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I need a fix cause I'm going down.
Jan. 24th, 2008 12:28 pmMy guilty pleasure magazine is Men's Health. Because really, I don't have guilt about reading Entertainment Weekly, that isht is informative and often quite funny, especially if you just skip all the features. But Men's Health is pretty sexist, ridiculous, and just straight up repetitive. Every piece is basically eat this food for this, but eat this food for that and take this vitamin for this and this vitamin for that and its sort of a information glut where you would be taking a million supplements and a dozen different exercise plans, but then again, I like knowing all that's out there, I just choose one that works for me in every category and stick with it. Which is why I don't have a subscription and just buy 3-4 issues a year, even though I supposed the cost of those 3-4 issues equals a yearlong subscription, so I'm kinda reconsidering. Anyway, in one issue recently, there was some bit about how a recent study showed people who visualized lifting weights (in addition to actually doing it) had some significant higher percentage of muscle gain. So now I catch myself, usually either at the computer waiting for something to load, or sitting on the toilet, not so much visualizing lifting weights, but just sort of doing fast bicep curls with imaginary weights. Does that count as visualizing? Maybe. It definitely counts as ridiculous-looking.
The majority of my dreams that take place in a city, take place in a specific Dream City that is familiar and recurring, but does not actually exist. Like, its not Chicago or any other place I've been, though there's certain familiar elements of other places. The best part is that, while huge, its not really to scale, so its easy to get from one place to another. Its like some mini-town at Disney, that seems actual size until you get closer, and it turns out the front door only comes to your knee. Except in my dream, when you get closer to buildings, the scale adjusts and it become normal size. Its kinda hard to explain, like most things in dreams, I guess, but what I think is more fascinating anyway is the recurring nature, that my brain has created a specific Dream City, like a set on a studio lot.
I started reading The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin, based mostly on a whim and a recommendation, and I was a little scared at first because on the cover is a blurb from John Gray, the Men are from Mars guy, but I must say, a few dozen pages into it, and it's kinda good. I suspect he might not go as in depth as I like, but we'll see.
The majority of my dreams that take place in a city, take place in a specific Dream City that is familiar and recurring, but does not actually exist. Like, its not Chicago or any other place I've been, though there's certain familiar elements of other places. The best part is that, while huge, its not really to scale, so its easy to get from one place to another. Its like some mini-town at Disney, that seems actual size until you get closer, and it turns out the front door only comes to your knee. Except in my dream, when you get closer to buildings, the scale adjusts and it become normal size. Its kinda hard to explain, like most things in dreams, I guess, but what I think is more fascinating anyway is the recurring nature, that my brain has created a specific Dream City, like a set on a studio lot.
I started reading The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin, based mostly on a whim and a recommendation, and I was a little scared at first because on the cover is a blurb from John Gray, the Men are from Mars guy, but I must say, a few dozen pages into it, and it's kinda good. I suspect he might not go as in depth as I like, but we'll see.
