arguchik | (no subject)

haven't been here in awhile... busy with many things, mostly reading for an exam i have to take this fall. i don't have much to say today, but i don't guess i need to have much to say in order to say anything, eh? i've been thinking a lot about bodies and brains this week--the interconnections, the ways in which feeding one feeds the other, etc. i have also been thinking a lot about energy, both the kinds we know about (i.e. understand scientifically) and the kinds we don't. i've been talking about the latter kind with a friend--we've talked about it a couple of times. neither one of us is new-agey or prone to flakiness or whatever (lol...why do i feel the need to put in *that* disclaimer, that particular way?), but both of us have had too many experiences with this kind of energy not to believe it's there. sometimes the experience is big, sometimes it's small, sometimes you write it off as luck or deja-vu or a weird coincidence, and sometimes you just barely notice it. i think it has something to do with the ways in which living things organize space and matter (time?) around themselves, so that, for example, when someone who really loves you touches you, you can feel something more than just the physical sensation of that touch. or you somehow seem to call things or people *to* yourself when you need them. or you and a friend are both thinking of each other at exactly the same time (this happens a *lot* with my closest friends--more often than not, when one of us gets in touch, the other one says, "wow, i was just thinking about you today.") i think another related phenomenon is the ability we have, to *visually* tell whether another being (person or animal) is dead or just sleeping. this ability is heightened in animals (cats and dogs, for example, seem to "sense" death, as many people have observed), but people can do it too. we just have that extra little circuit in our brains that allows us to *deny* what we know deep down is true, to talk ourselves out of believing our 6th sense, intuition, or whatever you want to call it.

ok, that's enough weirdness for today. maybe next time i'll cite a couple of weird examples from my life.