What's on your mind now?

[pianowolfi]

I don't think I understand that about not having anything on your mind   but it just sounds really scarry to me... for some time I was even afraid to go to sleep because it just seemed soooo scarry that for so many hours I won't know anything and won't think about anything and won't remember anything   . well now I'm not afraid anymore it just bothers me sometimes that I have to sleep so much I mean if I sleep 8 hours I'm sleepy and tired all day   I have to sleep like 9 or 10 hours!!! My friend says that people who are very intelligent need very little sleep (like 4 hours or something) ... so I guess Im just really really stupid... but I don't care!!
 

Oh my . What friend did tell you this bullshit? I don't believe that at all. People in your age need as much sleep as you, basta And right you are that you don't care
You need the time-out, knowing nothing of nothing, to recover, to recreate, to be a full person. That's just how we function as humans. Don't be afraid of it

Btw did you know that the more intelligent a being is, the more repeats it takes them to learn a complex operation? I learnt that at driving school...

[Bob]

I still like 10 hours a night.  Not that that happens.

I know one person who functions on 4 hours of a sleep a night.  Functions being the keyword.  He also dozes off a lot during the day (like during lessons).

I read somewhere Mozart got 9 hours or 11 hours.  I'm blanking on which.  It wasn't a low number though.

[Bob]

I'm sensing another shift in the forum members.  People leaving.  New names showing up.

[m19834]

What is Maestro's? I would almost think (sarcastically) it was Toscanini's house.

No no, it's not sarcastic !   It's what students in Horowitz's younger days (and in earlier years than that) used to call their teachers, out of respect and honor . 

But the last flight I was on, the connecting flight back home, in walked a former teacher of three years. I greeted him in warm excitement and he recognized me as someone he'd seen in the hall, but could not remember who I was...some influence I have!  

I'm sorry that happened to you, that's sad 

[thalbergmad]

I want a hug.

Thal

[ahinton]

I want a hug.

There must be someone on here with sufficiently long arms who would be only too pleased to oblige!

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

bollox

[Bob]

High five! 

[littletune]

well today (and yesterday) I slept 10 hours and I'm still a little sleepy but it's a really sleepy day
and I had a really funny and weird dream (but i don't have time to write about it now cause I have to go to doggy school soon )

[littletune]

oh... a hug!



(well maybe it's not a whole hug... just a half hug... but it's better in a way because this kind of hug can last longer I think  )

but maybe if you really need a very huge hug you can get something like this

[Bob]

lang lang playing flight of the bumblebee...on an iPad


I think there's a few directions that could go.  Seems a little bit symbolic.

[pianowolfi]

oh... a hug!



(well maybe it's not a whole hug... just a half hug... but it's better in a way because this kind of hug can last longer I think  )

but maybe if you really need a very huge hug you can get something like this

As so often, very wise words from you. And a very very cute picture!

[littletune]

Thank you!!

[oxy60]

That drawing is more than just cute. Littletune has been able to create perspective. The viewer is drawn into the picture and focuses on the hug even though that is a very small part of the total. The choice of subject matter is universal.

For just a moment let the rest of us think of how we might portray this hug in response to Thal's request.

[thalbergmad]

That is a very good drawing and rather moving in a cutish sort of way.

Thal

[m19834]

I want a hug.

Thal

I know you already got a hug, but why not two hugs ?  *gives Thaly a bone crushing hug*

[goldentone]

There can never be enough hugs.

[concerto_love]

arrr... algebra test on Wednesday... Need money to buy new bicycle... And how to say sorry for my dear friend, Cai before she go far away this June to another school 

[thalbergmad]

I know you already got a hug, but why not two hugs ?  *gives Thaly a bone crushing hug*

Thanks, very kind.

The world definately needs more hugs.

Thal

[ahinton]

bollox

No,Thal; arms; it's very hard to give anyone a hug using "bollox", however they may be spelt.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Thanks, very kind.

The world definately needs more hugs.

Thal

There you are! Told you so! You now have a big hug from Karli. If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!

Getting a copy of the Concerto (1947) by Leslie Bridgewater as required for CPS project GB.

Thal

[orangesodaking]

I want to run the 400 meter and 800 meter dashes faster.

[goldentone]

There you are! Told you so! You now have a big hug from Karli. If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!

Best,

Alistair

Alistair, if you and Thal hugged, it would usher in world peace.

[Bob]

That could be a sign of the coming end of the world too.   

[ahinton]

Alistair, if you and Thal hugged, it would usher in world peace.

In principle, one might reasonably assume that this would surely depend on whom I hugged and whom Thal hugged, were it not for the fact that I don't in any case quite see "world peace" being ushered in as a direct and immediate consequence of one person hugging another...

Best,

Alistair

[concerto_love]

 

[ahinton]

I hope that you have a good dentist...

Best,

Alistair

[littletune]

That is a very good drawing and rather moving in a cutish sort of way.

Thal

Thank you   

That drawing is more than just cute. Littletune has been able to create perspective. The viewer is drawn into the picture and focuses on the hug even though that is a very small part of the total. The choice of subject matter is universal.

Really I did that? cool!    thank you!

[Bob]

Mr. Optimism
https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100426/ts_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking;_ylt=AhNKKqUNV6hzOEIOhqZRvPkDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTNkdXQyYnNjBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDQyNi9zY2llbmNlYXN0cm9ub215ZXh0cmF0ZXJyZXN0cmlhbGhhd2tpbmcEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNhbGllbnNtYXlleGk-

I don't put much into his opinion about what aliens would do if they came here.  And I don't quite see the point of the announcement, except it's kind of funny.

I thought the replies were amusing.  Him getting shot down by the masses on the internet.

[concerto_love]

I hope that you have a good dentist...

Best,

Alistair

wheeew, danke... 

How's your teeth, guyz  ?

[littletune]

Mr. Optimism
https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100426/ts_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking

I think it's kinda funny that I posted those alien snails yesterday, just a little before that warning about aliens  (i mean before I knew about it).

I think it would be VERY sad if some beings were so smart that they would figure out how to travel into space and travel so far, but they wouldn't care about other beings at all I wouldn't even wanna live in such a universe!

[Bob]

I was thinking about that today -- First contact... or something like it.  We see something that's intelligent, possibly see something that lets us know they are aware of us... and then they keep travelling along. 


The alien snails just showed up here.  No reason.  Just showed up.  And leave sometime.  These are snails so advanced they don't have a purpose anymore.  They just are.

[Bob]

Wonders of technology.

This girl's playing with herself.  And a bassoon.

[m19834]

Wonders of technology.

This girl's playing with herself.  And a bassoon.

argh !  Girl, NEVER wear shorter than a knee length skirt/dress on stage !!

[Bob]

You could take that idea and multiply it.  A whole ensemble of yourself.


What would be really freaky is if they could have another person actually playing somewhere (possibly through the internet), insert the 'live' performers face over the projected performer, and then at the end have the projected performer actually respond to something in the live environment -- Let people think it's a recording that's being projected and then freak them out.

[Bob]

I wonder what it would be like to be the most interesting man in the world.

Probably wouldn't be bored.

(Bob wonders if that guy is actually drunk and suddenly thinks everything is interesting and that he himself is interesting.)

[Bob]

I'm thinking if aliens did come to Earth they might try to fit in with humans.  Maybe they couldn't quite *perfectly*  fit in though -- Their bodies might be weakened do to Earth's gravity.  They might not have vocal cords to speak with.  They would probably have to roll around in motorized wheelchairs and use a computer for speech.  They would probably be very smart though and interested in astronomy and physics.  Yes.  They would probably try to throw everyone off by saying there are no aliens here but if there were, they would attack us. 

[littletune]

Why do I keep having bad dreams now?? Since that argument with my dad on friday I just keep having bad dreams every night!!  that's five nights already! and I don't dream the same thing, I always dream something different... but it's always something scary and weird. And today was the weirdest for sure!!! I dreamt that my grandparents died... (in real life they all died already, one before I was even born, and two a few years ago of cancer and heart attack, and I don't know anything about one). so in my dream two of my grandparents died (don't really know which ones) and they were just there at home... we just left them there (I think for quite a long time).... and meanwhile I had to learn to read something and I had a teacher for that and I had to read outloud and I started reading but I just couldn't, I just couldn't even read one sentence, I read like two words and then I got lost and I didn't know where I was and I just didn't know how to read anymore (which was really scary too because I know how to read since I was 4 and that's one thing I really CAN do). So... after I realized I just couldn't read anymore me and my mum (or at least I thought she was my mum) went out.... and.... "my mum" had this bags in her hands..... and in those bags were dead bodies of my grandparents  ..... and she was just going to throw the bags in the trash can!!!!  And she said if I could take the bags and go throw them into the trash can. And when I thought about that I just got shivers and I just said Oh no no no no no no no nooooo I can't do that!!! And so she went to throw them....... And I said I don't think thats allowed and I think she said something like that  noone will find out anyway... and so then she said she had to go buy some clothes or something  ... and we went to the store and it was closed already but she just went in anyway and by then I already knew she was not my mum... (I thought it was someone from a tv series) and I was looking at her and she took her sunglasses off and....... I realized she didn't even have a face!!!! all she had was something like a little circle with a mouth and nothing else aroud it!! just nothing!!!! and then I think I woke up.... and I just couldn't get the dead bodies and mouth without a face out off my mind.....
so now I wrote that cause I thought maybe that way it would go out off my mind....!

[pianowolfi]

Why do I keep having bad dreams now?? Since that argument with my dad on friday I just keep having bad dreams every night!!  that's five nights already! and I don't dream the same thing, I always dream something different... but it's always something scary and weird. And today was the weirdest for sure!!! I dreamt that my grandparents died... (in real life they all died already, one before I was even born, and two a few years ago of cancer and heart attack, and I don't know anything about one). so in my dream two of my grandparents died (don't really know which ones) and they were just there at home... we just left them there (I think for quite a long time).... and meanwhile I had to learn to read something and I had a teacher for that and I had to read outloud and I started reading but I just couldn't, I just couldn't even read one sentence, I read like two words and then I got lost and I didn't know where I was and I just didn't know how to read anymore (which was really scary too because I know how to read since I was 4 and that's one thing I really CAN do). So... after I realized I just couldn't read anymore me and my mum (or at least I thought she was my mum) went out.... and.... "my mum" had this bags in her hands..... and in those bags were dead bodies of my grandparents   ..... and she was just going to throw the bags in the trash can!!!!   And she said if I could take the bags and go throw them into the trash can. And when I thought about that I just got shivers and I just said Oh no no no no no no no nooooo I can't do that!!! And so she went to throw them....... And I said I don't think thats allowed and I think she said something like that  noone will find out anyway... and so then she said she had to go buy some clothes or something   ... and we went to the store and it was closed already but she just went in anyway and by then I already knew she was not my mum... (I thought it was someone from a tv series) and I was looking at her and she took her sunglasses off and....... I realized she didn't even have a face!!!! all she had was something like a little circle with a mouth and nothing else aroud it!! just nothing!!!! and then I think I woke up.... and I just couldn't get the dead bodies and mouth without a face out off my mind.....
so now I wrote that cause I thought maybe that way it would go out off my mind....!

To have nightmares after a conflict, after the acute occurrence of a serious problem or the like is completely normal, I think.
It might be better not to overrate the content and storyline of such dreams. They are actually only a sort of mirror of your state of mind, which might be temporarily out of balance.

To get the balance back, time is the best doctor, I guess. And a good talk with your dad and mom.  

[thalbergmad]

time is the best doctor

Wise words sir, i say wise.

Thal

[Bob]

Time might be the best doctor, but it also kills *all* of its patients.

[ahinton]

Time might be the best doctor, but it also kills *all* of its patients.

But all doctors' patients die in the end anyway (or at least that has always been the case so far).

Best,

Alistair

[Bob]

The erhu is on my mind.

&NR=1

[littletune]

I wish I could go swimming!!

[littletune]

Time might be the best doctor, but it also kills *all* of its patients.

Well I don't know if time kills them... Isn't it more like that when beings die of old age their genes kill them ... or something like that. It's like it's kinda programmed in the genes how long someone will live. So you couldn't really blame time for that... It's like we have this self-destruct program inside of ourselves... What if some aliens made that program and put it inside of our genes!?    well I guess then we could try to find them and somehow get the code that would stop the self-destruct program and just stop it!  yes maybe that's what we should do!   

[oxy60]

We are born with the seeds of our own destruction..

[Bob]

The future.

[biscuitroxy12]

Riding a horse on the beach. Galloping and eating a warm brownie LOL!

[dss62467]

Falafel with tzatziki.