Teaching, Learning, Healing
Lincoln Stoller2019-06-15T11:51:24-07:00I draw a parallel between education and health. I believe teaching oneself and healing oneself are skills that enable one another.
Teaching What Teachers Can’t
Lincoln Stoller2019-06-04T10:02:29-07:00With caution against excessive immersion, action video games can help us learn, focus, and multitask.
Relearning to Sleep
Lincoln Stoller2019-05-27T00:20:14-07:00You can train your brain to function better during sleep. It’s a process of tuning down habitual tension and separating yourself from habitual conflict.
Evolution’s Choice
Lincoln Stoller2019-05-29T08:45:24-07:00When it comes to your health, winning seems the imperative, and it seems one must win at all costs. This is rarely true; it is rarely the case that your fate is sealed and you must play the game set before you.
Becoming Lucid
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-13T17:48:58-07:00"We all know a little about lucid dreaming: the fascinating idea of waking up in a dream with all your wits about you. Over the years I’ve read much about lucid dreaming, but I’ve been frustrated that it’s mostly portrayed as an amusement park ride. Surely, there has to be more to it than spectacle and entertainment..."
Three Forms of Stress
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-15T15:02:39-07:00"There are many forms of relaxation: mental, physical, visceral, temporal, pertaining to health, exercise, work, play, or relationships, for a start. These feel different, require different means, and have different ends, but we distinguish them
An Entirely Airborne Life Form
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-17T23:29:02-07:00"A long time ago, before I can even remember, I saw a picture of a balloon-like animal conjectured to live in the atmosphere of Jupiter. That image caught my imagination, and stuck with me... and now I have
The Reality of Illusion
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:11:12-07:00This piece is about what we think is real and the difference between sensation and feeling. It is about the worlds of imagination and dreams, and the process of making feelings into sensations, that is making dreams real.This confusion about real and imagined disease is just plain dumb. It is a fallacy that imagination is not real, it can have as much effect as any other perception. In fact, everything sensed through perception is an act of imagination.
Sleep Authority, and Why We Don’t Have It
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:17:05-07:00"One of the paradoxes of sleep is that the harder you try, the less you get. It would seem you are responsible, but lack the authority to procure it. The fundamental rule that authority must come with responsibility doesn't apply to sleep... It's a paradox for me too. I can see a person's problem, and what he or she needs. I could sell them an illusion that there is something they can do, but it would never work. What they need is not to do, and not to try. You cannot force your way into a sleeping state of mind..."
Evolve Change Revolution
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-17T23:31:46-07:00"If we don’t approach change correctly, we can’t make it happen. If you want to make better changes, you need a better understanding of how things change. This applies as much to your
Interpretation of Dreams
Lincoln Stoller2019-03-05T02:25:45-07:00"Reality consists of our assumptions about things we have not experienced: the common elements. We fill in the blanks by social contract, seeing the same things in a world of which we're mostly unaware. Everyday events are so familiar as to mean little. We 'think' strings of events and actions into stories flat and forward looking. And when we're finished building our flat story, with idiosyncrasies removed, we call it reality. The 'real world,' as opposed to the dream world..."
Seeing Stars
Lincoln Stoller2019-02-17T23:53:30-07:00"We talk about the lifetime of a system as the time over which it works, between its beginning and its end, and for stars that shine this is a long time. "What does it mean