Psychology - July 2007

I grew up on a farm next to a larger farm that belonged to my best friend Annie’s parents. We were two little girls whose families were too busy for us and our days were spent making dreams come true.

We found thrown out bikes in the neighbors trash and that neighbor helped us get them running, I painted mine fuchsia with sixties style daisies, Annie copied the fuchsia but put happy faces on hers. We found old wood in the barn to make a Barbie dream house like the one we saw on TV only it didn’t really look the same when we were finished. We decorated its interior with material our mom’s tossed out and made a few dresses by cutting holes for the head and arms and tying the waste with hay bail rope. They were the prettiest dresses I ever had because I made them and told stories about my great talents to people who liked listening to me.

We learned to swim in another neighbor’s pool. No one else on that secluded dead end road socialized with the two female teachers who bought a farm and appeared to be a couple. I am still friends with one of them, the other passed away a few years back. She brought culture into Annie’s and my life and encouraged us to behave like little ladies.

Each Halloween we spent days making our costumes and laughed for days after remembering compliments each neighbor made while eating candy bought special for us, because we were the only remaining young children on that road. Alone in the dark we walked through the woods, scared and clinging to each other, to the houses at the end of the road…

We accepted each others wonders about boys and sought answers that didn’t really pan out as truths. But most importantly, we healed each others childhood wounds.

I don’t wish to return to a time when I had limited control of my fate but I wish everyone else didn’t stop chasing dreams. So what if it doesn’t work, wouldn’t it be really cool if it did or better yet a different result is achieved that is bigger and better?

2007-07-22 02:33:42 · 3 answers · asked by Traveler 4

2007-07-22 02:26:20 · 6 answers · asked by shanekeavy 5

Many people have asked this over the centuries, but I wana know what you think the meaning of life is?

2007-07-22 02:18:59 · 10 answers · asked by zeltjie3 2

Hi Ive run through this pattern today. When youve run through the pattern a few times are the changes noticible and permanent? Will i "see" + "feel" changes and behave in a more effective manner as my second brighter picture depicted? Any advice/info/experiences would be greatly appreciated x

2007-07-22 01:12:41 · 3 answers · asked by RadicalReason 4

2007-07-22 00:40:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sometimes you can tell that someone is staring at you or if someone is coming into a room and you have your eyes closed.

What is it that makes us sense this.

2007-07-21 22:18:58 · 4 answers · asked by andy 198813 2

2007-07-21 22:16:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 21:47:15 · 6 answers · asked by Wednesday 2

I try to accept things as they are and make the most of a situation Yet I am rarely happy. I think sometimes this is because I recognise that the life is too short and that you have to do as much as you can in the time you have. When I think this way I get stressed about not doing what I want to do and I spend so much of my time planning and not doing. Any suggestions to get around this?

2007-07-21 21:18:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whenever I hear something horrible, I have the urge to laugh hysterically, and often do. But I feel dreaful while I am doing it. It is just so wrong to laugh- but why do I do that when I really feel like crying?

2007-07-21 20:20:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 20:18:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you know your own IQ...I'm not talking about emode.com but an actual statistically valid test administered by a psychologist...

What is your IQ AND can you
describe your general thought process ..
like egs ...even if they're random ..
when solving problems ..or just your
innermonologue ...what you think to yourself ...the vividness of your thoughts/memories. ..etc

Anything ...

2007-07-21 19:24:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a friend who has classic dyslexia -- reverses words while reading, sometimes while speaking (she'll sometimes say hoppergrass instead of grasshopper. But when it comes to 'reading' people's emotions she is amazing. She can pick up a person's personality or mood immediately. She can also figure out movies almost supernaturally. Ex. We were watching a John Grisham movie, and after 5 minutes, she whispered exactly who was going to be the good guy and who would be the bad guy--and she never saw or read it. I also read a book by a psychologist who claims his research shows similar findings. Have you had direct experience with this phenomenon--either because you have dyslexia or have a good friend with it?

2007-07-21 18:34:07 · 4 answers · asked by holacarinados 4

2007-07-21 16:52:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 16:43:14 · 22 answers · asked by The Answerer 2

why do skeptics take issue with people feeling good while solving a problem? guilt is a powerful motivator, why can't happiness be too? not every solution must be painful, and every little bit helps. so long as they work, why do people belittle 'feel-good' solutions?

2007-07-21 16:39:45 · 7 answers · asked by patzky99 6

What is the line between normal and abnormal fetish play?

2007-07-21 15:50:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

and their words are all jumbled and I can't put it together, I wonder what it means,w hat the misunderstanding

2007-07-21 15:34:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 14:30:03 · 10 answers · asked by doug g 7

2007-07-21 14:12:57 · 2 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

2007-07-21 14:11:22 · 4 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

Can you imagine a female president? Not only would the US be seen as pussycats on a worldly level, every other month constituents would have to be empathetic. Daddy always told me not to trust anything that bled for 2 weeks and didnt die. HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

2007-07-21 14:04:22 · 10 answers · asked by chaves_y_chaves 2

if you were found guilty of murder and your sentence was either life in prison without the possibility of parol, or death, which would your prefer to have and why?

2007-07-21 13:57:42 · 5 answers · asked by Jason A 1

2007-07-21 13:57:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 13:54:43 · 7 answers · asked by randomkid070 2

I know I have a photographic memory but I can't turn it on and off I can store pieces of stuff I want to in my brain I just have to think about storing it... I found this out in 7th grade because I could remember a day when I was 3 coming up the steps and seeing my mom in a bandanna cleaning (I think it was a bandanna). and then I could remember tons of other events in my life just by pictureing it in my mind I take a photo of it and store it in the back of my head for a long time I just want to be able to remember a lot more in that picture can anybody tell me a site were I can control it better?

2007-07-21 13:50:32 · 4 answers · asked by Jordan H 1

I'm so shy and I reject and ignore new people all the time because I think they'll hate me and "get too close" if you know what I mean...
I think I have problems... :|
How do I remedy it?

2007-07-21 13:38:33 · 5 answers · asked by C'est Comme Un Rêve 3

For you?

2007-07-21 13:23:06 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friends friend died, but I don't know what to say to my friend. What can I say nice thing? I haven't experienced others died really so I don't know. My friend is feeling really down. Please help.

2007-07-21 13:19:26 · 19 answers · asked by Chris 2

2007-07-21 13:14:20 · 5 answers · asked by Qwerty 2