Ever have that moment when your trying to drift off to sleep but your mind just won't shut off? That pretty much happens to me constantly. I keep a note pad and pen beside my bed so I can write the crap down and get it out, but then I start thinking about it more and the random thought gets turned into a fucking novel. I've developed my own method for shutting them down, especially when I really need to sleep. I did try meditation but then I started imagining going into a coma and so that freaked me out and I didn't try it again. I've tried drugs, legal and illegal, and nope they just make the thoughts more colourful and imaginative, so I've given my brain a safe word. 'Push' and that's it, I just think push and shove the thoughts over to the corner and out the door, if I start thinking about what I'm pushing I capitalise it PUSH and then I'll put it in bold PUSH much to my surprise it works.
Now this doesn't stop the random thoughts totally cause when I'm awake I can't go push cause I could possibly be working and I'm pushing all the answers to what I'm being asked out the door and I'll never be able to function. I don't push when I'm driving either, that's a sure recipe for disaster. But when I'm trying to sleep I activate, works for me when nothing else does so I'll keep it up.
So I was cleaning my room, and thought I'd check out the note pad and omg, I'm fucking insane, seriously insane LOL. Prepare yourselves for an couple of examples, and if the thoughts then get stuck in your head, just PUSH.
What kind of word is salmon? We don't say sal mon we say sa mon, unless we are Jamaican and having a convo with a mate.
"Hey mon, have you seen Sal?"
"No I haven't seen Sal mon"
There see used in a convo, but they aren't talking about a fish! In one of the games I play on FB there is a plant called a salmonberry (ps, still needing heaps). What the fuck? I can't see Farmer Joe down on the farm harvesting his fish berries.
"Got a good crop Ma, we'll be eating salmon for months"
And imagine the smell, omg fish baking in the sun ewwwwwwwww. It might actually be a good way to afford to have salmon though. Everybody has a bush in their yard, and they never have to buy it again.
I make no secret of the fact I love fantasy shows, in particular shows like The Walking Dead. So I'm imagining waiting for a lift to open and out bursts a whole mess of zombies, naturally I'm prepared with crossbow, gun and a back up baseball bat so I can kill them all. And why am I prepared, cause I'm not a freaking idiot, this is a fucking zombie for fucks sake, the whole world new before the TV show that they are going to eat you so you kill them first. Nor am I wandering around on my own with a back pack full of camping gear, cause yeh putting a bit of canvas between me and a zombie sounds like a great plan.
How come the freaking defence force couldn't wipe them out, I mean come on, they have freaking tanks and bombs they can do it. Sure they didn't know at first that if you died from natural causes you would become a zombie, but hey it takes just once for it to happen and your bashing in the head of any corpse you see.
Why is it that horror movies and shows haven't changed the scripts yet? Everyone in the world knows that if you hear a noise in the basement or the attic, then you don't go and investigate it. You run for your fucking life. Especially when your in a haunted house, doesn't matter that your trying to prove to your friends your brave, run for it, let them get eaten, you can always get new friends.
So there you have it, just a couple of examples, and believe me the notepad is almost full so that really is only a couple. Some days I wish I had an off switch for my brain, but then I remember what my parents taught me, a good imagination is key so use it who knows what you might think up. Pretty sure they weren't encouraging me to imagine an apocalypse or how to take over the world, but hey it's all part of the imagining process.
Catch yas
Cathy
