Reading and Southpark

As humans we are naturally drawn to patterns. We seem to love them and look for them in everything. We even try to see them where none exist. The brain even sends signals in patterns of 40 Hz oscilation bursts. After reading this chapter I immediately thought of something on how you can get to creative tendancies. It made me think of a bottle of something my room mates had called Absinth. Now I did not part take of this drink because there was a picture of a man without an ear on it. It was van Gogh. I heard the story of how he used this as a muse for his paintings and along with his girlfriend made him cut his ear off. (Yeah this is something I want to try. Maybe I can cut my nose off.) My friends spoke of this as liquid mushrooms. I was intrigued but I will still not try this drink.

Now I also saw something on tv this past week about an altered state. It was the tv show Southpark in which the characters caught a lerperchaun. They ended up going to imagination land where everything that the human mind created lived. Fairy tale characters, dragons, cereal mascots, the care bears etc all lived there. The land was full of fly of garrett mushrooms. There was a second part of this imagination land where the nightmare creatures lived. Now the show goes on about terrorist attack to kill the imagination and everything but the show resumes with part 2 tonight at 10 and part 3 next Wednesday at 10.