lim(sub)i->LAN

[monkey0506]

lim(sub)
i->LAN

the LIMit of the data speeds of a given internet service provider's SUBscriber as Interference approaches their LAN. Except not really*.

Subliminal messages. What is it about the human psyche that makes it such that we can so easily fortify ourselves against that which we perceive to be obvious, yet never even realize we've left the back door wide open? Clearly if something is apparent then it's simpler to consciously decide for oneself what to think of it; however the answer is still somewhat lacking when really faced with the grim reality of how malleable the human mind truly is.

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Spoiler

lim(sub)i->LAN = lim sub i lan = sub lim i nal

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I'm a victim of my own frivolities. I am a fan of the Kingdom Hearts game series. I own both KH and KH2. The last two weeks however it's evolved from an issue of moderate fandom into a state of complete blithering obsession. I think about the game while I'm at home, while I'm at work, while I'm driving...and I can't seem to get it out of my mind. Inexplicably, I don't know why. But it has driven me to the point that I've taken up collecting the KH Trading Card Game, and purchased a rather nice scroll/wall poster. But I've been contemplating the reason behind it all and I think I may have discovered the cause.

I have a habit of leaving my music player on all the time, even while I sleep. It just constantly shuffles through my library. As part of a practical joke of the parodic birthday gift variety, I happen to have the entire KH2 soundtrack saved to my music library. So, it would seem, I happened to have inadvertently brainwashed myself.

I'm not entirely certain that the damages to my mind are reparable or even that I'd want to.

Conversely to the whole argument, I haven't been running out and stocking up on My Chemical Romance, Amber Pacific, or Taking Back Sunday (the bands marked as most-listened to by Zune) merchandise. So it's possible I'm just crazy. Or I'm a closet uberfanboy who's only just coming out. Hopefully both! ...uhh...what?

So does anyone else have any experience in being brainwashed?

P.S. Despite the date, this isn't a joke.

[ThreeOhFour]

I listen to music all the time while I sleep. Often I'll have the same "sleeping album" for a month or two, meaning it gets a few hundred/few thousand subconcious listens.

There were times where I'd have the same "sleeping album" for a long time (possibly up to 6 months) and I never rushed out to buy tons of merchandise or any such thing of the bands. Unless their other albums count.

So perhaps it's best to find another cause for your obsession. Or perhaps this tinfoil nightcap actually works...

[Babar]

Every time I get some new music, I set the "Recently added" to play while I go to sleep. I'm clearly aware that I did listen to THIS song before falling asleep, and I woke up to THIS song, but somehow, I remember the ones in between. I've learnt the definition of "Mandelbrot Set" now in my sleep because of this, and can recite it from memory:

Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
Let Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
Let Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z's should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

I used to record definitions I had to learn to tape and play them as I slept, but they didn't really help. Probably because they all had my sister screaming in the background (from behind my locked door) "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THERE, BABAR?! WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?!", at which point I'd burst out laughing.

[miguel]

You guys do know that you're harming your brain, don't you?
You should relax and have a full night of sleep and shut down all systems, if the ear listens then the brain has to process the sounds then it will not rest.
Goggle about it and find out why sleeping is so important.