I do want to be really good in what I choose to study and will not accept mediocracy but will continue to strive for what I believe in. I know I messed up just because I thought I wanted those other things, but now I know reality for what it is I know the greatest [...]
Archive for November, 2008
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Posted in General Musings on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
because we hide, because it appears easier. Digging a hole no matter the medium even concrete gives way to escapism. I am a star, shining bright light, reaching to nowhere and everywhere, taking endless journeys beyonds cosmos beyond egos beyond the plains of collective unconscious yet nowhere at home, it’s cold in space without a [...]
Biorhythms and other general information
Posted in General Musings on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CICU: Circaannual rhythms(1 year), Infradian rhythms (weeks think menstrual), Circadian (24hrs) and ultradian(<1hr).
The amount of sleep varies from individuals and across species with some animals such as dolphins having unihemisphere sleep. Generally animals which can hide well and have less predators such as sankes sleep more and animals like koalas and sloths sleep more since [...]
Sleep on dream on (2)
Posted in General Musings on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we have talked about sleep itself let’s talk about how we sleep! The best way to understand this is in terms of the chemicals involved, the pathways and the process.
Chemicals involved:
Orexin and hypocretin are involved in keeping us awake by arousing the midbrain through the ascending arousal pathway (AAP), evidence from this comes [...]
Sleep on Dream on (1)
Posted in General Musings on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is both strangely more productive and satisfying.
Sleep is an active state as demonstrated by EEG recordings which show a roughly synchronised pattern of our 100 billion neurons. Sleep is broken up into stages.
Awake
Alpha waves are 8-12hz and occur more frequently when our eyes are closed. In this state we are in ultimate zen that [...]
I’ve ran out of ways…. (semantic dementia)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
to keep myself studying so I shall blog my notes in these entries.
Beginning with semantic dementia!
Semantic dementia is all about bleeding out words, we lose content words from the specific to the superordinate. From the atypical to the prototypical. This lost unlike HSVE is non category specific, and categories are lost in proportion to [...]
Gideon
Posted in Christian Life on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s sermon (Judges6-8ish) was awesome! God speaking to me..to trust again in Him with all my heart and not in my own self in my own understanding in my pathetic existence but that He will deliver me..so keep my eyes on the spiritual and not the physical manifestation not the world’s standards but on Christ [...]
regrets..rant rant
Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
okay so maybe I’m stressed but argh!..I’m regretting doing so many stupid things.. I regret taking up any leadership roles just because it doesn’t seem like I did a single thing and at the end of it I’m just tired now from all this caring and bothering about how everbody else is doing although my [...]
click
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
something just went click like a wayward bone back in its socket and suddenly I know that through it all, I’ll be alright and I’ve learned all that I needed to get my life back in order which was my intention for studying overseas, the fallacies have been dissolved and from this moment onwards I [...]
awakenings
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wish I knew.. although everything makes sense now and I don’t know if it’s too late