Mischief Managed


One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

Brain Drain

I am participating in this Psychology research about memory and imagination. Admittedly, I only signed up to do it because you get an MRI scan of your brain! Wicked cool. I went to the first session the other day and I had to list 100 events from the past ten years of my life. That sounds kind of easy, except each event had to include a different person, location and object. For example, I could only have one memory of my Mom. My first thought was, “… I don’t know 100 different people!” After four hours I did manage to siphon out 100 memories. I felt quite strange after, perhaps borderline delusional. I was getting confused between what actually happened and what I wanted to have happened. I just wanted to finish the task, but I thought I should try really hard to make these real, vivid memories because I assume I will be tested on it in the next session. The events started out quite significant - a birthday or something. Then towards the end they get so pointless. “That time I ate chips on the grass with my friend.” Oh well. Maybe the past ten years haven’t been that interesting. I look forward to the next session on Wednesday. BRAIN SCAN!