The Snail Shell

So there are "board games". Unfortunately, when you say "board games", somehow Scrabble, Monopoly, Settlers, Risk, Bang!...

A day after lucid dream 3 (so, night before last) came lucid dream 4. A day! As with programming, rapid iteration == fun. In this one, I r...

- I was flying around the galaxy, until I realized I wanted to talk to some people, so I said "the great thing about all these stars an...

On my research blog here . Somewhat interesting! No linear correlation between how long I slept and how awake I feel. Nor between the Wake...

Let's assume we only care about the "stomach" variable. I have 9 days where I ate grains, and 19 days where I ate no grains. O...

Linear regression between mood and energy mood = 0.825810375087 * energy + -0.0729595387559 r=0.758294792793, p=1.88373127793e-06, stderr=...

I've come across two sources since my last post about happiness that make me want to discuss it more: 1. " The Geography of Bliss ...

Notes from this time: - Looking at your hands or feet to stabilize the dream really worked. It felt like they came into focus, and I was ab...

God, here I am talking about a Tim Ferriss book again. Whatever. The deal was "buy the 4-hour body, get the 4-hour workweek pdf free,...

So I've managed to graph my personal data of the last month, and here are some preliminary results. On days 9-27 I ate no grains; on day...

It happened the night before last.  First, some background: I'm reading " Lucid Dreaming " by Robert Waggoner, and it's se...

I thought he was just another of those old dudes my dad had records of. He's a singer-songwriter. He was active in the 70's. Both of...

days skied at vail/beaver creek, Colorado: 4 vertical feet: over 75000 free chocolate chip cookies ingested: 3 (two at beaver "not ro...

Phatic speech is speech that exists to fulfill a social task, not to convey some meaning.  For example "what's up?" doesn'...

I decided to start eating grains again yesterday because I'm going skiing next week, and I'll probably eat some grains then, and if ...

Bears: I thought it would be funny to cultivate an unreasonable fear.  I picked bears.  Not just fear of bears as in "they might eat me...

Catch yourself feeling insecure.  Ask yourself why.  Tell yourself a different story.  Start to feel better. Example: I'm in a room ful...

The short: if I know you in person, and/or you'd like to hear things like "Hey Cat Stevens is really good" (more on that later...

... almost two years ago.  I've still got some Nilgiri and Assam.  I guess it's like they say: when you run out of tea from your las...

I'd like more energy.  I'd like to feel good stomach-wise all the time.  I imagine this would help me with life in general. I thin...