my name is alex and i like dragon age and les miserables and ca:tws and fall out boy and my chemical romance and bioshock and pokemon and and linguistics and typography
This photo of Yosemite National Park
was flipped upside down after the
photographer decided the sand under
the river looked more like a starry sky. SourceSource 2
These images of the Leaning tower of Pisa are identical, but the one on the right seems to lean more. This is because the brain treats them as a single scene. Usually when you look up to two adjacent towers they appear to converge near the top due to perspective. However, in this case the two towers have parallel outlines. As a result, your brain assumes the towers are diverging. This illusion demonstrates how your visual system tends to treat two side-by-side images as if part of the same scene.
(different reasons that i might not be able to focus, how to tell them apart, and [maybe] how to solve them. work in progress.)
low energy - feeling tired and sleepy - yawning a lot - working feels like it takes way too much energy; I’d rather just sleep - feels effortful even to think - seek low-mental-effort activities like tumblr solutions: stimulants (incl. caffeine), listening to energetic music, getting up and going for a 20+ minute walk
lack of self-monitoring - feel like i’m running on autopilot - can’t easily recall the last 3 things I did - get up and walk around a lot; get lost in daydreams and thoughts - difficulty verbalizing thoughts - can respond to prompts, but hard to generate new plans/thoughts - often goes along with low energy solutions: not getting up and going for a walk, sitting at my desk and listening to happy-energetic music while looking at the task. talking through the problem with someone else – it’ll be hard at first but having to converse will bring my self-monitoring system back online.
restlessness - feeling bored, wanting stimulation - feeling frustrated - changing sitting position often, feeling uncomfortable, fidgeting a lot - seek tasty food but almost all food is not tasty enough solutions: try working with loud energetic music and a fidget toy. if this doesn’t work, go outside and run around for a bit until you’re breathing hard, then try again. let yourself have sugar after the run if you still want it.
compulsion for something else - pulled towards other, more interesting thoughts/activities - if i start working, i get sidetracked by the more interesting things without noticing - easy to enter flow state on other tasks, just not this one solutions: this one is hard. write down the more exciting thoughts and promise yourself you’ll come back to them? (you may not come back to them.)
task aversion - feeling stressed when i think about the task - or, thoughts slip off the task easily (ugh field) - feeling scared or self-hatey when i think about the task solutions: try working on the task for just two minutes. if you still hate it / feel scared after two minutes, you can stop. try talking through the task with someone else and figuring out small first actions. try listening to happy-calm-forward-motion music. query your brain about other small things that would make you feel happy to be at your desk (tea? wearing your jacket if it’s cold? moving to a conference room with better lighting?) and if they’re easy, do those, and take the time to appreciate them as you’re doing them. but mostly, talk through the task and get help from others.
This Indian agate bowl was part of a group of precious stone vessels discovered near Qift (formerly Koptos) in southern Egypt, ca. 300-100 BC. India was one of the sources for agate in antiquity, and Qift lay on the trade route that connected the Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean. Collection of The Getty Museum.
I hate this idea people have that if a parent walks in and turns off the tv while their kids are watching or playing something it’s evidence of some unhealthy attachment or addiction to technology if they get pissed off. If you walk up and slap a book out of my hand while I’m reading I’m going to have the same reaction, fuck off you’re not making some great social commentary you’re just being an ass hole.
If you slap a sandwich out of my hands and I get pissed it doesn’t mean I’m addicted to eating it just means I was enjoying something and then you had to be an asshole lmao
Side by side of my Krem cosplay and game Krem (tagged on Insta by @s.elfmadecosplay). I’m currently updating parts of the outfit for more accuracy now that I have more time to do so, but I’m really proud of what I made here! Thanks to everyone who cheered me on during the project :)
