Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Free Association

Found this list of words at http://subliminal.lunanina.com/. The word on the left is what is provided. The word on the right is the first word that comes to mind in response. By responding in this way, I might recall suppressed memories and thoughts that could illuminate my path. Let's see if it works.

  1. Found ::
    2. Discovered
  2. Male ::
    3. Female
  3. Spoken ::
    4. Quiet
  4. Life ::
    5. Death
  5. Tonight ::
    6. Sex
  6. Fingernail ::
    7. Scrape
  7. True ::
    8. False
  8. Give up ::
    9. Yes
  9. Shining ::
    10. Dull
  10. Everywhere ::
    11. Universe


For some reason I got stuck on "Spoken". Nothing popped out of my head so "quiet" may be sort of made up. The "Give up :: Yes" thing kind of bothers me. I suppose it indicates that depression still rules. But, then again, the "Tonight :: Sex" pair seems to indicate that I have a little optimism left. Other than those, I seem to focus on opposites. That's kind of Taoish, something that I've been reading a lot of lately. I can see that I'm going to have to get much better at this if it is going to be helpful.
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Anonymous said...

Well fellow warrior in life - I've done this week's mutterings as well. It takes some time to really get into why certain words seem to stand out for others. I think that somehow they all mean something like when you got stuck with "quiet" I'm taken back to a book I read where the man said that he saw a sign in rehab which read "silence = death" an end to everything, right? So he hated any type of silence, to him it meant he wasn't even real anymore. It was the ultimate punishment in his home to give the offending child the "silent treatment". He grew up being terrified and distrusting of anyone who employed silence as a weapon. Not likely anything to do with your reasons but still - something to think about. The psyche is a messed up place.

April 25, 2007 at 8:59 AM

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