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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
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A moving ceiling fan actually makes a room warmer. Motion = Heat. It's only the effect of air moving across skin that generates the sensation of coolness. I cannot stand being in a room with light breezes, as it aggravates/triggers facial pain with me (trigeminal neuralgia).
I also have very acute hearing, so either need a very quiet environment to work/read, or I need to have on headphones.
I like walks on the beach. I live nowhere near any beaches.
I've read forever, and like John Carter, have always been in my 30s, apparently. Oh, I know I was a child once, but was always the child thinking "sheesh, what a bunch of CHILDREN... I think I'll go play chess with Dad." Or, more often, "Sheesh, what a bunch of children. I shall rule them."
That said, I've spent most of my life trying to consciously recapture a "childlike" state of mind. I mean, really. It's a very powerful mind that can learn to walk, talk, read, and do magical things. I mean that... when I'm in that wonderful waking dream state, and my mind hovers around that state, I remember, truly remember, that when I was a boy I could fly.
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Once again Taylor we are much alike.
I think sometimes I am a different sort of being. I think I was born 30, but with a really active imagination. So, while I really could not suffer children for the most part (most of what they did struck me as stupid and pointless ... and I'd rather go read, thank you very much), my mind, with the aid of books, could take me anywhere.
Then, when I was about 8 .... or close to 8 ... I started playing what I called "The Game." I played The Game whenever I was too scared to go to sleep, or later in life when stress would be a problem. What I later discovered is that The Game allowed me to retain a lot of memories from my childhood that I think would have been otherwise lost.
How to play The Game. First, you do your best to relax, and in your mind you go to another place. It has to be a place you've been before. Then, in your mind still ... you open your eyes. You don't "try" so much as you relax yourself until you can see with great detail what's in the scene before you. If it's a room, then note the color of the walls, the placement of the furniture and doors, color of the furniture. Focus on whatever wall you are facing (or whatever direction you are facing if you are outside) until you can picture that view perfectly, until you can walk up to a cabinet, open the cabinet door and actually see what's in there. Then, turn and do the next wall or view.
If there are people, then picture them and listen to what they are saying. But, do that after you have the room or the scene well in your mind.
Whenever I was just freaked as a kid, I would take myself to Disneyland ... go on the rides, and have a great time.
Much later in life, I fell during a race (snow ski) and injured my back pretty badly. In order to cope with the pain, the doctor put me in a bio-feedback program. The funny thing was, at my first session, the therapist was fairly blown away at how well I could do the drills he was putting me through. You know ... to make your hand hot and such.
I told him about The Game, and it turns out I'd been doing bio-feedback exercises for about 20 years without knowing it.