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no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it’s been twelve years since it happened

it’s such an unreal experience

you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face

and

you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is

it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it’s there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing

But You Are Not Seeing Anything

Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no light to put an image on your retina.

But your brain just Fucking Assumes that because it knows where your hand is and what it is doing, clearly it can see it.

So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing.

Brain is like “there’s a hand there”

Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it”

Brain is like “nice”

but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best

Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

nikniknikin

we once went spelunking, and a our guide said that once he was in a cave with a stream, so he could hear running water, and his brain was like ‘oh, running water? that means there must be Ducks out there’. and he saw like…low light shadows of ducks. that his brain just Put There.

the-tabularium

As a cave guide: we call that ‘cave blindness’! True darkness absolutely wigs your brain out - we’re such visual creatures that after a while our brain throws a hissy after not seeing anything. Sensory deprivation is a very real kind of torture. We have a huge, deep cave system at work and there are a lot of places where you’re hundreds of meters in solid rock in this tiny, dark, still space.

I like to turn my torch off, sit down with my back against the wall, and wait to see how long it takes before I start seeing things or feeling like the ground is moving, or hearing things. Because I know I’m not - I’m in complete darkness, utter silence, sitting in rock that hasn’t moved in hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Proof that brains are Ridiculous and over-react to a lot of stuff!

fieldbears

I want to add to this that people who lose their hearing as adults have reported hearing music “being played loudly from somewhere”, and other auditory hallucinations, bc the brain will just panic and put your brain’s ipod on *fucking shuffle* if it’s not getting any input

#ref #bc i wanna try this fuck

flashinqlights

ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

blueandbluer

I love this idea. We used to do things like this in Improv.

whatyouwanted-whatyougot

Related game: “THINK ABOUT IT.” You’re given a random topic, and your job is to build it into an epic conspiracy theory, the crazier the better. You end your rant with a serious face and the command that your listeners “Think about it.”

astrojukebox

Another related game: Illuninati. Similar to Think About It except you are given 2 completely different topics and you have to connect them to each other in a wild conspiracy rant

a-simpler-life

Rb to safe an awkward hang out

#ref #i love this lmao

tastefullyoffensive

(via meanboysclub)

mypissedoffsandwichold-deactiva

The last one

thunderboltsortofapenny

Also good on these people for taking the aggressively petty route instead of falsely registering their pets as service animals

toastyglow

I love how everyone intentionally interpreted this not as “your dog must be small” but “your dog must be in a bag”

evermore-fashion

Lazaro Spring 2019 Bridal Collection

gallusrostromegalus

This dress has everything:

-cool witch feather trim for a “I’m totally prepared to curse your family for seven generations over minor slights” aesthetic.

- shimmering effects reminiscent of the cold and uncaring stars that won’t help that asshole now.

-corseted middle for my back pain, voluminous skirt because knowing if I actually have legs is a privilege

-FUCKING POCKETS HOLY SHIT, for carrying knives and small animal bones.

All it needs now is a matching hat.

buzzfeed

18 Pictures That Prove Group Projects Are Pure Hell

systlin

This made me nearly bite a pencil in half in enraged memory.

@ THE REST OF MY ANCIENT HISTORY CLASS; Y’ALL ARE WELCOME FOR THAT FUCKIN A THE REST OF YOU DID NO GODDAMN WORK FOR

thebibliosphere

Oh man, so I know everyone hates group projects with ample good reason, but lemme just tell you something that happened to me in my final year of uni. My dad got real sick and was in and out of hospital numerous times, one time with a suspected heart attack. Which meant my mum ended up caring for my dad, and I wound up caring for my disabled brother, on top of working a part time job and going to university full time.

My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.

It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.

And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”

And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.

And I honestly wish things like this were taught in team building exercises, cause that’s what group projects in school are. They’re supposed to be teaching you how to work well with others and achieve a common goal, while at the same time totally skipping over the fundamentals of human interaction and how to engage socially with others, and it’s fucking bullshit.

nycs

and yet the world is silent…

srazars-main-blog-deactivated20

Reblog to spread this. This isn’t something to keep silent on.

ratherinterestingmilkshake

I would never want somethin like that to happen! Hell, i condemn it. But … I try to at least keep myself informed a little bit. Are there any good sources for this?

srazars-main-blog-deactivated20

Here (The Atlantic)

Here (Washington Post)

Here (The Guardian)

Here (Independent)

sourcedposts

Sources above are accurate and working. I have listed the above sources in chronological order, as well as adding sources I have found. The sources found by fandoms-of-a-tired-ravenclaw are marked with an asterisk (*)

Sources:

Chairs Urge Ambassador Branstad to Prioritize Mass Detention of Uyghurs, Including Family Members of Radio Free Asia Employees- Congress Executive Commission on China (April 3, 2018)

*Muslims Forced to Drink Alcohol and Eat Pork in China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps, Former Inmate Claims- The Independent (May 18, 2018) Covers the treatment the prisoners endure in the camps. Also has a short video of the witness, Omir Bekali, describing his time there.

*New Evidence Emerges of China Forcing Muslims into ‘Re-education’ Camps- The Washington Post (August 10, 2018) Another witness, Sayragul Sauytbay, speaks out. Also features some Chinese arrest statistics and explains the significance.

China Uighurs: One Million Held in Political Camps- BBC.com (August 10, 2018)

*China is Treating Islam like a Mental Illness- The Atlantic (August 28, 2018) This article links to many, many other articles and pieces about the camps, some of which are governmental sources. All the links work. One wants you to make an account to access it, but I have it saved. PM me if you want to see it.

UN Panel Confronts China Over Reports that it Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps- New York Times (August 28, 2018)

*Detention of Uighurs Must End, UN Tells China, Amid Claims of Prison Camps- The Guardian (August 30, 2018) There are many good links here, although one of them is in Chinese. They all work.

Internet Sleuths Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps, The Atlantic.com- (Sept. 15, 2018) - This article talks about the treatment the Uighurs get in the camp and talks about the risks some Chinese people are taking to find out the truth. It also goes over some of the solid evidence debunking Chinese claims that the camps do not exist, eyewitness accounts aside.

Uighurs Abroad Cut Off from Relatives in Chinese Detention, The LA Times, Sept. 17, 2018- More personal accounts

Action:

Here is a fundraiser started by an Uyghur with the aim to “ to start an organization, aim to seek practical action in Finnish foreign ministry, in the European Parliament and commission, to pressure the Chinese government to stop the concentration camp, stop the genocide of Uyghur Muslims. ”

The goal has been met, but the fundraiser ends October 31st, 2018.

Date Sourced: September 24, 2018

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

True crime podcast: Police say the suspect not only murdered his victims, but dismembered and ate their body parts piece by piece. I guess they had never heard of Blue Apron. Blue Apron provides dozens of delicious meals for

hermuis-blog

Girls get made fun of for everything might as well do what you want lol

firesuns-archive

not to be dramatic but this mentality literally freed me

lianabrooks

In high school I realized this and it broke my brain a little, but it was very freeing. I realized I would never do anything right in the eyes of everyone else. So if none of them could be happy, at least I could have fun.

I realize this broke all my female training, made me louder, less compliant, less likely to take the blame for men, less likely to apologize, and that all of that means there are many angry men crying in my wake because I didn’t fit the servile image they’d been taught to consume. But I did meet a better class of men who are thinkers and feminists. I made better friends. I had a better life.

So, please, do what you want.

friend-suggestions

my best friend: mentions we’re best friends

me: 💝? 💕?? 💓💕?? ? 💗? 💝💕💗? 💖💕💖❤️💗💛!!!!!

candy-cane-castiel

@princessdarth-vader

babyanimalgifs

missbuttercupifurnasty

So freaking adorable

adaswordlace

https://twitter.com/CriminelleLaw/status/1037511306906099712

Reminds me of my mom getting remarried several years ago, for about a weekend - dude waited until after the wedding to tell her he expected her at waiting at home with dinner waiting when he finished work.

I dunno, like I get that this version of manhood is “normal” but goddamn is it the most brittle, contemptable fuckin thing

parentheticalaside

When I was in college, we went to Albuquerque to visit my grandfather. We were just sitting on his patio, chatting, when he randomly looks at me and says, “You should pretend not to be smart so you can get a boyfriend.” I sat there, shocked at what he said, and he turns to my brother and demands, “Aren’t I right?” My brother looked at me all apologetic and goes, “When a girl pretends she’s not smart, I can tell, but I like it anyway because it shows she cares about me.”

My dad was there too. He just sat there, completely silent.

greenjudy

The only thing worse than being lonely is being lonely in a relationship.

robotpoppa

it’s-friday.avi

computervsworldarchive

gently, gently rotating kitten

melat0ne-in

Reblogging for hold music

kagaintheskywithdiamonds

I HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM MAKE A BLEP WITH HIS TONGUE CURLED UP LIKE THAT AJSDKLFJSDKLFSDJKL

princessdarth-vader

studying something you do as a hobby in university is confusing because you procrastinate your assignments by doing… the exact same thing as what’s expected of you in your assignment but can’t find it within yourself to also do your assignment