Dreaming mechanics

Dreaming properly is maintenance checking and cleaning for uncommonly accessed memory networks. Essentially a sort of compression, where the result of computation is written back to ( varying degrees of short and long term memory ) from the conscious memory buffer. It functions as an economising lossy-abstraction-based garbage collector. The danger of course, is that it modifies the accuracy of memory. 

I find that methyl-cobalamin, creatine, and fish oil before sleep, help in this respect. Whereas the same during waking simply improve neural tone in the performance of daily activities. The therapeutic effect comes in an hour and is gone within 8 hours. Misalignment with circadian and adenosine cycles can accidentally lead to brief insomnia. This I have observed for years.

More recently I have been testing GABA-minergics namely chamomile and passionflower. These seem to counterbalance the effects of caffeine and excess glutamate.

Nerves are complicated, but it seems that is all there is to humanity. The management of nerves.

Party culture : casual sex, ab/normal?

Someone on Threads didn't understand how such a risk environment is possibly common, and why people submit themselves to such risks.

Briefly, without detracting from the severity of non-consensual offenses : the technical answer to the question is ... it seems less scary to people until they get hurt, particularly in a culture where it is normal to go parties and have consensual sex with multiple strangers, on a weekly basis. Normal as in possibly frowned upon, but legal and sort of like a niche hobby.

TBF : the same culture exists in veeery small niches of Kuala Lumpur also. Folks don't always remember who they were with, or what they did, but it is their culture of fun.

It's totally alien for folks from conservative societies ...

being kind with fools

Today an old fool lost his wife. One thing I know, in life be generous with fools, especially those who are stingy with you. God knows they need, all the help they can get.

Be kind to idiots. Be nice to retards. Be gentle with ruffians.

Another old fool learnt how to sew zippers. I don't know about the other guy, but my shoulder aches like a bitch from asymmetrical pulling.

Tomorrow the fools will carry on. Maybe they will be less foolish in the afterlife, if it exists. 

the world is not fair

I always expect that life will get worse. I have had a fantastic life. I learnt hypothesis testing at 8, people management at 13, transcendental idealism at 14, and academic politics at 20. Then I retired and did stupid stuff like commerce and technology. I just learnt to sew, and to speak politics in the language of my birth at 43. I had delineated completely the quanta of my conscience experience by 21, and got to see AI implemented almost exactly a lifetime after that. I always wonder if I will get bored enough to need to make a ton of money, but being happy with little, I have not yet been too distracted from priorities. I still haven't learnt credit markets properly. Right now I am brushing up on physical conditioning. I have loved and been loved by far more people than I deserve. I remain curious.