Canadian psychologist Jayne Gackenbach says avid gamers are more likely to have lucid dreams, and are better able to turn bad dreams into more positive experiences. Gackenbach hopes her theories can help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder overcome their symptoms.
Makes sense.
I’ve unfortunately gotten into the habit of watching tv shows. I’ve never understood it but now I have the time and boredom at night to kill 6 episodes of something.
Started with Portlandia.
Caught up on The Pitch.
Caught up on Girls.
Gonna try out Louie.
Gonna start Freaks and Geeks.
Gonna start Twin Peaks.
Fuhhhh.
so bored
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A couple months back I was asked to write an editorial about the killing of Trayvon Martin. I declined because I was in the middle of touring and felt I couldn’t put enough time into saying something interesting or relevant to add to the discussion that hadn’t already been said several times in…
I’m feeling good about all my time spent so far this summer. It’s definitely a major step back from the usual routine and that’s what I need right now. I’m not fed up with things though, I’m just trying to step back to get a greater perspective of myself and my goals. This summer I’m doing that.
I’m also getting things moving.
How things are situated right now has proven so unpredictable to me this time last year. I think it has to everyone. By everyone, I mean the main guys I was kicking it with last summer in Brandon. A couple nights ago a year in retrospective was put on panorma for all of us to entertain. It blows my mind. A year ago so many fragmented yet intense ideas were spewed out of us, just to be tested by our memory and drive. It marked a transitioning. For good, and well, maybe not so much. That fall semester was shit for everyone. I was thinking some crazy things back then. I didn’t know where I was going. It seemed to me like more and more people I knew didn’t know either.
It’s weird to say but I now have a very far from clear picture of what I want, but it’s maybe getting clearer. Seems to be for me and everyone else for that matter.
So this summer is the start of working toward that thing, whatever it may be. It’s already begun. The ideas are being hashed out and put into action.
Looking forward to see where I am a year from now.
