Perfect drugs
There are 3 main* flows of brain-stimulators running through me:
- information
- music
- tea
Is consumed in text format. Through the web mostly.
This flow gets separated into sub-flows that can be categorized into “knowledge”, “politics”, “economics”, “fun stuff” etc. Sub-flows then are filtered according to “for public redistribution / for personal use”criteria. “Public” gets redistributed through several web-sites/communities. Some of these outlets/target audiences are very different - sometime “opposite” and “incompatible”. “Personal” is either consumed immediately or stored for later.
Not all of the info-flow content is important for me. Some of it isn’t stimulating at all - but processing-filtering-sharing-spreading is my “social obligation”. I can easily live without such info as “politics”, “economics”, “news”, “fun stuff” - but have to search-find-spread it. The only text-info\brain-food i really need is “knowledge-rich” (whatever it may be - philosophy, mythology, linguistics, design-tips etc) and “beautiful” (be it prose or poetry).
2. Music
I prefer to take it in not only through ears (via headphones), but with the whole body. It has to be loud enough to mute disturbing sounds (voices, street-life, phone, door-bell) - this way it functions also as a “power-shield”, not only as a brain-stimulant.
Music-flow gets registered by a special plugin and leaves traces in last.fm database.
3. Tea
It can be black (preferably “earl gray” ) or green. No sugar. But with something sweet to eat - it gives more depth and dimension to the taste of “magic brew”.
Tea stimulates me with taste and caffeine/theine and leaves body with no traces. There’s no plugin to automatically register the number of glasses i drink. About one glass an hour. Maybe more. I’m not sure, actually.
Sometimes these three flows turn into a perfect coctail - that leads to an intense energetic state. Sometimes caffeine\theine + knowledge-rich info suddenly found on the web + spiralling drummatic metallic techno or spicey-spacey electro make you want to turn-off the gravity and to “break in space”. “Breaking in space” - like a totally free highly-energetic high-speed ball of matter - is one of my recurrent dreams. Simply speaking - these simultaneous flows get you high. And sober - not stoned. I love it. One of such “highs” made me write this stupid and irrelevant post.
* - Of course, there are other stimulating flows - for example, the flow of warm energy from sun / sky / people / my cats. But usually people don’t mix well with loud music, reading texts and drinking tea. They disturb, distract and waste your time - not stimulate. And i can hug my cats, communicate and share positive energy with them every time i go to the kitchen to get another tea “fix”. Too bad they don’t like neither loud techno, nor tea, nor reading. Too bad they don’t speak human - i’m sure they have all the knowledge about life one really needs.