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no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it’s been twelve years since it happened

it’s such an unreal experience

like

you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face

and

you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is

it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it’s there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing

But You Are Not Seeing Anything

Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no light to put an image on your retina.

But your brain just Fucking Assumes that because it knows where your hand is and what it is doing, clearly it can see it.

So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing.

Brain is like “there’s a hand there”

Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it”

Brain is like “nice”

but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best

Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Orlok: YOU WILL HAVE THREE NIGHTS

Orlok, immediately getting impatient and walking it back: AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM

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jane remover battling with herself for what my favorite single released last year was

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Rewatching the bear s1 & I'm obsessed with Carmy TheBear having his male protagonist in the bathroom mirror moment & the pills he was taking were antacids. He's taking like tums chewables. Our acid reflux babygirl

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annoying as fuck

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it snowed where i live today and i gotta hold my baggy jeans up like a princess when i’m outside to avoid the dreaded wet pants hems

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december 2024

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Um, waiter? I’m bisexual today. Get me something bisexuals would eat.

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I straight up do not trust you if you did not enjoy a single book you had to read for English class. I know they assigned some real stuffy stinkers and the curriculum varies across districts but not one? Not The Outsiders? Not The Picture of Dorian Gray? Not Fahrenheit 451? Not even Frankenstein? Damn. That’s crazy.

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everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

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bro thay put transgender in me

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It's actually funny how humans decided "fuck living in caves with all these creepy crawlies", got out of caves, built houses that have all the nice parts of a cave without any of the yucky parts, and then all the little bugs and spiders and other creepy crawly creatures that used to also live in caves thought "sweet, new and improved caves" and moved right back in with us.

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