Damn! I actually understood that.

When in off state and moving forward, does someone in your path 10'away cause you to freeze. if you dont do you feel continuing forward would cause a collision because, strangely enough, they wouldn't have time to get out of the way. In my mind i could break out at any moment so I best not risk the collision. Then abut 2 mins later and a polite (this is my version)"please stand aside I then continue

LOL, Rick. I understood it too...Does that mean we have altered the learning curve? not util we have figured out how to achieve the proper imbalance. It is so precisely measured. The delicately sensitive systems of the human body amaze me, especially when I take into account how much abuse that same human body can endure after things have gone awry. How fiercely doth our human frame object to the intrusion, and how visciously it attacks the intruder, amassing veritable armies of specialized soldiers which proceed to seek, tag, attack and destroy the alien interloper. Aren't we splendidly made?

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Exactly, Bob. They will just stand there not knowing what to do if we don't give instruction. Baffled beyond belief, Bob's baby blues blink before Bob bellows, "Back, Bill. Bob's blowin' by."

michael b.

i am more than a little impressed by your site. elegant piece of work.

what a piece of work is man.... http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/an...erlife_hi.html

imagine how smart smart we'ld all be if they had shorts like that for us in high school biology! that was the best movie since "the incredible journey".

That was an excellent movie, Rick. I feel smarter just from having play on my computer. If I hadn't spent so much time on my little rinky dink site, I would be tempted to delete it. Thanks for sharing that.

michael b.

Bob, when someone crosses my path, I stop suddenly and it takes a moment to get going again. I think the intruder breaks my rhythm, such as it is.

Rick, I tried an experiment: walking with eyes closed, but doing my side to side thinking in my brain, i.e. as if I were moving side to side instead of straight ahead. And yup, I could walk.

I don't know why the side to side thing works for me. I think the loop controlling movement walking foward is defective.

But the one controlling side to side is not. Just like the loop for walking up stairs is intact. So, I access that side to side loop by thinking about it, and I can move foward with ease.

I'm not consciously thinking about moving foward, but that idea of moving foward may be automatic; it's the loop for the actual gait that is impaired, so I compensate for that by thinking side to side.

I wish others would try it and let me know if it works. When I get off the train, I always have trouble moving, but it gets much easier when I start to think 'side to side'. It's a nutty idea, but it works for me.

Please, try it and see if it works for you!

Michael, I'll explore your site soon!

Rick, I believe you have vertigo. When you can't walk and look around at the same time without your losing your balance that is called "paroxistic lateral vertigo", or so my neuro told me. There's not much you can do about it, just avoid walking along bumpy country lanes at dusk , bad lighting conditions make it worse.

Rick

I pasted this out of an article on the front page of The Daily Telegraph newspaper (this is a broad sheet not a tabloid) in the UK today. I am sure you probably know it anyway.

Someone listening to songs or tunes they enjoy experiences a release of dopamine, the hormone linked to reward and happiness. This association has led Prof Levitin, who worked with Stevie Wonder and the Grateful Dead, to claim to have discovered the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" centre of the brain after collating research to be published this year.

The link to the full article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../nmusic118.xml

If nothing else it's an entertaining read.

Chris