Dys-

This is not for you.

INTP that is sometimes INFP.

Ambitious, but some people call this "dreaming."

gordonlevitting:

if you’re ever feeling overdramatic just remember that zelda fitzgerald once threw herself down a flight of marble stairs at a party because her husband was talking to someone else

(via khaleesi)

The speed with which we identify a familiar voice coming out of the blue is comforting, but also somewhat mysterious. Because the measures, the units we use in calculating the clear distinction that exists between one voice and another, are unformulated and nameless. They don’t have a code. These days more and more is encoded.

So I wonder whether there aren’t other measures, equally uncoded yet precise, by which we calculate other givens. For example, the amount of circumstantial freedom existing in a certain situation, its extent and its strict limits. Prisoners become experts at this. They develop a particular sensitivity towards liberty, not as a principle, but as a granular substance. They spot fragments of liberty almost immediately whenever they occur.

—Fellow Prisoners, John Berger

In psychology, there is this horrible thing called “Implicit Memory.” To quote from Robin Grille, “‘Implicit’ memory is available from birth or earlier, it is unconscious, and is encoded in emotional, sensory and visceral recall. In other words, what we don’t remember with our minds, we remember with our bodies, with our hearts and our ‘guts’ – with lasting implications for our thinking, feeling, and behaviour.” This is stuff that happened to us in the womb. This is stuff that happened to us at 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months. Things we can’t recall, but that are there. That we remember. Abandonment, stress, environmental chaos.

The chaos of your mother crying over a death while you were still a fetus. The chaos of leaving. The stress of moving. The chemicals released inside a body, not your own, that heavily influenced you.

But you don’t know that.

Because you will try to blame things on an experience that you remember. A departure, an argument, a death, a break-up, a something, anything, that offers an explanation. But there will be none.

All of our explanations are stored in the implicit. The chemical reactions. The unconscious memory. Some abstruse abyss.

It isn’t enough.

It will never be

   e n o u g h

You will finish school. You will walk across the stage, your friend will cat call from the seats and make suggestive comments to help lighten you up as you do.

You will graduate.

You will not love life.

You will not know what to do with your career. Nothing is appealing. Everything is exciting. Too much energy is put into getting out of bed in the morning, and getting dressed, that doing class work isn’t an actual thought.

Too much energy will be wasted on painting or writing or walking or taking photos or cooking or staring at the wall to keep yourself from killing yourself.

You will experience moments where you feel full and content with life.

But you will fail.

thenearsightedmonkey:

medicalschool:




Pyramidal Neuron, drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)











“For example, in 2005, neuroscientists discovered that an epilepsy patient had one neuron cell that fired whenever a photo of Jennifer Aniston was presented. Various photos showing the blonde actress in different poses and from different angles all elicited a response from the same concept cell, a neuron in the hippocampus.
“Concept cells were also found in different regions of the medial temporal lobe,” Roy said. “For example, a ‘James Brolin cell’ was found in the right hippocampus, a ‘Venus Williams cell’ was in the left hippocampus, a ‘Marilyn Monroe cell’ was in the left parahippocampal  cortex and a ‘Michael Jackson cell’ was in the right amygdala.”
Except from: Do brain cells need to be connected to have meaning?December 4, 2012 by Lisa Zyga in Neuroscience

thenearsightedmonkey:

medicalschool:

Pyramidal Neuron, drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)

“For example, in 2005, neuroscientists discovered that an epilepsy patient had one neuron cell that fired whenever a photo of Jennifer Aniston was presented. Various photos showing the blonde actress in different poses and from different angles all elicited a response from the same concept cell, a neuron in the hippocampus.

“Concept cells were also found in different regions of the medial temporal lobe,” Roy said. “For example, a ‘James Brolin cell’ was found in the right hippocampus, a ‘Venus Williams cell’ was in the left hippocampus, a ‘Marilyn Monroe cell’ was in the left parahippocampal  cortex and a ‘Michael Jackson cell’ was in the right amygdala.”

Except from: Do brain cells need to be connected to have meaning?
December 4, 2012 by Lisa Zyga in Neuroscience

(Source: expasy.org, via scientificillustration)