Sunday, November 22, 2009

Do You Ever Do This?

Sometimes when I am really bored, I employ one of two mind games to distract me. Both involve looking at people and imagining things about them, and both result in me getting completely creeped out. In one mind exercise, I look at people and imagine that they are on drugs. In the other mind exercise, I look at people and imagine that they are the opposite gender than the one they obviously present. Specifically, I look at men and imagine that they are women, and look at women, imagining them to be men. This largely results in me thinking, "That is a really pretty man" or "That woman is super masculine". In the other exercise, I just get creeped out/impressed by how many zombie-junkies there are that manage to get through the grocery store without freaking out.

The problem with this active imagination stuff is that it can be hard to stop doing once you start. Also, when you blog about it, your friends think you are really wierd.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Back when I did drugs, I thought everyone was on drugs. But not in an "Oh no! Everyone's on drugs!" way. More of a "That's cool, everyone needs to get stoned now and then," way. Now that I don't do drugs, I don't think anyone's on drugs. So when I see someone on drugs I think: "Oh, how sad, he's mentally ill," or "Look how tired she is, she should get some sleep."