'-Dreams are you experiencing the multiverse  -Why do bacteria form endospores that are capable of withstanding the vacuum of space?  Clearly because they were bio engineered by an advanced...|||My ideal vacation is 5 days backpacking through wilderness that is miles and miles from anything.  Either alone or with someone that can be quiet for 5 hours at a time.|||I would call gender and race equality real issues this country has.  Again, changing the dollar bill and I would also add the transgender bathrooms are one facet of those issues.  By dismissing those...|||And AceTrainerGreen  Although I agree that gender and race equality is a multifaceted problem I disagree that changing the bill doesn't have any effect.  Anything that is nationally...|||I see your point, but I also get that the only people on our money are old white dudes.  There are other people that have also contributed greatly to our society that didn't get recognition because...|||Totally hot|||Except that he then explained it to me in detail.  That's when I fell all the way in love.    The universe has already seduced me, I'm totally in awe.  I guess it's hard for a mere mortal to...|||Because it describes the fabric of the universe and it's so different from what we'd suspect.  And it suggests that a lot of what we think we know about the way the world works is probably wrong. ...|||I'd just like to state that it's been awhile since I ventured into this forum and this thread is hilarious.    Definitely better than the suicide thread.  Although you do realize that to seduce...|||Roughly 817,000  The only thing that keeps me sane is a chrome extension One Tab|||Mis-reading social cues is not my issue.  Over analysis of social cues is my issue.  I feel like I read a lot more into a social interaction than most people and it can become paralyzing. ...|||As a kid I used to have the auditory hallucination of my name being called.  I've certainly had olfactory hallucinations from time to time.  I've felt the presence of someone very close to me who...|||No kids, no plan to have kids.  The noise factor alone sounds awful.  And the lack of alone time and the amount of personal investment.  And as others have mentioned the whole pregnancy and...|||I had a roommate that had a special talent for nicknames.  Every time I walked in the room it seemed he called me something different... my favorites are listed first, and this list represents a tiny...|||Yep.  One of my favorite dates was snuggling up in bed after sex and both of us pulling out our own sci fi novels.|||Aaaah romance.  I show affection mostly through physical acts.  Cuddles, hugs, randomly humping them from behind, ass slaps, etc.  And teasing.  I love a well executed insult that jabs at one of my...|||I haven't been drawing much either, but this is the last thing I was working on referenced from a photo I took of a statue in a park.  Hopefully I finish this one day  477930|||Yes.  I found the debates to be absolutely intellectually stimulating.  It was my favorite thing about him.  I know he enjoyed our debates as well but it eventually dissolved and affected our...|||I think I've overcome social retardation for the most part unless it's a VERY awkward situation. Then I clam up and get all tense.  Although it hasn't stopped me from finding most company to be...|||I disagree.  Most of the time I really, really want a hug.  Like a really good one.  But of course the idea of asking for one is horrifying.  I agree with the intensity part too.  Recently I guy...|||Carnivore and Amine Also:  question for the determinists... how do determinists explain the evolution of consciousness, especially emotion, processing pain, etc.  Most theories hinge around the...|||Just to jump in... I wouldn't throw out an idea because other physicists and neurologists are enraged over it.  As I said in a previous post quantum mechanics (and consciousness) are unsolved...|||Carnivore and Amine  I'm going to have to digest that argument, you may have swayed me.  I'll get back to you in like two months :)|||I do want to add too that this is just an idea that I play around with because it's fun.  And I haven't even gotten to the weirdest bits of it.  But you'd all have to just accept this first part to...|||I want to respond to this, but I am not a student of philosophy.  It would help if you expanded a bit and explain how it applies to what I laid out.|||Ok... I agree that defining I gets rather difficult when it comes to consciousness.  I end up thinking about this a lot and have not come up with any explanation that I find satisfactory.  I...|||First apologies for editing my reply to you about 15 times... I think you replied during my editing frenzy.  I get what you're saying about the cause and effect being reversed in what we believe to...|||Yes.  The way I think about it as the universes 'right next' to the one our consciousness is currently in has the highest probability of your consciousness landing in it, those that branch far off...|||I see it more of getting free will out of multiple universes.    The quantum indeterminacy is what gives rise to multiple universes... and this isn't my theory, it's one of several (although...|||The free will thread got me convinced to lay out a little theory I play around with:  Let's first assume physical determinism, that is that every particle in the universe acts in a predictable way...|||https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/12524317_1096275087097552_4080794880366941047_n.jpg?oh=6fc0af380de0b6da6556aa42603c9283&oe=56FF9F92  Ahh, couldn't help it :)  But to...|||Cuddling.    I know, I know...   *hands over INTP card*|||I think Shpongle is brilliant.  Although I've never done LSD, listening to this I feel like I know what it's like.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiZG-eAk30|||Yeah I belonged to a travel forum that held meetups.  I used a nickname in the forum long before I imagined meeting anyone in real life.  The nickname was one a roommate had given me.  I put it in...|||I was thinking along the same lines.  I saw a terrifying documentary about sleep paralysis that kept me from going back to sleep last night.|||I've had the lucid dreams before as well.. also with varying degrees of control.  Twice I conjured up a guy I wanted to make out with but my subconscious has a *hilarious* sense of humor and the...|||I've had lucid dreams and then I experienced what I experienced last night.  It wasn't really a dream.  It started with me suddenly being conscious and realizing that I was in bed but I didn't know...|||I went on a road trip by myself once up from San Francisco to Seattle then to Montana and down through Idaho, Utah and Nevada.  I was camping and did some wilderness backpacking as well.  I didn't...|||I'd tell myself to chill the eff out.  Which actually, could still apply to my current self.  I spent a lot of time after college really down on myself because I had no idea what to do with myself....|||I've only yelled at someone once that I can remember in the last 15 years.  My housemate (who I love and will put up with all sorts of crap from) and I were in a fight.  He yells and I usually sit...|||I like my electronic music deep, dark and dirty, like my men.  I go through phases but this is good example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qkTmH367w  I run the gamut.  I've been listening...|||BTW:  This haunted me for years about my bf's death.  I had this need to know if he knew he was going to die.  They said it was instant (did they just tell us that?) but before his motorcycle hit the...|||My first boyfriend died in a motorcycle accident when we were both in our early 20's.  The grieving process was long and came in waves and was something that changed me as person.  I lost beliefs in...|||Welcome!  I felt the same exact way when I discovered this site :)|||I'm a biology teacher and I love the idea of plush toy infectious agents.  So I have a few floating around my classroom (as well as different types of cells, but I don't find them quite as funny). ...|||Passive aggressiveness.  I don't hint around about what I want to say to someone.  I try to put it in as plain terms as possible so there's no mistake about what I mean.  Unfortunately that means I...|||I got a third of the way through this book then gave up after reading 12 pages about pre-industrial farming techniques.  Life is too short.|||Espresso straight.  I take it dark and bitter, like my men.|||When I get really stressed out I remember that as the sun dies and expands out into a red giant in several billion years it will swallow the earth (or at least toast the life crust off of it) and...|||I think it entirely depends on what you do with it.  I don't watch any channels just Netflix and Primewire as I firmly believe advertisements are detrimental to your mental health.  But last...'