Wednesday, April 22, 2009
all the lesser in fear
I'll always wonder if you're happy enough
Sunday, April 05, 2009
jack london is king (of fiction)
Okay, I'm barely 6 pages into Jack London's
Before Adam and I've discovered the single coolest piece of infomation in my life. No seriously. Here read it yourself:
"For instance, there was the falling-through-space dream - the commonest dream experience, one pratically known, by first-hand experience, to all men.
This, my professor told me, was a racial memory. It dated back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees. With them, being tree dwellers, the liability of falling was an ever-present menance. Many lost their lives that way; all of them experienced terrible falls, saving themselves by clutching branches as they fell toward the ground.
Now a terrible fall, averted in such fashion, was productive of shock. Such shock was productive of molecular changes in the cerebral cells. These molecular changes were transmitted to the cerebal cells of progeny; became, in short, racial memories. Thus, when you and I, asleep or dozing off to sleep, fall through space and awake to sickening conscioucness just before we strike, we are merely remembering what happened to our aboreal ancestors, and which has been stamped by cerebral changes into the heredity of the race."
Are you reeling in the coolness of it all yet? COOL RIGHT. What about sea dwellers! Maybe that's where dreams of the sea and water come from. Though I've never dreamt of drowning, only of having been drowned. And the fish. Omens, omens. Ooh :)
Now to read up on its credibility.
