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(Written at about 2am, no sleep yet…hahahaha! It would have been posted earlier but the internet connections aren’t cooperating. Boo!)

I just read the article Dreams: Night School a while ago. It offered an interesting point on why we dream.

From the title of the article, dreaming is a form of “night school.” We are able to rehearse difficult to life-threatening situations before possibly experiencing it in real life. This agrees with the fact that we don’t only need physical preparation but mental preparation as well. It doesn’t seem like much practice since we forget some of the other dreams.

This idea really shifted my perspective on nightmares. It makes so much sense since dreams seem and really feel real. Sometimes, they seem so real that I wake up just to get myself disappointed, hoping the dream was real.

“Anyone who’s ever played too much Tetris knows you can start having Tetris dreams.”

I’m guilty of that! Hahaha! So why people dream about vampires, zombies, Tetris blocks and all these imaginary stuff? We practice! It’s just that we get them with what is real. Hahahahaha!

“Dreaming is a sensitive system that tries to pay much attention to the threatening cues in our environment,” Revonsuo concludes. “Their function is to protect and prepare us.”

“Yes,” says Harvard’s Barrett, “dreams are worrying about disasters. But they’re also planning for nice things and they’re fantasizing and they’re problem solving.”

She contends that the purpose of dreaming is “as broad as all waking thought. That’s why I say dreams are really just thinking in a different biochemical state.”

Hooray to the uncensored vividness that makes little to no sense at all! Bwahahahaha!

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Someone commented on Awit ng Pag-ibig XX and I just had to check out what she had translated. At first I thought it was Love Sonnet XLIV and so I was excited to read it. After reading the sonnet, I realized that I was wrong but I was glad I was. Now, I have another poem added to my favorites!

Hindi Kita Iniibig Kung Hindi Lamang sa Dahilang Iniibig Kita
(isinalin ni JuanaEkis mula sa I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You ni Pablo Neruda)

Hindi kita iniibig kung hindi lamang sa dahilang iniibig kita
Tumutungo ako mula sa pagkasi hanggang sa di-pagkasi,
Sa paghihintay hanggang sa pag-iwan
Binabaybay ng aking puso ang lamig at liyab

Iniiibig kita lamang at sapagkat ikaw ang aking nag-iisang mahal;
Malalim kitang kinamumuhian, at ang ika’y kamuhian,
Yumukod sa iyo, at ang sukatan ng aking di-nagmamaliw na pag-ibig
Ay sa hindi kita lubusang matanto subalit bulag kitang minamahal.

Maaring lalao’y tupukin ng liwanag ng Enero
Ang yaring puso, gamit ang malupit niyang
Sinag, at nakaw ang susi ng aking tunay na pagkapayapa.

Sa dakong ito, ako ang siyang
Namamatay, tanging ako lamang, at mamamatay akong umiibig, sapagkat iniibig kita
Sapagkat iniibig kita, irog ko, sa apoy at laman.

Now, here’s the English version:

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it’s you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

And finally, here it is in its original form:

No te quiero sino porque te quiero
y de quererte a no quererte llego
y de esperarte cuando no te espero
pasa mi corazón del frío al fuego.

Te quiero sólo porque a ti te quiero,
te odio sin fin, y odiándote te ruego,
y la medida de mi amor viajero
es no verte y amarte como un ciego.

Tal vez consumirá la luz de enero,
su rayo cruel, mi corazón entero,
robándome la llave del sosiego.

En esta historia sólo yo me muero
y moriré de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, amor, a sangre y fuego.

Oh how I absolutely love Pablo Neruda’s poetry!

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Today, I said goodbye to my Powershot G7.  It was handed down to my sister.

Today, I say hello to the Powershot G9!  RAW ftw!

Well, I had the G9 for about a week now but I haven’t touched it much. Now that I have given the G7 to my sister, I don’t have a camera to use unless I use the G9. (Well, there’s my phone’s built-in camera but that’s different…)

I just don’t want to bring it around much right now since I don’t have a case to put it in just yet…gah!

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Oh yeah! I just visited deviantART recently and saw that Gilad, one of my favorite photographers, has written some pretty interesting articles on photography (it’s under the Submitted News section).

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