When I'm half asleep, my mind does weird things. (It also does weird things when it's awake, like thinking that popcorn is toast, but that's another story). As an example, I offer you the following story, which took place yesterday.
The setting: school, a class, watching the movie version of Mrs. Warren's Profession.
I was having a lot of trouble staying awake, or even keeping my eyes open, due to the fact that they hurt a lot, probably because of how tired I was. So, I occasionally closed my eyes, and drifted off into a dream-state for a few seconds, until I realized that my body was moving around due to the dreams (eg, jerking forward to click a button on a computer interface), and shook myself awake. I don't remember a lot of what was going on, but the weirdest example is what I do remember, which is good.
A way to expand the interface for an address-book - colors to denote relationships. Thus, a name with a red background would be someone who the owner of the book was in a relationship with, orange would be friendship, black would be dislike, white would be suicide, green would be homicide, and so forth. This data would be scrapped from various websites, such as Facebook, or input manually by the owner.
The last two in that list sound a bit out of place, right? Apparently, this system would interface with shock collars / kill switches on iPhones. When someone marked as white was called, they would explode, or otherwise die. When someone marked as green was called, they would start killing everyone around them - I don't remember how that part was supposed to work.
And, as I had forgotten the term address-book, I though for a while that it was called a jellybean, perhaps due to the way the colors looked (neon pastel? The red was like glowing red jello, I remember that much). I caught this before I started talking to people about it, though, and presented it as another funny part of the story, thus manageding to avoid more weirdness, which is probably good.
Like I said, my mind works strangely when I'm tired.
1 comment:
It doesn't work strangely in the sense that it works unlike other people's, it just works strangely in the sense that it's not what you'd think/expect.
I'm pretty sure that when you're tired, your cortex is less active/functional and therefore the creativity from the limbic system is freer.
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