{"id":654,"date":"2010-07-27T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-07-27T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:40:50","slug":"imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Imagination!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some good exercise for your imagination.  You can&#8217;t do it now, sitting in front of your computer or whatever.  You&#8217;ll have to wait until night and you&#8217;ve been in bed for at least 10 minutes, trying to get to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>If your bed is next to a wall, this works better if you are facing the wall, your back to the rest of the room.<\/p>\n<p>It is also best to keep your bedroom door unlocked, maybe even your house door (without setting the alarm, of course).<\/p>\n<p>This also works better if you have a fan going, or the air conditioning, anything that creates some white noise in the background.  With a good imagination, you&#8217;ll be able to hear things in the white noise.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now, as your lying there, eyes closed, all relaxed in the complete darkness, imagine someone slowly opening your bedroom door.  You don&#8217;t know who this person is, but he or she is very <em>very<\/em> dangerous.  And the person is here to kill you, to murder you in your sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Lie very still as the person slowly approaches.  In the white noise, you can hear the person&#8217;s footsteps very faintly, you can even hear the person&#8217;s slow nervous breathing.  Closer and closer the person comes.<\/p>\n<p>The person is right next to your bed.  The person begins hovering over you, perhaps to make sure you&#8217;re really asleep.  The person is about to murder you.  You can almost feel the person&#8217;s warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; quickly sit up and scream &#8220;NOOOOO!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And murderer will vanish in thin air!  Or so we hope.<\/p>\n<p>If not, I hold no responsibility for your untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun using your imagination!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some good exercise for your imagination. You can&#8217;t do it now, sitting in front of your computer or whatever. You&#8217;ll have to wait until night and you&#8217;ve been in bed for at least 10 minutes, trying to get to sleep. If your bed is next to a wall, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}