exactly, exactly, exactly!
i always off the top of my head say picasso or einstein. picasso for the art, and sure..larger than life personality and ego ....and einstein for that sheer brain power, most especially b/c it is SO outside my own real abilities. but you GOT it chica....that's what i was thinking, and still think, on the topic. but even looking small-scale...it'd be a helluva trip evn with the average joe...a whole new mind! :shock:
norm.......that could be VERY trippy!
oh for sure, doesn't have to be someone famous. even an average person, just to really see things through their eyes, colored with their own experiences, to feel passionate about the things they love. it's one thing to try to empathize with someone but to actually experience it would be neat. the brain is a fascinating organ, if i ever had the stomach for medicine, that'd be the field i'd want to delve into. the universe between our ears
I think that's partially what great novels do for the reader.
They allow you to hear the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We get to live inside the minds of the fictional people. They may be like us or nothing at all like us and we enjoy knowing what's inside.
yep, i'd pick to be a woman for a day.... i'd get my funbags out to guys on the street and stuff... possibly buy a cucumber... that kinda thing... thats if i ever left the house that is.
LOL. I was gonna say I'd like to be a man for a day just to see what having a penis is like.
I think that's partially what great novels do for the reader.
They allow you to hear the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We get to live inside the minds of the fictional people. They may be like us or nothing at all like us and we enjoy knowing what's inside.
VERY true!
tho i stil think it would be damn cool to be able to do 'live'...! :P
and i was thinking, it's actualy kinda sorta like the flick being john malcovich. similar in a sense anyway.....tho not exactly, as john knew someone was in his head :P...and those IN his head knew it at the time too, so not quite the *total experience* of BEING someone, even for a few hours...
I'd get an IQ test and release the results. Then commit some crime that is likely to result in a sentence inside a maximum security prison- like head round to Lionel Richie's place to smack that guy upside down. Or rape him. Whatever works.
115 bucks for half a haircut by a novice? I want my money back!
it wasn't... it was funny... hence the winky.. and the smiley.
fucking relax
who's excited? :?
thought it was a genuine question....thus trying to be helpful.
my posts must be a laugh riot for you then, chock FULL of numerous typos, always! :P
of course, i'd actually be interested in if you would truly ever wish to be someone else, just to see what it's like? in a serious way. ya know, the thread topic.
*hmmm...funny. *I* am the one who is pedantic, and obsessed with spelling/grammar, etc.....yet it seems to be YOU who contiually points it out to others? interesting.
He's making fun of your typo since you wanted to be Einstein, the smartest man on the planet.
I thought it was funny myself. Although sometimes I think I'm one of the few that gets his jokes. :shock:
I'd like to be Bill Gates for a day. That could be fun.
yep, i'd pick to be a woman for a day.... i'd get my funbags out to guys on the street and stuff... possibly buy a cucumber... that kinda thing... thats if i ever left the house that is.
what are you gonna make a cucumber salad or something? thats weird.
as my last response didnt meet the criteria for an all ages forum and so therefore *somebody* with a grudge reported it... probably some Einstein... then lets just imagine i wish to be a hot lady... i would still buy a cucumber... and i wouldnt make salad...
let your imaginiations run wild
p.s. if you are under 16... yes i would make a cucumber salad.
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oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
it wasn't... it was funny... hence the winky.. and the smiley.
fucking relax
who's excited? :?
thought it was a genuine question....thus trying to be helpful.
my posts must be a laugh riot for you then, chock FULL of numerous typos, always! :P
of course, i'd actually be interested in if you would truly ever wish to be someone else, just to see what it's like? in a serious way. ya know, the thread topic.
*hmmm...funny. *I* am the one who is pedantic, and obsessed with spelling/grammar, etc.....yet it seems to be YOU who contiually points it out to others? interesting.
He's making fun of your typo since you wanted to be Einstein, the smartest man on the planet.
I thought it was funny myself. Although sometimes I think I'm one of the few that gets his jokes. :shock:
I'd like to be Bill Gates for a day. That could be fun.
thank you...
it was the irony of wanting to be Einstein and then not being able to type out the words "having the thought process' ... which i thought was ironic... considering the guy 'thought' a lot.
ach it was funny... but she had to spoil it...
i wish I could be someone who is unable to step back and have a little laugh at themselves instead of being uber-uptight about tiny things.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
it wasn't... it was funny... hence the winky.. and the smiley.
fucking relax
who's excited? :?
thought it was a genuine question....thus trying to be helpful.
my posts must be a laugh riot for you then, chock FULL of numerous typos, always! :P
of course, i'd actually be interested in if you would truly ever wish to be someone else, just to see what it's like? in a serious way. ya know, the thread topic.
*hmmm...funny. *I* am the one who is pedantic, and obsessed with spelling/grammar, etc.....yet it seems to be YOU who contiually points it out to others? interesting.
He's making fun of your typo since you wanted to be Einstein, the smartest man on the planet.
I thought it was funny myself. Although sometimes I think I'm one of the few that gets his jokes. :shock:
I'd like to be Bill Gates for a day. That could be fun.
i see that now. at the time, i simply read it at face value, thus clarified. and so it goes. :P
and i still really like the idea of trying out einstein's or almost anyone's thought process....tho i don't think i would like trying out someone truly cruel, a serial killer, someone like that.....THAT sort of mind i think would be far too scary/disturbing, even to gain some 'understanding', to want to try out even for a few hours.
I'd get an IQ test and release the results. Then commit some crime that is likely to result in a sentence inside a maximum security prison- like head round to Lionel Richie's place to smack that guy upside down. Or rape him. Whatever works.
actually, you would simply think and do...whatever paris hilton - or whoever's mind you inhabit - would normally do. that's the whole point. not to control someone else's thoughts or actions, or be 'aware' you are them at the time, just to BE them...for the experience of it. by some great miracle after the fact, you would then become aware you got to experience someone else's mind. :P
of course, i realize..a joke....but just sayin' what the intial premise of this whole thought was about.
I think that's partially what great novels do for the reader.
They allow you to hear the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We get to live inside the minds of the fictional people. They may be like us or nothing at all like us and we enjoy knowing what's inside.
VERY true!
tho i stil think it would be damn cool to be able to do 'live'...! :P
and i was thinking, it's actualy kinda sorta like the flick being john malcovich. similar in a sense anyway.....tho not exactly, as john knew someone was in his head :P...and those IN his head knew it at the time too, so not quite the *total experience* of BEING someone, even for a few hours...
Yeah. Now that you mention it, that's the premise of many silly movies too. Like Freaky Friday where the mother and the daughter switch bodies and Big where Tom Hanks is a kid in a grown up body...
I think that's partially what great novels do for the reader.
They allow you to hear the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We get to live inside the minds of the fictional people. They may be like us or nothing at all like us and we enjoy knowing what's inside.
VERY true!
tho i stil think it would be damn cool to be able to do 'live'...! :P
and i was thinking, it's actualy kinda sorta like the flick being john malcovich. similar in a sense anyway.....tho not exactly, as john knew someone was in his head :P...and those IN his head knew it at the time too, so not quite the *total experience* of BEING someone, even for a few hours...
Yeah. Now that you mention it, that's the premise of many silly movies too. Like Freaky Friday where the mother and the daughter switch bodies and Big where Tom Hanks is a kid in a grown up body...
well yes and no, b/c even being john mahlkovich doesn't quite fully encompass it. freaky friday i don't really know, but big...love that movie! and yes, while he gets to experience being an adult whil having the mind of a child, he's not exactly getting to *be* someone else, just himself, older. there also was a forgettable meg ryan/alec baldwin movie when she switches bodies with an old man, but yet again...they are still themselves, just in other bodies. i am all about the switching of minds! there's where the real fascination lies for me.
but yet again...they are still themselves, just in other bodies. i am all about the switching of minds! there's where the real fascination lies for me.
Oh, you're right. The movies I mentioned still had the same brains. :?
I wonder though how a person would remember if they actually SWITCHED minds with someone else? Maybe you'd need both minds in there to observe and remember? :shock: ??
but yet again...they are still themselves, just in other bodies. i am all about the switching of minds! there's where the real fascination lies for me.
Oh, you're right. The movies I mentioned still had the same brains. :?
I wonder though how a person would remember if they actually SWITCHED minds with someone else? Maybe you'd need both minds in there to observe and remember? :shock: ??
yes, i know..that's the tricky part.
since it was my little idea, haha, i said earlier it would be one of those miraculous, karmic things....that you would just go back to your own mind *like that* and simply remember the experience and know it was real.
and your post got me thinking, always a dangerous thing .....and i cannot think of ANY film, or book, that really has a character do this. i should copyright my idea and do something with it. hahaha. i think the real reason is a. it would be very difficult to film b. it would be hard to describe for a reader to truly 'feel' like it had occured, especially b/c as you rightly point out - and i thought of that too from the get-go - how would one real remember?
eh well...just hypothesis in any case. and yea, thinking of such things before 9 am, on the train, and totally straight! wtf?
I'd like to be Peter North for a day, to see what it's like to.....uh...nevermind.
Seriously...I do wonder what it would be like to see the world thru someone elses eyes....who knows how much our perceptions vary? Even things as simple as colour or sensitivity to touch, light, etc...
I'd like to be Peter North for a day, to see what it's like to.....uh...nevermind.
Seriously...I do wonder what it would be like to see the world thru someone elses eyes....who knows how much our perceptions vary? Even things as simple as colour or sensitivity to touch, light, etc...
obviously, i am missing your joke b/c i have no idea who peter north is. :oops: tho i can guess where it was going.....;)
as to the rest...EXACTLY! it's ALL those little details, and just the random, unique thought processes i think no matter who's mind, it would be such a trip simply b/c it's unlike your own mind! and then if a truly 'great mind'......whoa! imagine wtf goes on in the mind of stephen hawking? :shock: and, as i said in my first post.....just to imagine what someone thinks from an entirely different culture from you, a different gender, age, whatever....all those variations, large and small, would be utterly amazing to me! granted, this shit can never happen but just thinking about it really gets my mind going.
I'd like to be Peter North for a day, to see what it's like to.....uh...nevermind.
Seriously...I do wonder what it would be like to see the world thru someone elses eyes....who knows how much our perceptions vary? Even things as simple as colour or sensitivity to touch, light, etc...
obviously, i am missing your joke b/c i have no idea who peter north is. :oops: tho i can guess where it was going.....;)
as to the rest...EXACTLY! it's ALL those little details, and just the random, unique thought processes i think no matter who's mind, it would be such a trip simply b/c it's unlike your own mind! and then if a truly 'great mind'......whoa! imagine wtf goes on in the mind of stephen hawking? :shock: and, as i said in my first post.....just to imagine what someone thinks from an entirely different culture from you, a different gender, age, whatever....all those variations, large and small, would be utterly amazing to me! granted, this shit can never happen but just thinking about it really gets my mind going.
A quick google search will solve the Peter North dilema...I'd bet you'd recognize him...whether you'll admit that or not...hehe....following any of the search results would probably demonstrate his...errr....special abilities
Ya, it would be pretty cool to see the world thru someone else's eyes...I think it would do the world a lot of good if we could switch places with people in less fortunate countries for a day.
I'd like to be Peter North for a day, to see what it's like to.....uh...nevermind.
Seriously...I do wonder what it would be like to see the world thru someone elses eyes....who knows how much our perceptions vary? Even things as simple as colour or sensitivity to touch, light, etc...
obviously, i am missing your joke b/c i have no idea who peter north is. :oops: tho i can guess where it was going.....;)
as to the rest...EXACTLY! it's ALL those little details, and just the random, unique thought processes i think no matter who's mind, it would be such a trip simply b/c it's unlike your own mind! and then if a truly 'great mind'......whoa! imagine wtf goes on in the mind of stephen hawking? :shock: and, as i said in my first post.....just to imagine what someone thinks from an entirely different culture from you, a different gender, age, whatever....all those variations, large and small, would be utterly amazing to me! granted, this shit can never happen but just thinking about it really gets my mind going.
A quick google search will solve the Peter North dilema...I'd bet you'd recognize him...whether you'll admit that or not...hehe....following any of the search results would probably demonstrate his...errr....special abilities
Ya, it would be pretty cool to see the world thru someone else's eyes...I think it would do the world a lot of good if we could switch places with people in less fortunate countries for a day.
i kinda got that idea, merely from context....a quick google search on him while at work i shall think perhaps unwise.
and yes......absolutely! i was also thinking, imagine being in the mind of someone who has total brain function, and yet otherwise, physically, completely paralyzed. wow. the film the diving bell and the butterfly, based on the book of the same name, written by a man in that exact circumstance (he dictated the book thru blinking his eyes!) was just a small glimpse into his mind.....tragic and fascinating! also kinda what i was thinking about being in the mind of someone from an entirely different culture......would give you a whole new perspective i should think! it all fits well within the adage of 'you cannot know a man until you've walked a few miles in his shoes'......same idea, just a better picture...being in his or her mind!
I'd get an IQ test and release the results. Then commit some crime that is likely to result in a sentence inside a maximum security prison- like head round to Lionel Richie's place to smack that guy upside down. Or rape him. Whatever works.
actually, you would simply think and do...whatever paris hilton - or whoever's mind you inhabit - would normally do. that's the whole point. not to control someone else's thoughts or actions, or be 'aware' you are them at the time, just to BE them...for the experience of it. by some great miracle after the fact, you would then become aware you got to experience someone else's mind. :P
of course, i realize..a joke....but just sayin' what the intial premise of this whole thought was about.
The problem with this is I'm not convinced Paris Hilton has the 'thinking' bit mastered. I might as well be someone in a permanently vegetative state :P
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They allow you to hear the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We get to live inside the minds of the fictional people. They may be like us or nothing at all like us and we enjoy knowing what's inside.
VERY true!
tho i stil think it would be damn cool to be able to do 'live'...! :P
and i was thinking, it's actualy kinda sorta like the flick being john malcovich. similar in a sense anyway.....tho not exactly, as john knew someone was in his head :P...and those IN his head knew it at the time too, so not quite the *total experience* of BEING someone, even for a few hours...
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
I'd get an IQ test and release the results. Then commit some crime that is likely to result in a sentence inside a maximum security prison- like head round to Lionel Richie's place to smack that guy upside down. Or rape him. Whatever works.
He's making fun of your typo since you wanted to be Einstein, the smartest man on the planet.
I thought it was funny myself. Although sometimes I think I'm one of the few that gets his jokes. :shock:
I'd like to be Bill Gates for a day. That could be fun.
as my last response didnt meet the criteria for an all ages forum and so therefore *somebody* with a grudge reported it... probably some Einstein... then lets just imagine i wish to be a hot lady... i would still buy a cucumber... and i wouldnt make salad...
let your imaginiations run wild
p.s. if you are under 16... yes i would make a cucumber salad.
thank you...
it was the irony of wanting to be Einstein and then not being able to type out the words "having the thought process' ... which i thought was ironic... considering the guy 'thought' a lot.
ach it was funny... but she had to spoil it...
i wish I could be someone who is unable to step back and have a little laugh at themselves instead of being uber-uptight about tiny things.
i see that now. at the time, i simply read it at face value, thus clarified. and so it goes. :P
and i still really like the idea of trying out einstein's or almost anyone's thought process....tho i don't think i would like trying out someone truly cruel, a serial killer, someone like that.....THAT sort of mind i think would be far too scary/disturbing, even to gain some 'understanding', to want to try out even for a few hours.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
actually, you would simply think and do...whatever paris hilton - or whoever's mind you inhabit - would normally do. that's the whole point. not to control someone else's thoughts or actions, or be 'aware' you are them at the time, just to BE them...for the experience of it. by some great miracle after the fact, you would then become aware you got to experience someone else's mind. :P
of course, i realize..a joke....but just sayin' what the intial premise of this whole thought was about.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
That's exactly who I was thinking of!!!!! And not so much for the cerebral revelations, But, well let's say, I'd desire a more tangible experience!
Yeah. Now that you mention it, that's the premise of many silly movies too. Like Freaky Friday where the mother and the daughter switch bodies and Big where Tom Hanks is a kid in a grown up body...
well yes and no, b/c even being john mahlkovich doesn't quite fully encompass it. freaky friday i don't really know, but big...love that movie! and yes, while he gets to experience being an adult whil having the mind of a child, he's not exactly getting to *be* someone else, just himself, older. there also was a forgettable meg ryan/alec baldwin movie when she switches bodies with an old man, but yet again...they are still themselves, just in other bodies. i am all about the switching of minds! there's where the real fascination lies for me.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Oh, you're right. The movies I mentioned still had the same brains. :?
I wonder though how a person would remember if they actually SWITCHED minds with someone else? Maybe you'd need both minds in there to observe and remember? :shock: ??
yes, i know..that's the tricky part.
since it was my little idea, haha, i said earlier it would be one of those miraculous, karmic things....that you would just go back to your own mind *like that* and simply remember the experience and know it was real.
and your post got me thinking, always a dangerous thing
eh well...just hypothesis in any case. and yea, thinking of such things before 9 am, on the train, and totally straight! wtf?
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Seriously...I do wonder what it would be like to see the world thru someone elses eyes....who knows how much our perceptions vary? Even things as simple as colour or sensitivity to touch, light, etc...
obviously, i am missing your joke b/c i have no idea who peter north is. :oops: tho i can guess where it was going.....;)
as to the rest...EXACTLY! it's ALL those little details, and just the random, unique thought processes i think no matter who's mind, it would be such a trip simply b/c it's unlike your own mind! and then if a truly 'great mind'......whoa! imagine wtf goes on in the mind of stephen hawking? :shock: and, as i said in my first post.....just to imagine what someone thinks from an entirely different culture from you, a different gender, age, whatever....all those variations, large and small, would be utterly amazing to me! granted, this shit can never happen
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
A quick google search will solve the Peter North dilema...I'd bet you'd recognize him...whether you'll admit that or not...hehe....following any of the search results would probably demonstrate his...errr....special abilities
Ya, it would be pretty cool to see the world thru someone else's eyes...I think it would do the world a lot of good if we could switch places with people in less fortunate countries for a day.
i kinda got that idea, merely from context....a quick google search on him while at work i shall think perhaps unwise.
and yes......absolutely! i was also thinking, imagine being in the mind of someone who has total brain function, and yet otherwise, physically, completely paralyzed. wow. the film the diving bell and the butterfly, based on the book of the same name, written by a man in that exact circumstance (he dictated the book thru blinking his eyes!) was just a small glimpse into his mind.....tragic and fascinating! also kinda what i was thinking about being in the mind of someone from an entirely different culture......would give you a whole new perspective i should think! it all fits well within the adage of 'you cannot know a man until you've walked a few miles in his shoes'......same idea, just a better picture...being in his or her mind!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow