Smelly Dreams
My last post, The State of Consciousness You’re Missing Out On, was all about sleep, dreams, and the fact that consciousness never really quits. In the comments, Rod brought up an interesting point, that even in our dreams, our senses still have influence over our consciousness. Serendipitously, I found this article on Wired about a new study which showed that smells can influence our dreams.
Pleasant scents give rise to pleasant dreams, and foul smells turn fantasy to phantasmagoria: so concludes a small, unreplicated and wholly plausible study on odor and dreaming.
More specifically, smells actually affect the emotional content of our dreams, which cannot be said of touch or sound. That implies that our brains actually process smell differently than other senses, which is kind of fascinating I think.
You can read the Wired article here.
Self Inflicted OCD
I stumbled across another fascinating article that details how Leonardo Dicaprio actually brought back a mild case of childhood OCD and then made the OCD a lot worse when he played the OCD ridden Howard Hughes in The Aviator.
I think that really speaks to the fact that if you act a certain way it really does eventually become who you are, whether you want to be the person you’re acting like or not.
So who are you acting like right now? A better version of yourself, or a worse one? Who do you want to be, and why aren’t you acting more like that?
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