peaches

i'm really into this song. and, uhhh...babe?

its a start,

i wasn't overly impressed with the self portraits i took this weekend, but its a start. i bought red lipstick and i think i'm addicted. i cant stop putting it on for some reason..

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tonight i took some self-portraits. i hope they turn out well. this is just a digital shot i took while light metering for my mamiya.

successful telepathy?

i may have had my first successful attempt at dream telepathy. for weeks i have been trying to send lauren thoughts of us riding a whale. i never specified what kind of whale and i usually fell asleep before i could think about it very hard. last night i knew lauren was sleeping, so i thought really hard about a whale. i fell asleep before i could think about us riding it in detail. then this morning lauren told me, very excitedly, that she had had a dream that we saw an orca whale flying. it jumped out of the water, and then started flying. when she expressed her bemusement to me i acted like this sort of thing happened all the time.

coincidence, or telepathy?

moving eye witnesses

"virtually everybody has at least four dream periods a night. they occur at the approximate rate of one every ninety minutes. the dream periods start out as short, about ten minutes or less, and end up in the morning considerably longer and sometimes lasting half an hour or more. this last dream is generally the one we tend to remember in the morning and is liable to be more elaborate than the earlier dreams. of the many variables affecting dreaming, age has perhaps the strongest effect. studies of newborn children have shown that they spend about seventy percent of their sleeping time in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, while adults dream only about twenty percent of their sleeping time. as old age approaches, this percent diminishes even further."

soon i'll explain REMs in more detail.

part 2: experimental studies

"carington postulated that telepathic interchanges were facilitated by common associations between the two minds. his 'association theory' held that if an idea or word (so-called k-object) were presented to a person who was in telepathic rapport with another person (that is, having a shared consciousness), then the second person would have mental associations with the 'k-object.' tell the first person the word dog and the second person might think of bark, bite, or bone as if the two persons were of a single mind."

finally making new work,

here for more: http://flickr.com/photos/monetrobbins/
more to come soon.