#amygala

[agladigiicinmutluolankiz]

#agustd #minyoongi #bts #kpop #amygala https://www.instagram.com/p/CrqgtbgIZeL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[milkyberryjsk]

i graduated ^__^

[spyroz]

ill never forgive that stupid ass ‘make an oc playlist without using these Cringe Bands’ post for putting LINKIN PARK on the list next to fucking taylor swift and harry styles. you disrespect linkin park? you would disrespect chester bennington? he sang for one of the most iconic bands of all time and was incredibly talented and he died very tragically and you are putting him on a list next to taylor swift and harry styles? explode. blow up, even!

[pumpkinpuppeteer]

some more edits i made !! the amygalas ragdoll one was the first one of these silly guys i made , even before c e n t i p e d e !! feel free to use them with credit , or at least reblog this if you do !!

art by ghost ofc :)

[lucysweatslove]

Should I:

A) go to the gym and maybe have an anxiety attack while there because people but then get to do workouts I love the most including strength training MAYBE if it’s not too busy

B) Ride my little folding spinning bike and not have an anxiety attack but get to do a workout I generally enjoy but then also have my butt hurt from it, and then maybe try to dig out my dumbbells to do something but probably not bc they’re buried in my closet.

C) snuggle with Oreo and take a nap and maaaaaybe wake up in time to do some gentle yoga, which I also enjoy but lately have not been enjoying because my back won’t let me do my favorite poses.

[a-bee-wizard]

i would describe myself as a below average dark souls player, but i am apparently a GOD at bloodborne

[transgenderer]

making a grand journey across mountain and sea to consult the wisest WASP elders and learning the final art of Bottling It Up. i hear autopsies find a small black crystal nestled where their amygala used to be

[weirdmageddon]

five years too late let’s analyze this. the commentary has gotten me back into gravity falls reigniting thoughts and insights i came to years ago

i love everything about this commentary in general it hits the points of humor, genuine analysis of the characters, but most of all im so glad hirsch addressed that the droid not detecting any fear from dipper here doesnt make any scientific sense because that was a massive CinemaSins moment for me

IDK the fact that dipper can fucking stand after an airship crash because theres a bigger threat at hand is literally one of the defining capabilities owed to adrenaline lol...... IM SORRY im a biopsychology student if i dont point that out iwill seethe and die because that was just . its a grudge ive held for a long time about this episode but didnt rant about because it was something so minor and i’m sure nobody would care.

i was 13 when this episode came out and i’m almost 19 now, i had a special interest in biology and i still do but now i’m actually having college classes in biopsychology so i can give my arguments more oomph now. and i have to say, now that i know more about the brain and autonomic nervous system the more this scene bugs me, if that was even possible. and it says a lot of dipper and ford’s relationship.

if dipper clearly wasnt calm before, why would he be now just because he’s put up an outwardly confident facade? before he was in the flight but now hes in the fight. my boy just rode on top of a spaceship by nothing but a magnet gun that could detach at any time if it failed and then the ship crashed, he sustained injuries, is in emotional turmoil because he thinks his uncle is Fucking Dead and the threat of a security droid that detects adrenaline is on his tail and produces a Big Fucking Gun in response to dipper saying “i hAvE a MaGNeT gUn” and hes screaming and has his teeth clenched but sure there’s no adrenaline coursing through his body in that moment i can totally believe that

when dipper asks what happened, ford says “the orb didn’t detect any chemical signs of fear, it assumed the threat was neutralized and self-disassembled” but i don’t think measuring someone’s heartbeat alone is particularly relevant in detecting ... chemical signs of fear?? they dont really tell you this shit but noradrenaline (and maybe adrenaline too if the acetylcholine from sympathetic outflow always activates the adrenal medulla??, theres two pathways) is always active in small quantities to make sure your parasympathetic nervous system doesnt slow your heart to dangerous levels on its own, regardless of your emotions. it’s just a homeostatic mechanism. your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are CONSTANTLY modulating control of your organs on a see-saw, literally with every breath you take. simply standing upright causes specialized mechanoreceptor neurons in blood vessels to signal your brain to project signals to release catecholamines via the sympathetic nervous system to constrict your blood vessels so that blood is able to reach your brain and not pool in your legs. i have a deficiency in my body’s ability to adapt to this which is why i know so much about it. if i stand up my heart races to compensate. i’m not feeling fear, my body is just adjusting—albeit grossly and incompetently lol.

but what im saying here is that the security system is flawed. it’s a cool idea to have security droids detect fear, but in practice by detecting adrenaline, and not even directly by detecting the molecule itself—it’s done in a roundabout way by reading the heartbeat, could be a recipe for false alarms. like what if someone’s on beta-blockers. that’s not really an adequate way to measure “fear”; there’s so many variables that could interfere with the measurement the farther you abstract from what you’re really trying to detect. and besides, adrenaline is NOT just a sign of fear, it’s just for preparing the body for action. i know the sympathetic nervous system and adrenaline is constantly linked with the “fight-or-flight” reaponse to a stressor, but 99.9% of the time the sympathetic nervous system is used in your life is to balance out your parasympathetic nervous system to maintain homeostatic equilibrium for mundane things.

i think detecting amygdalar activation would be more efficient in detecting fear. the amygdala sends projections to the hypothalamus which then in turn modulates the autonomic nervous systems. but the amygdala is intensely activated specifically in response to a fear-inducing stimulus (it does activate in response to other emotions but they’re mostly negative and is most activated by startle and fear), and wouldnt be highly activated by many other confounding variables like measurement of the heartbeat could be. the amygala is one of the first stops directly from external stimuli.

to show you how integrated the amygdala is as the first step in registering fear after receiving input from sensory stimuli let’s look at the auditory-amygdala connection for example

see how the auditory thalamus projects to the primary auditory cortex and auditory association cortex? the cortex is where conscious awareness of what the stimuli is comes from. this is the “high road”. it goes sensing -> perception -> emotional response. but sometimes you can be startled without even processing what it is you’re sensing, like the startle response of an alarm or a phone ringing in a quiet house before you even register what it is. this goes sensing -> emotional response, without perception happening until after you’ve already felt the startle. that’s when it takes the “low road”. here’s a simplified version:

even if that were the case with these droids though it’s obvious dipper is still fearful on some level here. his body language, voice, expressions all give it away. for the amygdala, aggression isnt too off from fear so it would be detected equally.

the reason this is so important is because ford uses this as evidence for why dipper is special, “i did it?” “you did it. this is what i was talking about, how many 12 year olds do you think are capable of doing what you’ve just done?”

but like....did he really? i’m not saying this to shoot dipper down or make him out to be more of a wuss, he was incredibly strong-willed here and i dont want to take that away from him because it WAS growth on his part. but the underlying psychophysiological reactions of aggression and fear shouldn’t be that different and this was a total asspull. maybe the droid was so old that it fucked up. maybe dipper being covered in grime and dirt made it harder for the droid to measure the correct heart rate through photoplethysmography (im assuming since they use a camera and are non-contact).

and in all honesty everything i just said brings into question the interpersonal healthiness of ford’s judgements, what he thinks, his expectations, and how he communicates that. in this video alex already talks about how ford is projecting onto dipper. and i think ford may be projecting his expectations for himself onto people who are not him, and the fact that it’s on dipper here makes it far more unfortunate. you realize how much this boy idolizes ford, right? how much impressions matter? dipper even tells himself before he leaves in this same episode, “all right dipper, this is your first big mission with great uncle ford. don’t mess this up.”

even though it’s unstated, the implicit message dipper is perceiving from ford based on their dynamic is: “do you have what it takes for me to be proud of you?” and to accomplish this he must be like ford, even though he’s clearly not and he knows this. he says “i don’t think have what it takes. i was tricked by bill, i was wrong about stan’s portal, heck, i can’t even operate this magnet gun right.” then, by simple chance without even knowing what he did, he activates the magnet gun and pulls out the adhesive, which immediately takes the focus away from what dipper was telling ford about his feelings of inadequacy to ford saying, “yes! dipper, you found the adhesive!”

these thoughts of dipper’s hang in the air without resolve or comment from ford. we don’t know what ford would have said. but it then becomes painfully self-evident in the scene immediately after when the droids emerge and ford tells dipper, “they’re security droids and they detect adrenaline. you simply have to not feel any fear and they won’t see you”, to which dipper replies with an exasperated (and rightful) “WHAT?”

dipper goes in a panic trying to indirectly tell his uncle that this isn’t something he can do. and he is completely right and valid to be freaked out by that full stop. that IS crazy. you can’t control your fear. you can control how you interpret that fear in your higher brain regions but the physiological changes will stick around for longer than it takes to cognitively calm down. it’s easy for me to detach from my emotions to analyze them, but being able to do this does not come naturally for everyone. even i have an irrational fear of wasps and i can’t control it by detaching myself, my body is just automatically primed to get the fuck out of there. i know it’s stupid and i know it’s irrational and isn’t helpful to get myself worked up but i literally can’t stop how my body reacts no matter how i cognitively think about it. expecting composure from dipper in a situation like this when he’s being made to consciously be aware of his anxiety is absolutely fucking insane. look what you did, placing these cruel expectations on him, now he’s afraid of being afraid! this isn’t a case where two wrongs cancel out, they just stack on top of each other.

there’s a good reason these scenes were put side by side but it seems up until now it had remained unanalyzed.

what dipper fears from ford is disappointment. not living up to his uncle’s (quite frankly badly placed) expectations for a twelve year old with anxiety. not once did ford say or subliminally communicate “i don’t expect you to be able to do what i can since you are not as experienced as i am and that’s perfectly okay, no judgements”. you don’t put a child on bike before training wheels. you don’t throw a kid into a swimming pool without giving them swimming lessons. the way ford is doing it, there’s no room for trial and error or mistakes that are an opportunity to grow and learn; instead, it’s life or death. he only seems to pride dipper on what he can do while ignoring the underlying struggles that plague him and never making it known it’s okay for dipper to fail in front of his hero and that he won’t think anything less of him for it.

and that’s why i found the ending scene for dipper and ford’s adventure in this episode to feel so.. wrong. on a scientific and social level. because by the sound of it ford focused more on what dipper had done to dismantle the droid (the droid not detecting any fear) instead of how dipper displayed love and protection for him even if he was truly afraid. what if the science was accurate and the droid detected adrenaline while dipper was confidently standing up for his uncle. would ford still be proud of him regardless?

[jokesonyouihatemyselfdotcom]

songs/bands i think need more recognition (as a maladaptive  day-dreamer and a synesthete)

Pretty much every song from Set It Off

green day

run boy run- wood kid

another way out- Hollywood Undead 

Old scars / future hearts -All time Low 

Glitter and Gold- Barns Courtney 

imagine dragons

fall out boy

the boy prince- winterbourne

creature- half alive

King Of The World- young Rising Sons

twenty one pilots 

american authors

SAD (Clap Your Hands)- Young Rising sons

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- Daft punk

the moss- Cosmo Sheldrake

tongue tied- grouplove

Avicii

passenger

Fairytale- Alexander Rybak

Bastille

the score

Parents- YUNGBLUD

AJR

No Resolve

Ship in a bottle- Fin

Epoch- Savlonic 

COLDPLAY

Stockholm Lights- Diviners

Crash- Neovaii

MCR

Evelyn Evelyn- Evelyn Evelyn

no friends- Cadmium

Amygala’s ragdoll- Ghost and pals

dodie

girl in red (recommended for wlw) 

sweater weather- the neighborhood

(im looking through my playlist i made with my friends and its just all girl in red)

Help! Oh Well...- SomeThingElseyt

Home- cavetown. 

all of cavetown

the entire heathers musical

mother mother

weathers

all real - DoctorSiren

HONORABLE MENTIONS

patd w/o brendon eiry (however you spell his name)

tryhardninja

any fnaf song 

hero’s tonight- janji

cg5 

neon trees 

jay breeze 

the fat rat 

and DAgames

[hithernthither]

@of-forossa​

"Imagine thinking that a giant flea with several eye conditions is worthy of reverence."

“Imagine worshipping a bloated corpse. Are you a necrophiliac by any chance? Oh dear, Lord Amygala save you.”

[pinocolosimo]

NON SIAMO COME ERAVAMO PRIMA

NON SIAMO COME ERAVAMO PRIMA Poesia di Pino Colosimo Lettura di Mirko Soldano

Immagini di Amygala Musica di Max Richter - Elena & Lila

Non siamo come eravamo prima.

Il cuore risorge dai pensieri, ora, che stiamo dietro i vetri delle nostre finestre, e ascoltiamo i passi dei giorni che scorrono e sembrano perdersi nell’indifferenza della vita. La sera arriva, getta le sue ombre pesanti, nel vuoto della stanza, non ci resta che il cigolio del silenzio per dare un senso ad una porta chiusa. Abbiamo l’impressione di non vedere oltre una nuvola, la passione della vita ci sconvolge, pensiamo di non saper più sognare ora, che tutto tace, ora, che tutto ci sembra così assurdo, e … ci sentiamo divorati, fino ad impazzire. Seduti dietro la porta, ascoltiamo il mondo, immaginiamo quello che non vediamo, vorremmo forse dimenticare la vita di ieri, l’ultimo esilio dei nostri pensieri.

Con la testa tra le mani, ascoltiamo il sibilare di un mare lontano, evochiamo il profumo di una canzone d’amore, resistiamo al desiderio di farci domande di decifrare i segreti dell’enigma, come travolti da un’illecita passione; vogliamo ritornare fuori. Scorgiamo il sorriso della luna, una stella tremare; volgiamo lo sguardo su ciò che è stato devastato, ucciso per sopravvivere nel nostro triste angolo d’oro.

Ora, che i nostri giardini sono deserti, i nostri cortili sono deserti, i nostri spazi sono deserti, nessun recinto potrà fermarci.

Il nostro cielo è una primavera, il profumo sono le nubi che s’innalzano dopo un sonno profondo.

Non siamo come eravamo prima.

[spyroz]

i could write a 10 page essay on why bloodborne is such an effective horror game because of the combination of the difficulty and slowly increasing fear (i still think there should be an easy mode tho, this game should be accessible to everyone)

like. bloodborne IMMEDIATELY introduces you to werewolves, orcs, and a massive cleric beast. so you’re like, oh! by “beast” they meant wolf-like and orc-like beasts! and this belief is unchallenged in old yharnam and the cathedral ward, though the enemies get a bit more exaggerated, you’re still fighting the same guys

then you get to the fucking. forest. and the SNAKE GUY shows up and its really the first time youre like WHA THT EFUCK

[ataraxiamfrp]

September Update

It looks like the tides are turning in Epoche, but let’s take a step back from that for a moment and talk about what’s new in Ataraxia this month! 

New mod!!

After a very difficult selection process (seriously, we got some REALLY good applications, and it took a lot of discussion between the mods to come to a consensus), please give a warm welcome to our newest admin mod (drumroll please…)

Shae, stepping into the role of Mod Pavane! 

We’re happy to have Shae on board, and look forward to what they have in store. And of course, we would like to thank everyone who applied. It was a tough choice, especially with so many people near and dear to our hearts applying. 

Monthly Lore Reveals!

The lore compendium we’ve been working on has been a more monumental task than we initially anticipated, so you’ll have to wait a little bit longer on that.

But through this process, we’ve learned just how much lore we have behind the scenes that we haven’t gotten a chance to share with you! Obviously we aren’t going to be spilling story secrets, but our beloved setting mod, Mod Grave, will be writing monthly lore reveals to share with you all so you get to know a little more about the history, culture, and world of Epoche!

This month’s lore document features the Hierarchy and History of Epoche’s Military, and can be viewed here!

NSFW OOC 2 

Those of you who have been here for a while might remember the NSFW OOC 2 channel that was locked down to encourage people to chat together in other channels. Well, we talked about it a bit, and we’ve decided Ataraxia has grown a lot and there really isn’t a reason for it to stay locked down. So it’s being reopened! Yay! Go forth and have fun (or cursed) conversations with your fellow groupmates.

Job Channel Survey

Following a suggestion from a member, the mods have been looking into how to potentially implement “job-specific” in character channels into the server for interactions relating to jobs within the city. Have a chat with a barista over some amygala! Discuss your measurements and vision with the seamstress you’re commissioning for a gown! Help someone find the perfect flower to convey their feelings to that special someone!

We’ve come up with a few options, but we want to know what you all, the members, believe would work best. You can fill out the survey here, and we’ll keep track of the responses and (hopefully) bring something back to you all with the next update!

That’s all…. For now at least. Keep looking up…

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[mrslittletall]

So, the Amygala just chilling on the enctrance to Yahar’gul... she has been there before I could see her, cause I once went to this place and got snatched by an unseen force. And it happened on other places too. I kinda want to check if there have been Amy’s there too.  Well, I got told that the hunter would have been able to see her before Rom got beaten when they would have managed to gain 40 insight. This makes me think... Is it like... the hunter actually has seen that thing but it was like “Nope, not real, this thing doesn’t exist, I can’t grasp its existence, so it isn’t visible for me?”

[amandineia]

Amygalas

Amygalas se lasse de ses strass.

Elle passe près de cette casse.

Puis elle s’en débarrasse près d’une marée basse.

Le superficiel devient alors une crasse efficace,

Un palace de société de masse.

Amandine Poret

[iamakdx]

Hola! Akdx is here! In this modern times everyone finds Happiness and love from others, And In This way People Forget That love who giving a god that is pure love So Today's topic is spiritual and self loveing How Can Make Relationship With God ? So Kick-off learning below readers;

"We all have God in us, it's too late to recognize it" Everyone must have heard this statement, but how many people believe it to be true. This is a question. In this modern era, every person has become modern, but it is not his fault if he does not move with other people, he will be left behind. So the question then how to bring a relationship with God.

In today's time, the first method is to chant (mantra), it will sound a bit strange, but it is very simple. When you speak the mantra, you establish a contact between you and God. This contact, not listening, is a relationship that draws you closer to God.

Whatever your faith is on God, only their mantra

Chant Shabar Mantra is a little easier to prove than Bija Mantra.

The second method is yoga, which we also call meditation. Meditation reduces the amygdala. Amygala is a part of our brain that has negative thoughts. When you do yoga, a positive energy arises around us, which reduces the distance between us and God. Do meditation in a quiet environment. Because you are in yoga posture in meditation, try a God who is above you. Know myself who i am And how to add love and faith to that God. Believe, meditation will give you answer from your all inner Feelings.

The third and slightly more difficult method is workship, difficult because in today's run-of-the-mill life, people have a shortage of time. That is why no one is able to sit down and ship the work. In the work ship, we worship God and wish to be with him throughout our lives. And connect with them. Work on the God of your faith, regularly or according to your time.

Remember that the relationship should be with the person or with God, just keep yourself in the realm of truth. Keep true.

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