Getting my Geek on: Sleep Learning and Peripheral Knowledge

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Getting my Geek on: Sleep Learning and Peripheral Knowledge Current mood: sick Category: Art and Photography The following conversation happened earlier... ... al: i was never one to find hope in allagory JD: well you can read a not so hopeful poem instead if you prefer my fatalist side JD: i have them in reams al: not so much al: hey al: wanne hear something really wierd? JD: sure al: when i said this:"al: i was never one to find hope in allagory"... I typed it... then had to look up what allagory meant... becuase i honeslty had no clue... when i found it online, I saw the sentence had exactly the meaning i intended.. do you see the wierdness? JD: hehehe i do JD: i do that all the time ... That means there is some other part of my brain... working independant of my consiousness... that has knowledge that I don't! I have had a theory, for a while now, that with directed dreaming you can learn a previously unknown to you skill or area of expertise. Or as it were, not completely unknown, only "peripherially known." Peripheral Knowledge I define as that which you may have seen in passing; maybe read a book on in college, thumbed though a magazine, saw someone do it, saw a picture, or in some other way gained access to the a piece of information that didn't mean anything to you at the time, and wasn't really filed in your brain for later retrieval... here is an example: everyone has looked one time or anoher at the code numbers on fruits and vegetables in the supermaret, but who, besides checkout people, remember that a red delicious apple is a 4016? My theory suggests that you can take the volumes of peripheral knowledge, and with proper mental discipline recombine it into a useful part of your waking consiousness. I say during sleep, as that is when long term memory gets modified. Take learning to play the piano for instance. I don't know how to play the piano... But I have read about it, and have seen in passing the proper fingerings, and know the notes, and seen people play... all this "peripheral knowledge" locked in random, non-organized places in my brain. IF, I were to be able to direct my dreams to take piano lessons, or just reorganise that information into the proper spot, with no further external information, I would be able to wake up one morning and ne able to play the piano. This thing that just happened, in the above conversation, where I suddenly knew how to use a word I have never used.. and had not consiously knew the meaning of.. is an example of this in a waking state I peripherally learned the word... but not had it in my waking consious until just now. I think this needs more study by people more learned than I in such areas... or if I were to succeed in this area... I could do my own study.... I think I've peripheraled enough knowledge to culminate this sucker into a Nobel Prize... now to figure out how to impliment... bleh... I've always been a nuts and bolts guy.. but this one has me stumped. Geek: off 1:04 AM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos

Feisty Jackson

Um... I missed one. You spelled allegory wrong. At least you know what it means though... hehehe. Get your geek on all the time, I do love it so. Posted by Feisty Jackson on May 9, 2007 8:04 PM

Hacker Diet update week 40

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Hacker Diet update week 40 Current mood: eh... Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes 10 weeks since my last update... why? I'm bored with it. Charts: March April May Ok, so you know how I start betting really big and stupid when I get bored of playing blackjack down in AC... well, a similar thing is happening here... I am getting sloppy and not paying attantion.. and really not caring anymore about loosing the weight. SO my charts are all over the place... BUT, once a week, I get a bug up my but and say, "back on track!" for a day or two... but then I get bored again.. I'm hovering around 230. Not my goal, but not unimpressive. I've lost 110 pounds! That's 32% of my orginal body weight! That's the weight of some shorter women! That's fricken incredible, I think... But, I'm still bored. I stopped recording my calories everyday, and keep a total in my head. Which is sloppy, but close enough at this point. The upside of this boredness... is I'm clearly seeing how much I need to eat to maintain this weight. But the result is not good. It's way less then I thought.. so this might get scary. But I'm not one to give up too easily, so I plod on. Another upside is that I am actually still losing weight! At about 1 lb/week so it's not a totally loss, just compared to the rate at which I was shedding the pounds.. it's pretty slow. Let's review my goals for a moment... Post number 1 in this saga found me at 200lbs by christmas 2007. This is totally reasonable. if I continue on the plan. however, months ago I thought 200 was too skinny and revised it to 215. Still doable. Fit on the coasters at Great Adventure. I went to GA baby! Fit on every ride I wanted! With room to spare on Rolling Thunder! and the one that started it all.. Batman the Ride: not only did I fit, the damned over the sholder harness clicked down and extra notch... I didn't even know there WERE extra notches! Save on Gas Well, I don't have a metric for this, but I must be saving something. My motorcycle sure knows I lost weight! It has some zip now! let me tell you! Size 38 Pants Nothing to complain about here! I am wearing 38/32's by Calvin Klein and loving it! Also of note.. my shoe size went down by a size... I fit in a 12 now... odd. Size Large Shirts Workin it good here! Did I have other goals? maybe... Guess I should have written them down in the beginning. Where does this lead me... well, I am technically still on the diet, I'm just not as strict about it as I was. Does the 215 lbs make sense? Sure.. it will just take me longer to get there, which is A-ok with me, as I am rather happy with my progress to date, and I feel no obligation to meet that target. Hence, the long range target date. It's funny, you hear people say that those last X pounds are the hardest.. Now I know why. Because you stop caring! Well, not 100% stopped, but close enough to make it difficult to continue. BTW, I still weight myself everyday, so I am keeping close watch on my weight... how long will that last? Maybe forever,.. it's not hard, and only takes a few minutes every day. -allen 7:02 AM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos

Feisty Jackson

I think you're doing great, and weight loss slows down after a while so a pound a week seems pretty on the ball to me. In the end though, its all about how you feel because I always thought you looked good. :) Ahem, anyway, I sm subscribing to your blog (even though you should just get a livejournal to make MY life easier ) and I am going to start updating mine on here (no where near as often as the LJ though) so you should become one of my avid readers... I have like, three! Posted by Feisty Jackson on May 7, 2007 1:46 PM