was the only possible thing in that whole valley.
dustractor commented on US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast apnews.com/article/pentag... · Posted by u/Nrbelex
We should figure out a way to harvest the helium.
dustractor commented on Is algae the new kale? nationalgeographic.com/en... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
It is definitely time to protect the sources of quality algae.
Philosophy in blender -- whew that's a topic! We can all wish it had stayed monolithic but there are multiple, like overlapping waves holding onto vestiges of previous eras.
Left click versus right click select was a real war and to some degree, minor skirmishes are still being fought. If you really and truly want to learn to 'go with the flow', realize that the 'default' hotkeys are not the real 'default' hotkeys for blender veterans and that it was fairly recent when the program defaults got switched over to be noob compatible.