November means NaNoWriMo time! I’ve had an idea brewing in my head for a few years now. At first, it came in the form of a play. In 2019, I wrote my Resurrection play. But the idea expanded into a question. The Question For NaNoWriMo 2021 What would it be like to live in the…
Category: Personal
Dual Colours for Audiovisal Entrainment: First Time
I’ve not tried using two colours before for audiovisual entrainment. Thought about it, read Dave’s notes on it, but hesitated. Chicken! Yes, I claim pock pock pock status. Until today. Did my usual SMR/Beta this morning, but instead of one colour, I used two: red and magenta. Because it’s been a hell of a week.…
Four Month Post-New Concussion Followup
Election 44 day, and it feels like a good time to write on concussion. Recovery at first stretched slow slow slow then in August snapped into sudden improvements. That’s brain injury recovery with treatment for you. Writing The blast injury ripped apart my ability to respond to writing reminders, remember to work on posts, and…
Six-Week Post-New Concussion Update
Brain injury is so strange to us because, despite our vast knowledge of the brain, we barely understand it. I can write small, sort/of-poetic observational tweets, or copy-and-paste a few sentences from one of my Psychology Today articles or brain injury pages into Hootsuite to post, but now six weeks after my new concussion, I…
Three-Week Concussion Treatment Update
The horror fest of concussion recovery, a job nobody wants, contains dramatic improvements. As I continue the treatment protocol I outlined in my last post, my reading is almost back to normal. I doubled my reading time on Sunday to 16 minutes without experiencing dizziness or nausea. Unfortunately, a concentration headache comes on with reading…
What To Do When Concussed Again?
Sound waves lift brain, carry it forward in its bath of fluid like it’s a wave itself. No pain. Eerie feeling. Concussed again. But nothing like the car crash, though I’ve been resisting that PTSD flashback for about a week since this out-of-the-blue incident. Guess I now know why I felt such a push to…
Meherwan Nowrojee Jeejeebhoy, 14 April 1942 to 10 May 2021
Uncle passed. That’s the Anglican way of putting it. Delicate, euphemistic. Although not delicate, Uncle had his mother’s social graces. Chain stoking SundowningWords on a wardThat nurses knowAnd lay people come to knowAs the world ticks onOutsideAnd insideIs hushedStoppedIs breathedOutTo theOther sideOnly our mind can seeJoiningThis sideWe rejoinThe world that ticks onSunrisingChain working.Saturday, 8 May…
The Brain and Heart Rate with Laser Therapy
Brain injury rose my heart rate to 130. My hypothalamus fix, brain biofeedback, particularly gamma brainwave training, began to drop it. It was a miracle when I first saw my heart rate drop into the double digits during a 3-minute gamma training screen. But it was low-intensity laser therapy (LILT) that dramatically improved my heart…
February Rest, March Restart
I’ve been steadily chipping away at the pages on my brain injury site. I wrote either drafts or final versions of most of them during Camp NaNoWriMo. But working on each page, refining, finding studies, creating images or downloading free stock images (that half the time my brain decides needs snazzing up, as if I…