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→ 24 Apr 12 at 10 pm
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How to Stop Complaining About Your Life, Thought Catalog (via prima-volta)
(via prima-volta)
"Do not think in terms of “have to” or “need to.” You literally do not “have to” go to work, respond to someone’s email, or clean the bathtub. View what you are about to do as what you “want to” do. If you are unable to view something you are about to do as what you “want to” do, then don’t do it. Why would you have dinner with your co-worker if you don’t want to? If your answer is “because my co-workers will think I’m weird if I don’t” then you “want to” have dinner with your co-worker because you want your co-workers to think you’re normal. It isn’t required that your co-workers not think you’re weird. If you fall off a building you “have to” move in a downward manner, due to gravity, that can be calculated in an equation. The other physical laws of the universe are also required. Nothing else is required."
Me at school
me:
i hate all of you
me:
stop screaming you saw your friend yesterday
me:
holy fuck walk faster
me:
get smarter idiot
me:
maybe if i hit my head on my desk enough times ill die
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→ 16 Apr 12 at 12 am
→ 16 Apr 12 at 12 am
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
I stumbled across this while looking for a book for my cousin’s new baby. I was so intrigued by the whole idea. On each left page there was words written in braille and then again in white text. It was the description of colors, according to how a blind child would experience. On the right there were raised etchings of what each page was describing. It’s so beautiful.
One page in particular that really caught my attention was the one describing the color red. It talked about how red is how it feels to bite into a ripe strawberry, or the stinging on your knee after you fall down. Blue was the feeling of sunshine on your face.It’s just so astounding that someone managed this, as the idea of how to describe a color to someone who has no reference has always fascinated and baffled me.
(via alllforbelieving)
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→ 16 Apr 12 at 12 am
→ 16 Apr 12 at 12 am
The Quietest Place on Earth Will Drive You Insane Within 45 Minutes
There’s a small room in Minnesota that blocks out 99% of all external sound. That’s an impressive number! Also impressive: nobody can take more than 45 minutes alone in the room before they go nuts.The Daily Mail describes Orfield Labs’ anechoic chamber—perfect for making extremely sensitive audio measurements. But also perfect for sending you into a hallucinatory hell so hellacious you’ll need a chair:
‘When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. ‘In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.’ And this is a very disorientating experience. Mr Orfield explained that it’s so disconcerting that sitting down is a must. He said: ‘How you orient yourself is through sounds you hear when you walk. In the anechnoic chamber, you don’t have any cues. You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you’re in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair.’
That sounds swell. Just the serene quiet of you, your thoughts, and the unceasing pounding of the human heart. Your brain can’t take it, apparently, and begins to fabricate sounds that aren’t really there—completely delusional noises meant to block out the churning of your own horrid biomass.
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I’m creeped out after reading this.
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