The times your brain shorted

Frostbite · 17th February 2003, 03:54 PM

Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel...

With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day.

[edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover).

Blue Monk · 17th February 2003, 03:58 PM

Do you mean today?

I ask because if you want to know how many times my brain has shorted ever then you best get comfortable 'cause we're gonna be here a spell.

Keneke · 17th February 2003, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Frostbite
Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel...

With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day.

[edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover).

I may sleepwalk and talk, but I also go into altered states upon premature awakening. For example, I swear up and down that if I move, the world ends. Mom told me to get up for school, and in my daze, I tell her this. She tells me you're dreaming...and I wake fully up and get up. I do not see or sense anything in the dream, I simply think something weird that flavors my actions.

Isn't that weird?

DrMatt · 18th February 2003, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Frostbite
Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel...

With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day.

[edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover).

If you had a way to electroplate water into its elemental constiuents, the recombination of them would make a pretty powerful fuel...

I never had a bike with training wheels. When I was 4, my parents decided it was time for me to ride, so they stuck me on a rusty bike, made me pedal, gave me a good push, and watched me go. Soon I realized that they weren't holding me up. I knew nothing about angular momentum, and the business of staying up seemed magical to me--for the couple of minutes before I crashed into the curb, yelling "how do you stop this thing?" The coaster brake was another bit of magic which I didn't understand.

The bike had rust spots on the front fender more or less in the perfect place to serve as eyes. When I was moving slowly, the idiomotor effect took over and the "eyes" seemed to wiggle around on their own. Nobody would answer my questions about how the thing stayed balanced on two wheels or how pedalling backwards slowed the thing down gradually rather than suddenly putting it in reverse. The only things I'd ever seen which were capable of such tricks were dogs. So, there was a period of a couple of days when I was 4, when I thought the bicycle was alive.

It didn't last, though. The thing wouldn't initiate any behavior on its own.

I learned from this experience that people can be mistaken, and that most people don't want to be bothered by questions which they can't answer.

17th February 2003, 03:54 PM	#1
Frostbite Muse Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Montreal, Qc Posts: 986	The times your brain shorted Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel... With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day. [edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover).
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17th February 2003, 06:07 PM	#3
Keneke Muse Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 980	Re: The times your brain shorted Quote: Originally posted by Frostbite Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel... With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day. [edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover). I may sleepwalk and talk, but I also go into altered states upon premature awakening. For example, I swear up and down that if I move, the world ends. Mom told me to get up for school, and in my daze, I tell her this. She tells me you're dreaming...and I wake fully up and get up. I do not see or sense anything in the dream, I simply think something weird that flavors my actions. Isn't that weird?
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18th February 2003, 07:56 AM	#4
DrMatt Graduate Poster Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 1,422	Re: The times your brain shorted Quote: Originally posted by Frostbite Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel... With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day. [edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover). If you had a way to electroplate water into its elemental constiuents, the recombination of them would make a pretty powerful fuel... I never had a bike with training wheels. When I was 4, my parents decided it was time for me to ride, so they stuck me on a rusty bike, made me pedal, gave me a good push, and watched me go. Soon I realized that they weren't holding me up. I knew nothing about angular momentum, and the business of staying up seemed magical to me--for the couple of minutes before I crashed into the curb, yelling "how do you stop this thing?" The coaster brake was another bit of magic which I didn't understand. The bike had rust spots on the front fender more or less in the perfect place to serve as eyes. When I was moving slowly, the idiomotor effect took over and the "eyes" seemed to wiggle around on their own. Nobody would answer my questions about how the thing stayed balanced on two wheels or how pedalling backwards slowed the thing down gradually rather than suddenly putting it in reverse. The only things I'd ever seen which were capable of such tricks were dogs. So, there was a period of a couple of days when I was 4, when I thought the bicycle was alive. It didn't last, though. The thing wouldn't initiate any behavior on its own. I learned from this experience that people can be mistaken, and that most people don't want to be bothered by questions which they can't answer.
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17th February 2003, 03:58 PM	#2
Blue Monk Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,772	Do you mean today? I ask because if you want to know how many times my brain has shorted ever then you best get comfortable 'cause we're gonna be here a spell.