inessential.com: The Point of View of the Mouse

When I want to scare myself, I look at my cat and imagine being a mouse.

#cats

What Makes Our Brains Feel Trust?

Trust is part of your brain’s default setting, but the feeling may not be as noble as your teachers made it out to be. Neuroscience has an explanation that relies on a lot of fascinating biochemistry.

I’ve often thought that I’m eager to trust people because it lights up a certain part of my brain. Now we have medical proof, Dr. Lecter.

#science

When I’m about to fall asleep, my subconscious starts talking to me, starts showing me imagery overlaid in transparency atop my conscious mind.

Example: last night I was thinking about the pink kitchen and that I was glad that project was winding down. Just thinking about the new shelves I put up and imaging them in my head, not concentrating hard, more of a relaxed review.

Then I heard a voice say in absolute seriousness, “Your highness, how will we get the horses up the mountain?” The images of the shelves soon were overtaken with a view pointed up, pointed toward two men on horseback, on a forested hill — close enough for me to see their facial expressions, far enough away that the horses filled the frame. It was like a scene from a movie, I was only watching, not participating.

I didn’t see the highness and the scene ended as abruptly as it began. My conscious mind pulled me back to complete and total reality and I started to think about how powerful our subconscious minds really are.

The men from the mini-dream were from the Holy Grail, the two in the picture but the Black Knight had all his limbs.

Same setting and everything but a little more green. I hadn’t thought about this movie in years, hadn’t thought about royalty or knights or horses for maybe over a month. I have no idea where this pocket of data came from in me, or why it bubbled to the surface last night.

Dreams are a mystery surrounded in shrubbery.

#confessional

We repainted our kitchen pink but I’m not sure what to do with this 1900s tech.

I wanted to leave it as-is but was over-ruled.

#photos #homeimprovement

16 Retro Posters Depict The Interiors Of Classic Films

In his new illustration series, Barcelona-based artist Federico Babina draws the interior architecture of all your favorite movies, from the haunted hotel in The Shining to James Bond’s bachelor pad.

Way cool but the Clockwork Orange piece might be too much if you have kids. :)

#meanwhile #homeimprovement #theshining

The above is an #email that I got from GoToWebinar.

It looks bad. I mean what’s with that weird, over the top header shadow?

And the photo of Mike Agron.. Is his neck broken? Why the poor head cut out? And even worse is the silver-to-white gradient behind him.

The topic of their webinar is “Winning Minds and Markets with Thought Leadership Webinars.” Sorry but that head shot looks like he’s got mental problems.

Instead of titling this “For the win” they should’ve used “For the.. Wait, what the fuck bullshit market campaign are we running here? I’ve seen better ads for butt sump pump cream.”

#fail

Bill O’Reilly Is to Journalism What the WWE Is to Fighting

His Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Obama was faux-tough and filled with questions that were virtually guaranteed to fail.

The title alone is a gem.

I wish there was some place like Chili’s but with good food.

#foodies #thesimpsons

Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew Unloads Stockpile of Star Wars Set Photos

Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars, took to Twitter Thursday night and unleashed a veritable trove of annotated behind-the-scenes photos from the original trilogy. Some of these shots you’ll no doubt recognize, but many of them were new to us — like this ridiculously adorable photo of 11-year-old Warwick Davis!

Way cool. 8)

I’ve had a crush on Leia since 1977.

#movies #starwars

White House Must Address Petition to Deport Justin Bieber

After topping more than 100,000 signatures on “We the People,” the White House will now have to respond to a petition to “Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card.” As of this afternoon, the petition actually had 104,700 signatures and climbing.

❤️ #meanwhile