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48 hours of hell

Warning sign #1: A light migraine headache shows up right above the eyes, but beneath the skin. It almost feels like the pain in building from some sort of pressure between the eyes and the brain.

NOTE: Ask yourself: Would I normally drink a cup of coffee in order to deal with this headache?

Warning sign #2: The headache is definitely not a “hunger headache” you’ve tried eating everything from vegetables to fast food and the pain is becoming more intense. Also, even after drinking a cup of coffee, the pain is still there, it’s only diminished slightly. But you can continue with your work and/or regular routine.

NOTE: Ask yourself: Did that feel like a “close one” or some sort of close call?

Warning sign #3: After 6 hours from when you just had that cup of coffee, you feel the pain creeping back again. But this time, a cup of coffee seems slightly repulsive. Even though you love coffee and the smell etc. The thought of drinking another cup of coffee just doesn’t sit right.

NOTE: Ask yourself: Are you beginning to feel “flu-like” symptoms such as tightness around the neck area and or loss of appetite.

Warning sign #4: After 12 hours your throat possibly feels strange. If you know you aren’t actually “sick” from the flu and you also know you’re a big caffeine person, then this is a good indicator that you’re experiencing withdrawal symptoms from coffee etc.

HOW TO SURVIVE:

Sometimes the pain from these things can get so bad, that it can feel like a concussion. If the headache is that intense, eating too much food can make you throw up. Try eating a very small snack like a granola bar during day #2. At this time you haven’t had any more coffee or anything with caffeine.

You don’t want to eat and you definitely don’t want to do anything that require attentive eye-focus. But let’s say this hits you in an environment where you have to do a job or a live-action performance like a street performer. Feeling caffeine sick isn’t really an option. So here’s some tips:

1. Drink some non-caffeinated hot tea. At most, it should be green tea. Stuff like “matcha” and black tea has enough caffeine to keep prolonging your experience.

2. Be prepared to fast and not use the computer when you get home. Focused eye-strain like video-games, blogging, reading online newspapers, using tablet computers will put pressure on the same eye-areas that your migraines are coming from.

3. When you’re finally home, take a nice relaxing shower and then go to sleep without any dinner. I know this sounds weird, but it works. Don’t have any fans on. Don’t have any lights on. Nothing. Just have a glass of normal water ready for you if you get thirsty.

4. Be prepared to suffer in your bed. You will need 10 – 12 hours of un-interrupted rest time in the bed to get through this. You actually won’t get much sleep at all. You’ll just lie there feeling bad. If you have work early in the next morning, then I recommend you rest in your bed IMMEDIATELY when you get home. Skip the emails, skip the phone calls. Just try and keep your eyes closed for as long as your can.

5. The next day, you might be a little hungry and also feel backed up. If you’re in good health, you’ll probably be able to purge after eating a meal. Don’t feel weird if you can’t finish a meal during this experience. Just box it, the servers will understand.

6. If you were able to purge after your meal you should start to be feeling better. If you’re not beginning to feel at least a little better, then you probably have something more serious that is wrong with you. In that case you might want to call a doctor.

-Tyler

Vampirism can pull one away from inner peace

Have you ever heard someone say, “That person is a vamp!” or “Watch out, that guy/gal is a psychic vampire!” These terms have meaning but they are difficult to pinpoint. At times, the ideas are vaporous and they float around our consciousnesses like moths in a dusty room. Other times, we have a clear feeling of being drained or perhaps draining…and the energy can exit the body similarly to how someone feels drained right before he or she falls asleep.

An interesting video by “Teal” which is embedded below for your convenience thoroughly covers the concept of psychic vampirism in such a way that is both accessible and unforgiving. I like how she brings up the idea of source energy and how it relates to this phenomena.

As someone who definitely would classify himself as an absorber of knowledge, this video really hits home. Teal presents abstract concepts with a professional attitude which make me interested in hearing more of her wisdom on the subject. Granted, this is my first time listening to one of Teal’s videos, so I can’t verify her or anyone else’s psychic credentials. But I’ve never been one for credentialism in the first place. If someone is presenting a clear argument, I’m game for listening. And if he or she can keep me interested for 20 minutes plus…well then there must be something of value.

I’ve had this pomegranate in the refrigerator for a few days now. Several people have recommended pomegranates as healthy snacks and so I actually bought one the other day. But for some reason I hadn’t eaten it yet. Carrots, strawberries, blackberries, even mangoes are easy. None of those fruits are new. I’ve done them before. But a pomegranate…that’s new. But after watching half of this video, I took a break to eat the pomegranate and make some coffee. I wanted to take a risk and be healthier for it. Maybe this video inspired me with some extra confidence to add a new thing to my healthy snack repertoire?

I know what a lot of you are probably thinking, “Oh, he’s just watching the video because the lady is a pretty face.” Nope. That’s not it. Teal is very beautiful, I’ll give you that. But her information is excellent. I especially liked how she brought up the law of attraction in such a way which reminded me of wave theory. Two things cannot occupy the same space unless they are identical. In basic musical wave theory, if two identical waves coincide and synchronize, they will simply amplify each other. But if the waves are synchronized, yet are completely opposite, destructive interference will occur and the waves will appear to be standing null-waves. In regards to psychic vampirism, it’s as if she’s taking something like, “Law of Attraction” concepts which are often abused and oversimplified, and she’s actually using these concepts to make a solid underpinning for an argument.

Overall, I think this video is informative, though provoking and highly interesting.

-Tyler

bread can make you tired

Fasting isn’t just for religious purposes or for preparing for surgery…actually, we do it every night! Our first meal of the morning is called, “Breakfast” because we’re breaking the “FAST” that was taking place due to sleep. While one is truly sleeping, he or she cannot eat or drink (unless he’s getting some sort of intravenous solution in a hospital) and that sleep allows our cells to do work on our bodies without having to compensate for movement, and the ingestion of new fluids, solids and/or toxins. So while we sleep, we’re letting our little cellular workers get their duties done without giving them extra work to do.

The reason why fasting is related to the concept of “I need to get my work done FAST today” is quite interesting.

Have you ever been very full and you already ate a gigantic meal and then someone like your parents or maybe a friend says, “Hurry up! Dinner’s ready! Come downstairs and let’s eat,” but for some reason…you don’t walk very quickly down the stairs? You might blob down the stairs with a sad face because you were busy talking to a friend. Or maybe you don’t come downstairs on time and upset everyone who is waiting on you for dinner.

Now let’s take a different look at the situation with different variables. Let’s say this time, you actually had to skip a meal earlier in the day due to some important event like a piano recital…or maybe you didn’t have time to eat because a colleague needed advice on a big presentation of which subject matter you were an expert. So this time when your loved ones say dinner is ready, what speed do you get downstairs? “FAST” right? It’s as if you don’t even walk downstairs, you somehow bent space and time to the will of your stomach!

Well, fasting is very interesting and can be equally dangerous. Fasting too often can cause people to become weak, fain and also acquire nervous disorders. But the reason why fasting is part of so many religions and cultures around the world for at least 1 day per year…is because it can make one rethink their mind/body relationship and how it relates to their dietary behaviors.

Just today, I was feeling very strange and lethargic. I rarely feel lethargic at all and I was quite confused. This was especially disconcerting because I have a huge demo project which is due in a week. And although I could probably discuss with my friend how I might need more time, I don’t want to. Because this project is going to be a showcase of my programming work and progress over the last couple months. (stay tuned because I’m going to post the project on this site in a week if all goes well.)

So I couldn’t grind very easily on my programming and I was wondering why. So I retraced my food intake over the past couple days and I realized that I had eaten a tremendous amount of pastas, pizzas and chow mein type foods. All these foods are very starchy and are high in carbohydrates. In other words…these foods are part of the bread family.

The only way to confront this bread lethargy is the hard way. I had to take a dreaded…nap.

While I slept in this non-productive torpor of the mind, I found my thoughts drifting. I couldn’t pinpoint any dreams or any real emotions. The thoughts just bubbled around like pasta in boiling water. Until finally, I woke up a couple hours later but didn’t have the energy to work just yet. So I just relaxed for a bit. And while I relaxed, my mind began working on my programming project! It was so weird! I’m just lying there, trying to NOT think, and then out of nowhere, “IF (inventory.visible == True ) && (Keyboard…” Basically, my project was being coded by my subconscious or perhaps my pseudo-consciousness. I’m not really sure, what matters was that after not eating for a while and getting some sleep, I was able to both get my energy back and also solve a major problem I was having with my character’s inventory and the idea of making keyboard presses correlate to movement on the inventory screen, as opposed to movement of the character in the cave area.

One good way of dealing with lethargy and sloth is to get to know what your desired energy levels are. I prefer having a lot of energy so I like things like coffee and high-fiber vegetables like celery and carrots, as well as other items like meats and tons of other stuff. But you might have a desired energy level which may be vegetarian or vegan or perhaps you’re a big fish eater. It could be anything. Everyone’s body is unique and his or her’s goals and responsibilities can directly be affected by having a comfortable energy level in order to getting the work done right.

So have fun and enjoy life!

-Tyler

[This document is a proposal for a series of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment numbers will be left dynamic until given proper placement by signatories. This specific document is hereby released into the Public Domain.]

Preamble to the Bill of Inclusion:

We the People of the United States of America, choose to acknowledge the fact that our great nation is supported by diversity and strengthened through unity.

Furthermore, we acknowledge both the rapid rate of our technological innovation and the limitless boundaries of scientific discovery.

In keeping with our tradition of preparedness, we expand the meaning of the words, “person” and “People.”

A “person” and also “People” will include sentient beings who may not be necessarily human, into our great country as fellow citizens.

Amendment {A1}

The word, “sentient” will be used to describe beings who can think, processes sensory feedback, and constructively interact with other people of the United States of America.

Although this word, “sentient” may be the subject of debate in coming years, the lawful debates will endeavor to recognize new people into our nation.

Lawful discussion and debate will not be used to exclude or marginalize already recognized people of our great nation.

Amendment {A2}

Preparation for recognition of the following sentient lifeforms should begin with, yet not be limited to:

1. Lawfully or unlawfully created clones

2. Emergent non-corporal intelligences, such as virtual artificial intelligent lifeforms

3. Artificially intelligent physical lifeforms such as organic, robotic or crystalline beings

4. Emergent fungi consciousness networks or individuals, either existing underneath the soil or in the air as spore-form entities

5. Birthright lifeforms of off-world ancestry of a maximum of one-generation

Signed:

Tyler Stansfield Jaggers

December 5th, 2012