ADD09: R2 The Sound of An Idea (518 hits)
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Submitted by katy (View user info) at 2009-01-30 14:30:28 EST
This isn't going to be fiction. This is going to be fact and speculation. It's 2:14 and my lunch break is over in a few minutes. It will be between 100 and 550 words though. I'm just going to ramble.
I wonder if Einstein made sounds when he was thinking. Like, did he lick his lips? Did he scratch his head? Did he tap his pencil? Maybe he crumpled and uncrumpled paper for hours on end. Maybe he went for a walk so the only sounds would be his feet shuffling along pavement or or through dirt. So the sounds of his ideas were scratchy dirt sounds rubbed on leather soles.
Maybe the brain makes a sound when neurons fire their little electrical impulses. We've had a pretty dry winter so I can say with confidence that electricity does make a noise even on little tiny scales. When I shock the crap out of myself walking across a carpet and reaching for a door knob it makes a sound. When you play with a balloon or a blanket binding in the dark the green static electricity makes a sound like tingling feels. So maybe the tiniest of electrical shocks in our brains make an audible click, if we just had something that could hear it.
I have lots of ideas right before I fall asleep. A lot of people do actually. The other day something weird happened and I closed my eyes and I basically went in REM while still conscious. That was very odd. My eyes were racing back and forth beneath my lids and I couldn't stop them. I didn't even want to open my eyes because I'd never had this happen before. So I was seeing things like the edge of dreams but I was awake. My eyeballs made a squishy noise as they moved and I could hear my heart.
If the mind is deprived of sensory input it makes its own. Sound-proof headphones and diffuse white light apparently can make you trip. I haven't tried it yet but it's on the to do list.
Lots of people think while they exercise. Or I guess while they exert themselves. So huffing and puffing is just an idea being filled out while the mind tries to distract itself from the timer on the treadmill. People think on the toilet too. That's exertion. I mean while you're sitting there waiting, why not?
So maybe the next time you hear your Uncle Joe let out a loud fart that echoes off the toilet bowl and rebounds into your aural canals he just solved the problem of cold fusion.
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Submitted by hellish (user info) at 2009-02-01 08:22:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-01-31 14:56:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-01-31 14:55:51 EST (#)
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sorry
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-01-31 07:52:20 EST (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-31 04:13:03 EST (#)
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where is my scarf
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-31 02:11:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2009-01-30 22:09:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-01-30 21:11:24 EST (#)
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Gutless +1 giving asslick, below. . .
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2009-01-30 21:01:17 EST (#)
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Pedo Alert!, below.
Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-01-30 20:13:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-01-30 17:19:16 EST (#)
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In scourge's defense, you try rhyming something with 'girl', 'woman', 'broad', 'skirt', 'chick', or any other euphamism for 'female' without being rude.
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Girl= swirl
Woman= bigman
Broad= sod
skirt= blurt
chick= slick
NOT RUDE, YOU DUMBSHIT!!!!111one one !!!11!!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-30 18:01:12 EST (#)
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lol @ below
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-01-30 17:19:16 EST (#)
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In scourge's defense, you try rhyming something with 'girl', 'woman', 'broad', 'skirt', 'chick', or any other euphamism for 'female' without being rude.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:53:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:36:51 EST (#)
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katy, katy
she's our something
if she can't something
something something
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doesn't even know i'm a girl :(
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:39:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:42:17 EST (#)
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If you drop a bass-boom blast of gas while sittin pretty on the john, and the vibrations make your balls vibrate, is your bop bag ringing internally with the music of the sphincter?
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I do not like the sound of that idea.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:37:20 EST (#)
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Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-30 15:04:58 EST (#)
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Yes, I am something of a stoner, Snark.
And I wrote MLST when it should have been MSLT.
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Hey now! I don't want to be messing with no reefer freaks!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:36:51 EST (#)
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katy, katy
she's our something
if she can't something
something something
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-01-30 16:21:20 EST (#)
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I envy you your nocturnal hallucinations. I no longer have any, that I can remember. I don't sleep well, either. But I can fart, so maybe there's hope for me yet.
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-30 15:04:58 EST (#)
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Yes, I am something of a stoner, Snark.
And I wrote MLST when it should have been MSLT.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:56:00 EST (#)
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Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:49:40 EST (#)
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I have lots of ideas right before I fall asleep. A lot of people do actually. The other day something weird happened and I closed my eyes and I basically went in REM while still conscious.
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You might have low-grade narcolepsy. You should get a MLST (multi-sleep latency test) stat. Essentially narcoleptics enter into REM sleep quicker than normal sleepers; I suffer from a very mild version of it which mostly affects me behind the wheel of road trips. I try not to drive longer than two hours at a time, but I've fallen completely asleep within 30 minutes of driving and not known it until I hit the rumble strips.
Also, my ex boyfriend's eyes used to make a rather loud squeaking-squishy sound whenever he rubbed them. Used to freak me out.
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actually it generally takes me at least an hour to fall asleep. i'm an insomniac. that is the only time that weird REM thing ever happened. i have an easier time staying awake for two days straight than i do falling asleep in under an hour.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:52:06 EST (#)
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Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:49:40 EST (#)
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I have lots of ideas right before I fall asleep. A lot of people do actually. The other day something weird happened and I closed my eyes and I basically went in REM while still conscious.
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You might have low-grade narcolepsy. You should get a MLST (multi-sleep latency test) stat. Essentially narcoleptics enter into REM sleep quicker than normal sleepers; I suffer from a very mild version of it which mostly affects me behind the wheel of road trips. I try not to drive longer than two hours at a time, but I've fallen completely asleep within 30 minutes of driving and not known it until I hit the rumble strips.
Also, my ex boyfriend's eyes used to make a rather loud squeaking-squishy sound whenever he rubbed them. Used to freak me out.
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Stoner
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:49:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I have lots of ideas right before I fall asleep. A lot of people do actually. The other day something weird happened and I closed my eyes and I basically went in REM while still conscious.
********************
You might have low-grade narcolepsy. You should get a MLST (multi-sleep latency test) stat. Essentially narcoleptics enter into REM sleep quicker than normal sleepers; I suffer from a very mild version of it which mostly affects me behind the wheel of road trips. I try not to drive longer than two hours at a time, but I've fallen completely asleep within 30 minutes of driving and not known it until I hit the rumble strips.
Also, my ex boyfriend's eyes used to make a rather loud squeaking-squishy sound whenever he rubbed them. Used to freak me out.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:43:19 EST (#)
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I spend most of my time trying not to think.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-01-30 14:42:17 EST (#)
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If you drop a bass-boom blast of gas while sittin pretty on the john, and the vibrations make your balls vibrate, is your bop bag ringing internally with the music of the spheres?