It is I! Is it I?

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Notes When time is running out and I don’t feel ready for an upcoming exam.

“Dreams come from your soul and are intended to help you progress along your life path. In sleep the focus of the physical world and the body is on hold and during this period your soul has a perfect opportunity to dialogue with your conscious mind… or so it would appear. The problem here is that the subconscious never sleeps. Think of the subconscious like a faithful dog always on guard to protect its master. Your soul asks the conscious mind to make a change to some aspect of functioning in order to avoid a particular undesirable outcome”

http://www.emaxhealth.com/64/823.html

Titanic

Evidently that’s false because I woke up an hour ago having had a ludicrous dream. I always thought people dreamt about the ongoings of the day but never once did I think or speak about the Titanic yesterday. Funny how the story that was dictated in my head was about tailoring leather clothes, shoes, and gloves in the Titanic. WTF. What the fuck is a leather tailor??!!

Ah yes, then Clifford and I had a spitting competition… though on hindsight that seems pretty plausible.

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Apparently some “scientists” have decided that smoking doesn’t have lots of benefits, at least if you’re one of those folks opposed to cancer and offending people. But it seems that, in the process of destroying everything else, nicotine has some beneficial effect on the brain.

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have actually discovered that the nicotine found in cigarettes enhances both learning and memory. Since learning and memory are key areas of loss in Alzheimer’s patients, researchers tested nicotine patches on elderly people with Alzheimer’s, and found that after regular doses, they were two times faster and significantly more consistent at answering memory-based questions than the control group.

The researchers found that the nicotine was able to do this by improving communication among the learning centers in the brain. But, chances are that, if you still remember the beginning of this sentence, you probably don’t have Alzheimer’s. So this doesn’t apply to regular people, right?

Well, good news! Researchers pumped nicotine into adolescent mice, then tested them on spatial learning and memory later in their adult life and found that those who had received small, steady levels of nicotine learned faster and performed significantly better — months later. Not only that, but they discovered that mice are adorable with a hacking cough.

All of this is starting to make sense. Think about the smartest people you know: Weren’t they always smoking, while dancing, while wearing a scowl on their face? While using electrodes and a car battery to shock the shit out of their heads? Oh, we guess we haven’t gotten to that one yet …

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