The Power of Perception

It's so rainy and glum out today. I love it. I'd love it even more if I were curled up on the couch with a cup of hot whiskey apple cider watching whatever cheesy horror movie I could find buuut this'll do. It really will.

Shit. Yesterday I got mind fucked so many times. I was watching this documentary called "What the Bleep". It's about the power of perception and the study of possibility. Crazy CRAZY stuff. What's so cool about it though is that it's a whole field dedicated to the not knowing- dedicated to the happily uncertain. It will totally make you question your whole existence. One of the segments talked about this case study where they would hook people up to an EEG so they could study their brain waves and what have you. They would show these people different pictures of objects (like donkeys and bananas and stuff) and watch the different regions of the brain light up. Then they would tell that same person to close their eyes and simply think of the image and what they found was that the same regions of their brain would light up meaning the same process of analyzing and interpreting sensory information had taken place regardless of whether it was a concrete object or just a thought. Then they went into all this stuff about what thoughts could be made of and stuff. That in itself is a whole other mind fuck that my brain can barely wrap itself around. But basically how do you really know what reality is? Is it what you are seeing with your eyes or is your perception what constitutes reality? If both have the same results then it seems pretty indistinguishable- somewhat impossible to know for sure whats relevant and exists. I'm sure it's pretty frightening for some to imagine that everything they've ever known could just be the way we humans have been conditioned to perceive things. Simply a technical way for the brain to retrieve, interpret and store data- our life and this world being the outcome. I mean, some people live their whole lives believing there is a magical man in the sky who knows their every thought and watches their every move... pretty fucking desperately creepy if you ask me. So, in all honesty, this theory isn't that far- fetched. Not to mention, it's backed with a hell of a lot more plausible, if not respected, evidence than the bible or Christianity is.
Anyhoo, sorry for butchering that explanation of quantum mechanics. I've done it absolutely no justice so go ahead and give it a little look see.


Is it terrible that all I've really wanted to do since I woke up is sip on whiskey, smoke cigarettes and talk about nothing? Ooooh Brooke, girl, where you at?