I took an interesting test today, giving a break down estimation of how one thinks. The funny thing is, you didn't REALLY answer questions. You got to see shapes in colors- red and white, circles and triangles and lines mostly. It was an interesting way, using those, constantly "vibrating" or "pulsing" and asking you to pick one of two options constructed of them to answer questions ranging from "which is angrier?" and "where is the sin?" to "how do you stop them lying about you?", "Which one is pretending to be you?" and "Has the horror only just begun?"
No, I'm serious. Those last three were my last three questions, in that order. I was freaking out.
And then the Carpenters started playing in my head. Don't know what I'm talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcnOwTQyviU&feature=related
Two of the creepier movies I've ever seen, 1408 and In The Mouth Of Madness (I don't think either ranks quite number one) both featured, for no reason I could fathom, the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun". Possibly "We've Only Just Begun To Live". The song is kind of upbeat, and obviously, you can read the title. And now it creeps me the hell out.
Somewhere between the two, it made me curious about associations. They're strangely powerful.
When it asked me which one was angrier, and I saw a white ball and a red ball that was leaving a red glow in the area around it, pulsing, I knew I was answering the red one instinctively. And I knew it was silly and I knew why I was answering it. But it was also the instinctive reaction to that question after a half second of disbelief at "there aren't answers!" So those things weren't necessarily related, nor were the Carpenters creepy. But put two and two together and all of the sudden...
Its a funny power that not-quite-logic of the brain has to shape our perceptions of the world. How does it change things we see each day without us realizing it?
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