March 20, 2005
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Something to add:
For anyone who didn’t get enough of the legally blind
musher, Beth Bragg wrote about her in today’s Anchorage Daily News:
Scdoris wasn’t the only musher who inspired us.Something to answer:
No, Ren I can’t “think” my way out of the “worst” of this damned disease. The worst of it is the part I can’t
think myself out of. I deal with the pain without drugs. I
use shamanic techniques to get around the sleep disorder. Nothing
I’ve found does anything for the sensorimotor deficits (the stumbling
and fumbling) or for the chronic fatigue. For them, I just
stumble, fumble, pick myself up, clean up the messes I make, and rest
three to five days to recover from every one day of activity.Something to suggest:
Yesterday Marj mentioned that she doesn’t recall her dreams.
She’s not the first person who has mentioned that when I write about my
dreams. I meant to say something about this earlier. The
brain is an electrochemical machine. Memory is an electrochemical
process. It can fail when either the electricity is out of phase
or the chemistry is out of balance.Over the past few years, I’ve become sensitive to my
neurochemistry. My sensitivity to and control of my brainwave
frequencies has been developing over about a decade and a half.
Checklist self-tests on websites such as moodcure and
dietcure can reveal the nature of any chemical imbalances that might be
affecting dreaming and/or recall. The brainwave state around the
alpha/theta crossover point, the same frequency as the planet’s
Schumann Resonance, is conducive to memory. Even just slowing
your brainwaves slightly out of normal waking beta consciousness into
alpha can make it easier to recall dreams and/or creative ideas.
Many types of biofeedback training devices exist to assist anyone in
learning to control brainwaves.
Comments (10)
I remember my dreams, even if I don’t want to. Most of them are frightful, not worth remembering. But the good ones, although few and far between, are wonderful.
buser gets my vote … that finger had to have hurt like hell when he was mushing
i’ve started remembering my dreams once and a while.
usually when i take excedrin pm or tylenol pm to help me sleep.
hm
weird thing was that i almost always remembered dreams if i had them while napping.
i’ll go check out the sites.
I once asked a friend who was studying Jung what it meant that I couldn’t remember my dreams, and she said I wasn’t ready to deal with what my dreams were trying to tell me. Made sense at the time.
I figured so but thought I’d ask just the same. I think I have this idea that you can do everything that I *can’t* do and since my belief is that we can heal ourselves to a certain degree…… well, there have been times when I’ve “talked myself into” good health, however, once I lose my focus everything goes straight to hell (or wherever) and it seems like that’s worse than the state I was in in the first place. Well, for what it’s worth, I know that the power that you DO exert over your own health situation will continue to provide you with time to do the things that you want to do
PS. Buser gets my vote too!
I’m sure there’s at least a dozen in line ahead of Scdoris. That article is nicely done.
You’ve mentioned those links before, and I know I’ve gone there and read about them, but then went on my way. I just did the quizzes on both sites & ordered the books. I always knew I had some kind of imbalance, just never knew what & then you go and hand it to me and I did nothing with it. I just can’t seem to appreciate my health when I have it – when I’m as sick as I am now, not terribly but it’s all in my chest, I can’t seem to do anything, no matter how hard I try to ignore it & get on with life. I haven’t been this sick in awhile, at least involving my asthma/bronchitis, and I knew I was really doing well & needed to not push my luck, but I honestly forgot that most of the last 10 yrs was spent feeling just like I am now. It’s no wonder I never get anything done.
Here you are, battling real, serious illnesses, and I can’t be bothered to take the time to control my own health. How stupid can I be?
(This is me, beating myself over the head!) I don’t imagine it would be hard to find the appropriate amino acids here, and those quizzes make it clear I’m in trouble, even though I’ve improved my diet a lot over the last year.
So I’ll just say thank you, really wish I could help you feel better, and promise I will try.
You are and will probably always be the most interesting person to read in Xanga. I read you everyday if not more than once a day. I never miss a post. I think to leave a comment but I feel you deserve an original thought or at least a very good question and I don’t always have those. At the same time, I feel guilty for not telling you that you amaze and inspire me so there..I’ve said it.
Wow I will check those out. I remember my dreams and very vividly most of the time. I don’t really want to, but what can ya do. My dreams are also epic, like a movie or something..and very strange…ohh and I sometimes orgasm in my sleep along with my dreams, that I dont mind
I hadn’t heard of the legally blind musher! Thanks!