I feel that people are who they are as a direct result of their memories. I’ll bet that the people out there that start saying “I don’t like who I”m becoming” are people who don’t take a minute to sit back and reminisce about the past every now and again. Without memories you only are learning from new experiences and if you surround yourself with bad experiences and don’t think about the past, you may find yourself to be a person you never thought you’d be.

You learn from your mistakes and whether you know it or not, absorb your surrounding personalities in one form or another. Without memories your brain can only react based on current events and I’ve personally found bad situations are much easier to find with age. If we don’t think back to when life was (seemingly) much simpler, you might start to think the world is a messed up place and change your personality according to how you perceive the world. So stop and reminisce about the past every once in a while… it just may save you.

I got to thinking about light while driving in the fog yesterday. I realized fog reveals the beam of light (the headlights send out) very well. Dust and other particles/objects have the same effect too.  I got to wondering, why don’t you see the beam of light unless it comes into contact with something? Think about it, the only time we see light is when its actually touching an object. Light is something that exists to us only because of physical objects. We would never know it was there if there were no physical objects for it to touch. Light seems to be something physical but only seen as a direct result from other things, and on the other hand things are only seen as a direct result from light touching it.

I noticed that I have a much better or worse memory of a particular day based solely on what type of weather we are having. This is regardless of the events that transpire that day. I’ll remember things from as simple as the walk to my car to the lunch I ate that afternoon, or where I went and at what time etc. For me I have a much better memory in gloomy weather (where the sky has all clouds but no rain), damp and a cooler temperature (like 35-40 degrees Fahrenheit). As opposed to a hot summer day with the sun out and clear sky where I don’t seem to remember much at all. Not only do I seem to remember better during these days but I usually have a “good day” where I feel as though I’m more aware of everything around me, I’m in a good mood and I seem to think more clearly.

I’m thinking that I possibly remember less on hot days with the sun out because there are so many more distractions that keep me from being focused on the events. Something like trying to keep the sun out of my eyes, or trying not to stay in the sun too long to avoid sunburn, the fact that its insanely hot and I’m trying to keep cool.

Is this true for anyone else? A specific type of weather makes it seemingly easier for you to retain information or more aware of your surroundings?

Memory improved by +80!

It takes up 70% of the Earth, 62% a human body and seems to be the basic element of all that is living on this planet. Water is one of those things we take advantage of daily that you don’t really stop to think about.

What if water is actually a living creature… a collection of really really lazy people? Maybe even animals too (in their laziest form). So lazy in fact that they don’t even feel like holding themselves together, just allowing themselves to break down and mix with others to be pushed around by un-lazy creatures. If this was ever proven, PETA would have a fit! We push around water and abuse it in so many ways! (washing dishes, flushing toilets, capturing it in bottles etc) and don’t ever stop to think… is this a living creature? Perhaps we should be a bit nicer to water, just in case it decides to be less lazy and take revenge!

I foresee a change in driving in the future. It’s not so far into the future where we have flying cars, but this is more of what I think will be next for our roads (to be more exact, our highways). Imagine driving on the road, you’re heading towards the highway entrance ramp. As you approach, your vehicle dings through your speakers. You begin to make your turn on the ramp and a voice lowers your speaker volume and says  “destination”. Meanwhile a highway computer is calculating your entrance to the highway and begins moving cars (in the lane nearest you) over, in anticipation for your entry. The steering wheel and your petals all lock into place, the computer is taking over the navigation and operation of your vehicle.

You state your destination, “Par street exit, Orlando”. The computer then confirms or rejects your destination “destination confirmed”. Then you just sit back relax, do some reading or watch a movie as you reach your exit. You notice that there are no traffic jams even though you are in the middle of what normally would have been rush hour. The computer intelligently controls all traffic and you no longer have to deal with that, what I like to call, “slinky effect”. The slinky effect is where the front car gets slowed down and when it begins to move up to speed again, the acceleration takes a while to get to your car. This to me always ended up looking like a slinky.

About five minuets before you reach your exit destination you hear that same ding and a voice over the speakers stating “approaching destination, five minuets remain”. Then again two minuets from the destination your seat vibrates and you get the instructions “prepare to exit”. Once it takes you to your exit, you will need to acknowledge you understand the controls will be given back to you by pushing a button located in your vehicle (somewhere where you wouldn’t accidently hit it). Once this button is pushed on the exit ramp, it will restore full control to you when it stops at the stop sign at the end of the ramp.

If  you don’t push the button when you are required to, the computer pulls you off to the side of the exit ramp and parks your car until you push the button. The side of the exit ramp will be something similar to a pickup area at an airport where you pull your car off to the side behind the other cars in a line. Once this happens it sends out reminders every minute. After five minutes the highway computer dials a road service to come out and make sure everything is okay and/or possibly issue a ticket.

Today we manipulate energy to do what we want, channeling it through wires and air waves to power all our appliances, tv’s, radios, microwaves etc. We understand it to be a separate entity than us. We understand it by what it does and the devices we use to gather it. I feel it surrounds us and what we see is just a more physical representation of this. Have you ever wondered what the future holds for us in regards to energy?

We as a people have become so separated from mother earth that we fail to realize we are a part of nature. Perhaps one day we will become more in touch with what we were meant to be, maybe someday in the future we will be able to harness the energy all around us manipulating it in more useful ways as it is a part of us. Instead of energy being bound by wires we will understand it to the point where we can channel it with our minds and become one with the universe as we know it. Something similar to ascension but much more than science fiction depicts it to be.

Seriously people… let’s stop and take a gander at brown. When most of you think about it you say “what?… it’s just another color”. But have you ever painted? What colors do you use to get brown… yes yellow and black. I wouldn’t say that’s the only way to get it. Simply mix any amount of colors and you get brown, it seems to me that perhaps you should get a different color when you mix different paints, but always this mucky brown color.

What I’m thinking is that the color brown isn’t in fact a color at all. I think it’s the color our eyes see, when your brain can’t process the actual color. I think that there must be some wondrous colors out there and we just can’t see them. I mean stop and think about it for a minute. How many actual colors are there excluding different tones and shades of the same color? Not enough, there aren’t enough colors in this world… (That we can see) to keep me even remotely satisfied that we are processing everything. There has to be a wider variety of colors out there, I just don’t think that we can see them.