What if the very fabric of reality between individuals is different?

 What if the very way a person perceives their existence varies far more than we ever considered?

By that, somewhat convoluted, question I need to ask if you could talk to someone's mind and experience their thought processes, might they vastly different than yours? I have been thinking about this for a long time as I find myself considering why people behave the way they do. Especially when they are unhappy and yet refuse to change their ways even when given explicit information and avenues out of their situation. I've met people with such vastly different perceptions of the world and ways of going about their daily lives, that I'm beginning to read the question the the supposed "shared human experience"great it might go a long way to explaining the vast differences between people. I'm considering this way down at the fundamentals of the thought process.

If those fundamental building blocks of our reality are in themselves remarkably diverse and unique to each person, then indeed we are all aliens and only normal in the truest sense in relation to our own perceptions.

It is a very intriguing question, and I suspect one that we will ultimately have the answer to. The way technology is evolving I am sure that we will get to a stage where we can begin to decode the millions of impulses of the brain and really look at the fundamental inner workings. I hope to be around to see that, indeed to experience it. Imagine being able to "plug-ins your best friends head". Could you comprehend what you found there? With the way of processing experience be so different, or would it be something familiar.

I hope the technologies which are developed in this regard don't do too much translation, I think there's a lot to be learned from the raw experience. The very things that make us different may indeed be the best teachers.

For those of you that like things in video format. Here's me talking about this very issue. Although things have occurred to me well up in writing this text and things occurred to me while I was doing the video. So like the article each has its own point of view, for lack of a better phrase. Enjoy the differences

Take care Patrick

 

Moods: What are they trying to tell us?

 

Whenever you hear a discussion about someone's mood, or indeed, the topic of being "moody" it is always in the present tense or very recent past. People say things like "Why are they so moody?" and "Their moods are unpredictable." More often than not there is an implied negative connotation along with these statements. Like the mood itself is a bad thing.

Well, let's take the longer approach and include the present and the past. There probably is a message here. Something these repeating moods are trying to tell the person. Looking at "moods" in this kind of light can give one far greater perspective. First off to consider the long term aspect means that you have to pause and consider things. That in itself can be very beneficial. Breaking up automatic routines which in the modern world we all fall into. If when you stop and take notice, the mood itself begins to change, then perhaps your mood is trying to say "This routine is not doing you any good." However up until you stopped and took notice, you were in a foul mood. I mean what better way to stop someone from doing something they truly don't want to do then to put them in a bad mood. However people are also expert at ignoring the signs and moods which are intended to get them to change their behaviours. This is particularly true in the modern world where automatic nonthinking behaviours are encouraged..

I really think "a mood" is often nature's way of getting you to change something you need to change in order to grow. What society and people individually have to do is make time in their day to break automatic routines and check-in with their moods and other signals their body may have. To literally get a dialogue going. I am now convinced that far too many individuals put themselves on a one-way track to all sorts of problems because they are not used to dealing with change.

Instead of dealing with the issue which created the mood, they medicate. This produces a spiral which is going in the outer wrong direction. If you can deal with small issues before they become big then you grow, almost by default.

Then there's the other side of this issue: When people find themselves in a good mood, they happily go along for the ride, but they don't consider do any major degree why they are in a good mood. You could think of the situation like a shopper who doesn't look at their credit card or the receipt when they buy something. They just indulge blindly. This good mood could have tons of positive information contained within. Don't miss this opportunity. There could be all sorts of things that could be later used to help one avoid slipping into a bad mood. Or at the very least, minimize the impact of such a mood shift.

So the message here is pay attention to your moods. They are one of the gateways to understanding oneself.

For those of you that appreciate or like this in a video format. Here it is.

 Take care Patrick, and as always leave comments or questions.

Summer Photos 2012 to 2023

 (This article is long. Consisting of 41 photos and text.  If it is not displaying fully click the article title or click here.)

Note: In order to incorporate all the photographic information, some of the behind-the-scenes code needed to be edited directly. In other words a human was involved in the formatting of this post, namely myself and there may be errors.

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 When I came up with this idea a few weeks ago, it sounded so straightforward; find some of my favourite pictures from the last 10 or 11 years and created a slideshow. Sounds simple right? Well the devil's in the details and it's a good thing I love details 😀. Because then I thought,  "Why not allow everyone to download the original photographs.", and that thought led to, "I wonder if there's a way to export all the photo information?"

Well, the answer to all of the above was "Yes". The only question was how much time I had to put in to this little endeavour. But it was too late, I had started a plan and 41 photographs later, combined with some old-school trickery to extract the information from the JPEG files, I had the beginnings. 

The video had its own ups and downs. I of course decided to do the whole thing in 4K. Meaning the 13 minute video took over 2 hours to render. and I had to do it several times for various technical reasons.

All in all, it's about 35 hours worth of work. But it was worth it. I will add some comments to the photographs I remember details. Some are in the lower mainland of BC and others are taken from a trip to Trail British Columbia in about 2012. While others come from roaming around Vancouver and Surrey.

Better pictures for you...

"Blogger", the website host, tends to re-compresses any photo uploaded to it and there is a loss of quality, you will note that each picture has a filename below. Clicking on the file name will download the highest resolution photograph I have on my Google Drive. You are welcome to use them in whatever way you wish with no attribution necessary. I hereby place all of the photos in this post in the public domain.

I have adjusted some of the photos in the video version to make it work visually better. The downloaded versions are untouched and were created using the two cameras from Canon. Namely the Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III for the newer photographs and the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS for the older images. (These links will lead you to the "Canon camera Museum")

The Video: Summer Photos from 2012 to 2023

So first, here is the 13 minute video which is basically a slideshow. and again it is yours to do with as you wish with no strings attached.

You can watch it below, or you can download the file directly from here to have your own copy, but be aware of a few things if choosing to download the file itself:

• This is the original large video source file. It is 2.73 GB in size, meaning that it will take a while to download.
  
  
• Unlike playing in through the YouTube window below, which automatically adjusts, to your devices capabilities this is a 4K video. Meaning that it may not play on all devices.
  
  
• It may be necessary on some devices to right click, or tap and hold, the above download link in order to actually get the file to download rather than play.

The Original Individual Untouched Photos