{"id":3406,"date":"2009-03-16T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:55:47","slug":"those-odd-little-thoughts-that-go-floating-through-your-head-whilst-sitting-alone-in-complete-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3406","title":{"rendered":"Those Odd Little Thoughts That Go Floating Through Your Head, Whilst Sitting Alone In Complete Darkness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Geek Alert&#8230;]<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m working with my hands, and trying to completely focus my mind on what my fingers are doing, I&#8217;ll close my eyes, so as to tune out the visual, in favor of the tactile. This is something I&#8217;ve done ever since I was a kid working on a new model car or a slot car or a Heathkit assembly.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a reflex, something akin I think to how I sometimes stare off into nowhere when I&#8217;m concentrating on something someone is saying to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in the darkroom trying to load some film into the tank.&nbsp; I had a roll of sprocket damaged film I was trying to get onto a developing reel and because it was damaged it was fighting me.&nbsp; I kept trying to wind it, and felt it kinking and knew that it had jumped the track, rewound and started over.&nbsp; It was getting frustrating.&nbsp; I realized in the middle of all this that I&#8217;m closing my eyes to concentrate on the feel of the film going into the reel.&nbsp; Yet I was doing this in complete darkness anyway.&nbsp; There couldn&#8217;t have been anything more superfluous just then, then closing my eyes.&nbsp; Yet I kept on doing it.&nbsp; Even when I realized I was doing it, and thought to stop myself.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t concentrate on not closing my eyes, and getting the film wound correctly at the same time.&nbsp; So I stopped fighting my eyelids and focused my attention on getting the film wound.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a habit I got into.&nbsp; It&#8217;s some sort of brain reflex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Geek Alert&#8230;] When I&#8217;m working with my hands, and trying to completely focus my mind on what my fingers are doing, I&#8217;ll close my eyes, so as to tune out the visual, in favor of the tactile. This is something I&#8217;ve done ever since I was a kid working on a new model car or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}