sleepyjz

Hey there, I am a university student taking Biomedical Science and a minor in Neuroscience, with a specific revere for Pharmacology - a path that I am currently pursuing.

I like music. I like playing the piano. I like Books. I like sleeping, or at least trying to. I really do like long walks on the beach, I tend to have odd, specific interests in many psychological and neurological phenomena. I like many other things I can't think of right now. I like weird things. I like stamping out dysphoric, amygdala charged feelings I used to get from hearing strange music when I was young by finding such music and relentlessly listening to it in depth and ponder the reasons why I responded in such a way. I can thank the noises from Eco the Dolphin and the waveforms of an oscilloscope for part of the inspiration behind that action. I have had a strong, visual music-induced synesthesia that used to freak me out as a child, but now I have much greater control and am always looking for tracks that give me a large response. I am not a nerd, just some guy exploring what piques his interest, and the explanation of those interests tend to lean towards run-on sentences that all just end up undermining an attempted contradictory-free autobiographical synopsis here, on last.fm. I do not like referring to myself in third person - I find it arrogant and uncalled for. I also apologize if you interpret my long stream-of-consciousness-like bio as narcissistic - I will not be one of those last.fm hard asses who only have friends because other users do not want to be belittled and must become friends with the enemy to buffer future spats and petty ego damage. Opinion is opinion, don't start shit. I'm not lecturing. Ok yes, granted some people are 100% right in certain things but that's beside the point. I hate my upside-down 'L' shaped Top Artist list. That's right, skip to the end with the fancy pictures because this body of text is too long for some :p
I welcome different sizes of lateral ventricles. I am done :)

I am currently reading:

The Pale King (David Foster Wallace), A Natural History of the Piano (Stuart Isacoff), Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (David Eagleman, Richard E. Cytowic)

Book recently read:
Thinking in Pictures (Temple Grandin), Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter), The Shallows; What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace),The Mind's Eye (Oliver Sacks), Collision With the Infinite (Suzanne Segal), Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks), I am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter)


Movies I identify with: The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Koyaanisqatsi, Naqoyqatsi.
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Images courtesy of Philippe Ramette
http://xippas.com/en/i/artiste/philippe_ramette