Been listening to combo of three audio files, white, pink and grey noise to block out all frequencies. 2 are youtube videos, and designed white noise loop I created in a sound editor program .

No matter how varied each sound source is, even in combo, there will be pattern variations that become predictable on repeat.

Kinda like how fremen walk on the sand in dune. Have to walk with no pattern, to not attract sandworms.

I'm the same way, most song lyricsare incomprehensible gibberish. So you'll probably recognize this catchy line: "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night"

No offense taken. Any bad joke is a good joke to someone else. =)

Yes. Some books I remember so fondly, reread from time to time. If I lose such a book, I'll replace it. Some of these books:

Flatland

The phantom tollbooth

Wrinkle in Time trilogy

Yep. Most people in psych wards are struggling, need to process, deal. A typical dynamic I'd find: in the common room during free time, a few would be hanging out, socializing. Some sitting in corner would look over, and you could see they wanted to join, but were scared to. So one of us would say, hey if you want to sit with us, feel free. Some would accept, take chair next to us, and they'd sit quietly, and we'd leave them be, not pressure. Some would thaw, start engaging more. And some would leave, go sit in a corner.

Sometimes, I'd be that person, and be grateful for them reaching out, offering to include me.

This can translate to outer world. Just, normal world, can be hard to connect, people are less honest, less weird. I do better with weird. =)

I tend to hyperfixate. So I got into habit of getting up every 3 hours, going outside, walk around block. I will say to self, get up, right now, out of this chair, outside, now. Been doing this so long now, it's become habit, part of daily routine. Has helped a lot.

I'm struggling with that. My red, orange, blue oil pastels are running out. But have a bunch of brown, grey hues left. So forcing me to adapt. Also, was struggling to figure out how to add layering, depth, large areas of white space. But just one tiny white oil pastel. That forced me to experiment with using gesso as a medium. Initially, just to more cheaply add more white space. But realized gesso is amazing, can be sculpted, if you sculpt patterns, or carve lines into gesso, let it dry... when you lightly run oil pastel over the dried gesso...

Poverty, limited means can be useful. Necessity breeds adaptation.

Holy hell. In the past few days, I've been thinking a lot about quantum physics, the observer effect, the double slit experiment, how misunderstanding leads to a lot of confusion, quantum woo, quantum mysticism. Ive literally been practicing how to explain these things to a lay person. That, for instance, the observer effect, it has nothing to do with a human observing.

Anyhow, hello from my equally nerdy side of the universe.

I have nothing useful to contribute. Just, lately, been thinking a lot about platonic ideals. Plato decided that.... so, chairs. There are office chairs, camping, some metal, some wood, variety. Plato said that any chair you see, it is an imitation, an attempt. But the CHAIR ideal existed separately, in its own realm. At one point he theorized it was at the top of our existence, our reality.

An abstract homunculus, if you will. Mankind's capacity for abstract thought is astonishing, we use it to put rocket ships in space, math, science. Etc. But humans can get so caught up in their abstract thinking, they can lose touch with actual reality. People become labels, wars are fought over imaginary gods, anything can be justified.

Abstract thought can be tricky.

Where are these mangoes? Helena wants to know.

Non dairy creamer, awesome. Wouldn't have thought of that

Exactly the kind of tips I'm looking for. Tks!