new begginings
I’m making a vow to start using this blog again. I built it when I was a noob developer, which I still am but I understand alot more now. Over the last year I have had to take in so much information, sort it out, then find ways to make it stick. Anyhow, im going to write on this a couple times a week and hopefully I will get better at writing.
February 15, 2011
Dreaming
Ive been dreaming almost every night the last few weeks which is something that I haven’t done is such a long time. Im not quite sure what has triggered it but I have to say that it has made my sleep time so much more exciting. I actually keep a dream log now so I can track them and see if there are consistent patterns within them. I sort of feel like I have no control over what happens in them which is somewhat bothersome to me. I figured id do some research to find out if and how other people can control the content in there dreams. This brought me to the topic of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming in a nutshell is basically becoming conscious during a dream with out actually waking up. So essentially you can control what happens in your REM sleep. The reason I think this is valuable is because you can actually do some learning while you sleep. Usually I dream about really dumb events that dont ever happen and although its very entertaining I think that we can use lucid dreaming to learn and train our memory. After some research I found that while your body is completely still during sleep your brain is working a mile a minute. The only reason why dreams are so random is that the part of the brain responsible for logic (the neocortex) is the only part that is not active during sleep. Just starting researching this but more info will follow, my goal is to figure out a way to memorize things while im sleeping.
September 26, 2009
No more adderall
Well it looks like I’m going to have to make due without the work pills for a few months. There uber illegal in japan and it’s definitely not worth getting caught with them.
August 17, 2009
No T.V.
I cant believe how much more productive I am now that I dont have TV. I used to spend at least 2 hours a day gazzing into the magic box rotting my brain away with sitcoms. Now I pretty much spend all day learning how to do things better and getting more brain exercise.