Snakes

Last night I had a horrible dream involving snakes wanting to bite me.  They were all over the place, and I couldn’t walk fast.  You are probably familiar with this, you know, when you dream and you try to move but you can’t, or move really slowly and you feel the frustration as you try to escape, usually from something that is threatening you.  It usually happens because your muscles are paralized while you sleep and you feel that restriction reflected in your dreams.

Anyway, I kept getting bitten, but my slow movements made me realize I was dreaming, so I woke myself up.  When I woke up, I told somebody about the snakes, and they made fun of me.

“But I thought you liked snakes!”

“I wouldn’t be scared of snakes…”

“Snakes? Pfft!”

 I was so angry at this.  Who do they think they are?

But then it turned out I was still dreaming.  I had “woken up” inside another dream.  I hate when that happens.  How do you know when it’s actually over?  I could be dreaming right now.  Maybe my depression symtoms are actually caused because I’m dreaming and my muscles are naturaly paralized so I feel like I need to drag myself everywhere?  

Well it was worth trying.

Lets just say I did wake up.   And in real life, I do love reptiles.  I love iguanas and snakes.  The only reptile that scares me is a small transparent lizard that likes to hang out at nights.  It’s so small and you can see all its organs… I always fear they are going to jump on me.  And indeed, one day, one did.  But that’s another story.

Speaking of snakes, the biggest one in the world discovered so far used to live in Colombia.  Or at least that’s where it was found.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090204/full/news.2009.80.html

58 million years ago, it could have been hanging out around the place where my house is now.  Apparently they loved hot weather.

I like this a lot

Doesn’t earth look cute? I feel like squishing it.

Fine, officer, so technically, I *can* see colors.

Hey, you.  Look at the colors in this strip. Some purplishh blueish tealishh thing. Yah.

Do you think you can arrange them by hue?

The color IQ test. Took it from Sulz

Well I was planning on making an awesome entry about it, but lets be honest: I just wanted to brag that I got a perfect score.* Look!  My cone cells are very very healthy!

So, can you do it? Can you do it? I dare ya! Bwahahha.

Hehe, now, don’t panic if you don’t do well in here, this is just a game. Real color vision tests are more like this. Try it out if you want to.  Interesting fact: Up to 8% of males are colorblind while less than 0.5% of women are.

I’ve covered colors before.  In a very dreamy and abstract way but I did. I love colors.

Now, not all the possible combinations are acceptable. For example I find the image above very unpleasant, so much that I wanted to get rid of it, but since it’s the proof that I did get a perfect score, I won’t.

Instead I’ll post a few images that I do like.  Enjoy.

* (Also, when I googled “color discrimination”, I got a bunch of links about racism that I found inexplicable for about 10 seconds)

And finally, I’ll post the thing I was tagged for in the first place.  “to fish out an old photo, preferably a decade old and taken when I was completely unaware.” Those who know me in facebook have probably seen pictures of me from over a decade ago.  For the rest of you, here goes one!

She killed her! Why?

Have you heard that story about the woman at her mother’s funeral? Apparently it’s very famous and all, but if you haven’t heard it the more fun this will be for you.

Here it is:

A woman attends her mother’s funeral. There she meets a man whom she has never met before. She identifies him as the man of her dreams and immediately falls in love.  However, she never asks for his number or his name.

Some time later she kills her sister.

Why?

You have all the elements to answer it, you don’t have to elaborate complex theories.  Just say what you think happened and LATER look up the answer.  Don’t cheat.  I want to read your hypothesis before you find out the truth.

Note: If you HAVE heard it, there’s no acceptable reason for you to come here and post “Ahh old riddle, the answer is obviously —-, you’re an idiot and live under a rock, everyone knows this one.“.  The fun is ruined for you already you bitter person, stay away from the rest.

For the answer as it was planned when the riddle was formulated, turn the page…

Ms Bright Side

I gotta accept that, despite how long this month has been, a lot of good things have happened.

I have a huge smile on my face.

*dies* Ahh, Mr Brandon F looks so good in this vid…

It is not the cause of the smile of course, I just had to say that.  Just my brain going ADD.

Cool Obsession

Not much to report.

Depression has temporarily subsided because of a current obsession.

I found a “God doesn’t exist” debate going over facebook.  Of course, me being me, I entered and read the whole thing.  As you must know, I’m an atheist, and I also love learning about these things.  The debate itself is not the best, and the people who have some reasoning skills are few, but that’s not important.  The debate only gave me ideas for stuff to read online, and in the past 2 days I’ve learned a bunch of things about evolution, quantum physics and phylosophy.   One of my favorite places has been: Talk Origin.  I’m devouring it. I can’t get enough.