So. I did not dream the whole thing.

[capri0mni]

Sometimes, in the morning, as I'm drifting awake, I turn on the radio to listen to NPR and get another voice or two inside my head. Sometimes, that helps me wake up completely. Sometimes, that helps me drift back into dreams.

Yesterday morning, I felt pretty certain that I'd heard a piece on doodling, and how your teachers were wrong: it's notdistracting, but helps you focus.

But then, as I was going to bed, last night, I began to wonder if I'd actually heard the report, or only dreamt I was listening to the radio. I was leaning toward the latter, since: a) I hadn't set my radio alarm until 10:30 (a good hour and a half after such a report would've been over), b) I had absolutely no memory of turning on the radio before the alarm went off, and c) the "report" had "accompanying video" to illustrate its points. But if it were a dream, it would certainly have gone into the record books as one of my most vivid and detailed, ever.

Then, as I was having my coffee, today, I remembered that NPR.org has a search function, where you can pull up recent reports that you've heard, so I thought I'd try it, even though I was more than half certain the search would come up empty.

But:

Bored? Try Doodling to Keep the Brain on Task

There! Enjoy!

Comments

[leenah.livejournal.com]

the link doesn't work - if you take out the last " it works.

i'm a known doodler. i've started saving them 'cause i like them.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. It's fixed (instead of taking out the last ", I went back and inserted the one at the beginning that I skipped).

I also find that doodling helped me during long lectures at school because I'd link the pictures to the content -- doodling stick-figure people to represent "population," for example. So more portions of my brain were engaged in the process.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

if we were studying german history (in history class, so the language of class is english) i would start translating bits into german (i ended up minoring in german). i ended up with a huge number of idiosyncratic shortcuts, like z. means between. i couldn't loan my notes w/o a translation key.

i have plans for my current doodles. not talking about what they are until i actually get some of them DONE. incentive to get the work completed.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I studied Latin, in high school. Some words in Latin (i.e. "in") are exactly the same as English, so if I wasn't careful, a sentence that started out in one languague would end up in another...

And hee! Hooray for grand plans!

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

I've known that for years re: doodling. And I've gotten all 21st century about it now. When I want to stay focused in a meeting, I now play Bejeweled 2 on my phone. Gives my hands something to do while I listen to boring meetingness.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Oooh...

And it has the advantage of not leaving any paper trails behind.

(though it also leaves historians bereft of material when writing your biography, 100 years from now... Hey! it could happen!)