Ten years old tape
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Hi CPians, today I woke up late and knew at once that my brain hadn't really slept: 1) Suddenly I knew the perfect solution to a math question I had to solve for university. Yesterday I had planned to give it up and wait for the sample solution. 2) I write another short story, but somehow I didn't have a clue how to construct the second half without getting boring - until last night! I've dreamed the whole story from the last sentence I wrote yesterday up to a cool ending. 3) Today I have "From Here To Eternity" from Iron Maiden playing in my head. As soon as I got up, still before breakfast, I noted down the ending of my story. Dialogs and monologues as far as I remembered them, quick notes for the rest. Then I did my math homework in five minutes (I've spent an hour on the same task before, but as I knew this morning, I tried it completely wrong). Still I had Iron Maiden playing in my head. What to do with that? Of course: Find the old disk ... well, after I couldn't find it among my CDs, I remembered that in the good old times I had neither CD burner nor money (come on, don't beat me, I was 18 and everybody used to copy music from CD to cassette). So I dragged a big old box from under my bed, blew the worst dust from my old tapes and started searching. Finally I found it: "Fear of the Dark", labeled with colourful markers. It's a cheap cassette and as good as ten years old. As I inserted it into my 13 years old cassette deck, I heard something strange. The music was much slower than I had expected. Well, that could be my memory. I'm one of those "piano terrorists" who play faster and faster, even when a slow player tries to play along. But a few minutes later, near the end of side A, the loudness started shaking like waves. Right now, I'm listening to the first minutes of side B. The loudness was changing in the beginning and became more stable by the time. The music is actually enjoyable now, but something is still missing in the overall sound. Alright, I guess that tape is just dying of old age. It is time to get MP3s or a CD. But it was one of the last cassettes I've ever recorded and there's a large box of older tapes. Good bye, sound of the good old times! :rose: At the end of the day (21:57 here) it was a sunday of three important ideas. If I'll ever find out what causes those nightly idea attacks, I'll let you know. :)
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Hi CPians, today I woke up late and knew at once that my brain hadn't really slept: 1) Suddenly I knew the perfect solution to a math question I had to solve for university. Yesterday I had planned to give it up and wait for the sample solution. 2) I write another short story, but somehow I didn't have a clue how to construct the second half without getting boring - until last night! I've dreamed the whole story from the last sentence I wrote yesterday up to a cool ending. 3) Today I have "From Here To Eternity" from Iron Maiden playing in my head. As soon as I got up, still before breakfast, I noted down the ending of my story. Dialogs and monologues as far as I remembered them, quick notes for the rest. Then I did my math homework in five minutes (I've spent an hour on the same task before, but as I knew this morning, I tried it completely wrong). Still I had Iron Maiden playing in my head. What to do with that? Of course: Find the old disk ... well, after I couldn't find it among my CDs, I remembered that in the good old times I had neither CD burner nor money (come on, don't beat me, I was 18 and everybody used to copy music from CD to cassette). So I dragged a big old box from under my bed, blew the worst dust from my old tapes and started searching. Finally I found it: "Fear of the Dark", labeled with colourful markers. It's a cheap cassette and as good as ten years old. As I inserted it into my 13 years old cassette deck, I heard something strange. The music was much slower than I had expected. Well, that could be my memory. I'm one of those "piano terrorists" who play faster and faster, even when a slow player tries to play along. But a few minutes later, near the end of side A, the loudness started shaking like waves. Right now, I'm listening to the first minutes of side B. The loudness was changing in the beginning and became more stable by the time. The music is actually enjoyable now, but something is still missing in the overall sound. Alright, I guess that tape is just dying of old age. It is time to get MP3s or a CD. But it was one of the last cassettes I've ever recorded and there's a large box of older tapes. Good bye, sound of the good old times! :rose: At the end of the day (21:57 here) it was a sunday of three important ideas. If I'll ever find out what causes those nightly idea attacks, I'll let you know. :)
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Did you also wake up feeling more refreshed than usual? If so, I suspect you've been lucid dreaming. Years ago, when I was at university, I had a girlfriend who was heavily into "new age" stuff. Most of it was rubbish, involving crystals and other rubbish, however the stuff she had on self hypnosis and lucid dreaming was fascinating. I still do a bit of both, especially if I'm suffering from insomnia (which is a regular occurrence) - the best thing about it being that you can sleep for a relatively short period of time - say one or two hours - and feel you've had the best night's sleep ever when you wake up.
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Did you also wake up feeling more refreshed than usual? If so, I suspect you've been lucid dreaming. Years ago, when I was at university, I had a girlfriend who was heavily into "new age" stuff. Most of it was rubbish, involving crystals and other rubbish, however the stuff she had on self hypnosis and lucid dreaming was fascinating. I still do a bit of both, especially if I'm suffering from insomnia (which is a regular occurrence) - the best thing about it being that you can sleep for a relatively short period of time - say one or two hours - and feel you've had the best night's sleep ever when you wake up.
Nope, it was more like a long phase between sleeping and waking up. I can stay semi-somnolent for several hours, drifting back and forth from actual dreams to nearly consciousness. I tried several ways of lucid dreaming, but it doesn't seem to work for me. :(
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Nope, it was more like a long phase between sleeping and waking up. I can stay semi-somnolent for several hours, drifting back and forth from actual dreams to nearly consciousness. I tried several ways of lucid dreaming, but it doesn't seem to work for me. :(
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Corinna John wrote:
I tried several ways of lucid dreaming, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
Here's how I learnt: you need to concentrate on something monotonous and rhythmic. Happily, as a living breathing human, you have just the thing - your heart. Concentrate on your heartbeat. Don't try to count them, just observe each and every beat as it happens. Allow your breathing slow, but again don't put any concious thought into it just let it happen naturally. After a short time you'll relax and your mind will start to drift and this is when the fun starts :) Once you've mastered this, you'll pretty much be able to switch into the state as and when you want. Perhaps avoid doing it while driving though :)
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Nope, it was more like a long phase between sleeping and waking up. I can stay semi-somnolent for several hours, drifting back and forth from actual dreams to nearly consciousness. I tried several ways of lucid dreaming, but it doesn't seem to work for me. :(
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Corinna John wrote:
I can stay semi-somnolent for several hours
That's the student in you. :-D I wish that I had that luxury. ;)
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Corinna John wrote:
I tried several ways of lucid dreaming, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
Here's how I learnt: you need to concentrate on something monotonous and rhythmic. Happily, as a living breathing human, you have just the thing - your heart. Concentrate on your heartbeat. Don't try to count them, just observe each and every beat as it happens. Allow your breathing slow, but again don't put any concious thought into it just let it happen naturally. After a short time you'll relax and your mind will start to drift and this is when the fun starts :) Once you've mastered this, you'll pretty much be able to switch into the state as and when you want. Perhaps avoid doing it while driving though :)
Your "lucid dreaming" sounds remarkably like meditation to me. :) Isn't lucid dreaming where you are already asleep and dreaming and you manage to "program" yourself to recognize when you are in a dream and take conscious control of what's happening?
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