This is what i think » 2004 » May

For whatever reason, live journal finally let me customize my interface, and now it looks 1 million times better. What do you think?

Ok, i thought this was a neat idea:
I was glancing through Erin’s (the sexy RHF DoFD) live journal and saw she had some cool things she put up there, so i’m gonna do one. I’m going to put all of my music on one playlist and write down the first ten songs it plays… here goes:

(note, this is only the music from my laptop computer, which is 350 songs)

1. Eve 6- Think twice
2. Nine Days- Revolve (good song, hadn’t heard it in a while)
3. Pat McGee Band- Beautiful Ways
4. N.E.R.D.- Provider
5. Something Corporate- Space
6. 50 Cent- Stunt 101
7. John Mayer- Sucker (good song, i felt that way for a while)
8. Jet- Are you gonna be my girl?
9. John Mayer- No Such Thing
10. Musiq- Half Crazy

I just want to note that when I listen to music on my computer I always play only like the most 5-10 recent songs that i downloaded, so listening to these listed is quite an accomplishment

Time Perception:
Have you ever thought about it? Anytime I see something with “bullet-time” (seen in movies like the matrix or tv shows like smallville) I think about it. I believe that as humans, our brains are hardwired to think at certain speeds. There really is no way for us to determine:

do we think faster or slower than other people?
how do other people perceive time?

Humans only use about 10% of their brains. If we were able to condition ourselves mentally in such a way that we could change our perception of time we would be able to do so much more. Now, i’m not talking about dodging bullets and crap like that. Those are physically limitations of our bodies, not our minds. I’m thinking of how to type this up, but it’s pretty complicated because it’s basically a loop, and indeterminable because you can’t compare it to anything. If our minds thought faster, it would be like everything around us appears in slow-motion but we think at the same speed… yet if that’s how we always thought it wouldnt be slow motion for us, that would simply be how we perceive it.

Understand?

I don’t.

But if we are hardwired to think at a set speed, is our average speed for our generation faster than that of our parents… grandparents… ancestors? I would think so because we have more information at our fingertips. We live in a faster, more “information-rich” world and would have to adapt to the pressure with which we operate at an earlier age. But is this determined from childhood and set, or can we change it?

Then again who says that it’s a set speed at which we think? How often do we find ourselves in positions where, for instance, 1 PM lasts forever (read back a few posts) or, “time flys when we’re having fun”

I just thought of something: If you look at this from a scientific standpoint (yeah i know, isn’t that what we’ve been doing?) My 1PM instance (among others) all occur when I’m working… when my mind is actively involved in doing something. If time flys when we’re having fun, I believe that when we have fun our minds are not actively involved, essentially they slow down (we don’t slow down, our minds do) The reason 1PM took forever was because I was doing a lot of work quickly, my mind was really busy, yet time was going slow.

the reason this blog is so log is because i’m listening to all the songs above and typing too

I’m gonna upload some pictures though, so that will be a nice addition

Thanks to those that comment

~Martz