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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

It's been said that humans only use up to 3% of their actual brain capacity. This means that the rest of our brain power goes into perpetual hibernation, or is spent on myriad basal drone-functioning activity.. Maybe that is why our brain gets hyperactive when governed by our subconscious, but instead of gaining academically or even practically useful knowledge we get nonsensical dreams instead. It's not fair and certainly not our fault if humans are hardwired to be dull!!

So many things around me involve the subconscious lately; Inception the movie sparked off a massive debate with my dear classmates(dismal term) today, and Microserfs the book by Douglas Coupland that I am currently reading talks about the subconscious a lot.. I take this as a providential sign that I should try to activate my subconscious and utilize the other 97% of my brain!
With God's will, I have decided to start by improving the speed of which my brain makes associations with the information it receives. I throw out a noun and then immediately conceive two associations from it. For example,
Blue: sea, ocean
Leaf: green, sunflower

But then I realized quickly that the associations I make within 0.2 seconds are all largely visual, and well that's... sort of cheating..............
Compensating on speed of reflex and putting slightly more conscious effort, here's what I came up with:
Apple: George washington, oxidizing protection
Electron Transport Chain: office hierarchy , 6 degrees of separation

This sounds silly and I'm not going to defend myself anyway because I don't know what I will achieve with this "brain stimulation", and also because this entire thing was conceived out of boredom whilst walking my dog.. Ha ha ha

she's not here @

5:52 PM