Psychology, general, physical. --- .This section is about various physical factors that interact with psychology. Topics include: ( ) Energy. ( ) Food. ( ) Sleep. Dreams. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, general, physical. --- (1) Genetics, nature. Chemicals produced, effects of. (2) Developmental, environmental, nurture. Chemicals ingested, behaviors learned. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Biochemical link. Hormones. Testosterone and estrogen. Adrenaline and noradrenelin. Epinephrine and norepinephrine. Endorphins. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Biochemical predisposition for fear + poor memory = neurosis. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Body-mind link. Often people are both physically and mentally rigid, stiff or uptight which is unhealthy. Or loose and relaxed which is healthy. --- 1/31/2001
Psychology, general, physical. --- Brain biochemicals. What are them chemicals, list them. What are their various effects of presence or lack. What causes them to be produced? How can I produce or reduce them? What is the calm chemistry? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Brain biochemistry. Hormones: list, purpose, mechanism. Selfregualation: how to increase and decrease levels? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Don't blame learned problems on bio-chemicals. Don't blame bio-chemical problems on learned behavior. Some problems are combos of above. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Effect of body type on psychological development. (1) When you grow up thin or small or sickly there is a tendency to feel fragile, fearful, deferring, effervescent, evanescent, easily blown over, temporary, exposed. (2) When you grow up tall or fat or healthy there is a tendency to feel solid, permanent, secure, safe. --- 03/01/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Efficiency. Accomplishing using little energy. Working at low energy levels. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. (1) Causes: physical, psychological. (2) Effects: physical, psychological. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Boredom vs. interest (see attention). Excited vs. not excited (see emotion). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Factors: food/drink. Rest/sleep. Work/effort/exertion. Health: psychological and physical. Stamina, power. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Fatigue and energy types. (1) Psychological. Thought fatigue: burned out. Emotion fatigue: wrung out. (2) Physical. Aerobic fatigue. Anaerobic fatigue. Exhausted. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Fatigue decreases ability to think, fight, resist. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Fatigue due to no sleep, or no food. Overworked (physically and mentally). Affect it has on your mind and behavior: in general, in me. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Fatigue reduces thinking, feeling, creativity. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Fatigue. Effects of fatigue. (1) Lower productivity, more mistakes. (2) More susceptible to stress. (3) Increase in pathological psychology. (4) Less effective and efficient. (5) Less quality, less quantity. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. High and low energy. Objective and subjective. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. I fatigue quickly and easily. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Problems. Symptoms. Techniques to cure, prevent. Techniques to increase stamina, efficiency. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Recognize fatigue, avoid it. Avoid important decisions and actions under fatigue. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Related phenomena: tired, lazy, bored, depressed. Don't mistake one for other. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Two views of energy. (1) Energy is a physical thing, based on factors like sleep and food. (2) Energy is a psychological thing. Depression reduces energy. Lack of motivation reduces energy. --- 6/3/2004
Psychology, general, physical. --- Energy. Urgency creates adrenaline, which reduces fatigue. Get motivated. Get a sense of urgency of task and a sense of importance of task. --- 11/25/2001
Psychology, general, physical. --- Environment: promotes, stagnates, inhibits drive to do x. Psychological factors: genetic vs. learned. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. .See also: Health, food. See also: Arts, gastronomy. Food as nutrition (see health) vs. food as art (see gastronomy). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. (1) Food's relationship to physical body. (2) Food's relationship to psychology. Amounts, ingredients, effects. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. (1) Hunger. Pro: stay hungry, motivated, driven, clear, angry. Contra: no energy. (2) Full. Pro: can't think. Contra: energy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. (1) Psychological causes: stress cravings, psychological comfort. Physical causes. (2) Psychological effects. Physical effects. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. (1)(A) Too full can make you lazy, satisfies drives, clouds and dulls. (B) A little full gives you energy. (2)(A) Some hunger can clear, focus, drive the mind. (B) Too much hunger can sap energy, make you cranky and depressed, can't think well. (3) How to get the best and avoid the worst of both worlds? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. Altering internal environment, especially brain chemistry. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. Amount a person thinks about food, and cares about food. (1) The utilitarian shovels it in. (2) The Epicurean dwells on tastes and sights and smells and texture. (3) The cook gets a hand in it. (4) The food addict: overeaters, undereaters, junk food junkies. --- 01/01/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. Cravings, habits. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. Full stomach: unclear thoughts, undriven. Empty stomach: clear, driven. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. Prayer. May the booze not blind us. May the food not beleaguer us or lay us low. May the food not contain any substance that requires us to induce vomiting. No e.coli, no botulism. Neither rank nor fetid. May it not be infested with parasitic worms. No typhoid mary, no arsenic poisoner. Let us live to tell the tale. --- 01/08/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. What foods do what mentally to me? What diet makes me think most and best new thoughts and ideas? What diet keeps me in optimal mind state? How big a factor does good diet or poor diet play in my psychological life? At what point does it become a crucial factor? --- 01/20/1994
Psychology, general, physical. --- Food. What, how much, when. Time of day, intervals between meals. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Good diet, rest, high t, exercise. Less tired. Less depressed. Produce more quantity and quality. More mania. More noble. More optimistic. More horny. More integrated. Less = less of above. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Ideal. High protein diet. Many ideas, much work done, for many hours, with little sense of effort (seemingly effortlessly) or fatigue, with positive mind and mood (driven, calm, optimistic). --- 10/15/1993
Psychology, general, physical. --- It is all about energy. Energy for thought and action. How to increase energy? High testosterone. In love. Motivated by goals. Psyched up. Hopeful. Caffeine. Sleep. Food. --- 9/30/1998
Psychology, general, physical. --- List of chemicals: when produced, and effects of. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Physical body. (1) Genetics. (2) Physical development. Non-genetic. Illness and health. Biochemical: brain and body. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Physical causes and effects of thinking, emotion, motivation, and memory. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Physical factors in health and illness (physical and psychological). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Physiology: genetic vs. non-genetic. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Psychological effects of physical illness vs. psychological causes of physical ills. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Relationships of physical and psychology. Peak physical condition lets you perform in peak psychological, visa versa. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep deprivation can make you grouchy and depressed. --- 07/30/1993
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep is like a vacation from life. A reprieve. A short death. --- 12/29/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep time should not be wasted. One must use sleep to (1) Solve problems (theoretical and practical), and (2) Create ideas, and (3) Resolve unconscious psychological issues. --- 06/05/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep, dreams. (1) Part of the brain has to stay on at all times, or else the heart will stop beating and the lungs will stop breathing and the animal will die. And actually, when you think about it, a sleeping animal needs to be able to wake up at a moments notice to avoid predators. In fact, a sleeping animal should really have part of their brain sort of awake and listening for trouble. Therefore, even though the animal is asleep, the entire brain must be on and ready to react at a moments notice. So when we think about sleep, it helps to think of sleep more as "resting with eyes closed" rather than "dead as a door nail". (2) Is there any animal that does not ever sleep? Bacteria? (3) What is the most complex animal that requires the least sleep? Do more complex animals require more sleep? (4) Why do some people require little sleep? Why do other people require much sleep? (5) What happens when you get only a couple hours sleep for a few nights in a row? Many people turn to jello after a few nights of sleep deprivation. --- 3/10/2007
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep: not enough causes poor performance, too much is a waste of time. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. (1) Disorders or sleep. (A) Insomnia. Cannot get to sleep. Wake up too early. (B) Sleep too much. (2) Disorders of dreaming. (A) Cannot dream. (B) Dream too much. --- 5/30/2005
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Affects of lack of sleep on psychological and physical state. Stressed, moody, can't think, pathological psychological susceptibility, poor performance. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Disorders: insomnia, sleep walking, always tired, narcolepsy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Do all animals sleep? Do they sleep a regular number of hours each day (ex. 8 hours)? Do they sleep at a regular time of day (ex. at night)? --- 12/29/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dream analysis. Frequency, type, quality, quantity, after how much awake. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dream analysis. How did the dream make you feel? This is more important than trying to logically understand a set of images from your irrational unconscious. Example, this dream made me feel... scared, angry, hopeful, happy, etc. --- 02/15/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreamed I was a stranded polar explorer. --- 4/10/2006
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams are like movies, but they are free instead of costing $7.50. And they are more interesting, fantastic, and intense. --- 01/07/1994
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams can reflect both past memories and future desires and fears. Dreams can center on emotion or thought. --- 5/15/1998
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams in animals and proto-humans. (1) Dreams and animals. Do animals dream? How do animals tell the difference between dreams and reality? Do they say to themselves, "It was only a dream."? (2) Dreams and proto-humans. Did proto-humans dream? How did proto-humans tell the difference between dreams and reality? Did they say to themselves, "It was only a dream."? --- 12/2/2003
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. (1) Dreams: the cheapest form of entertainment. (2) Dreams: to figure out problems and goals. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. (1) Types. Night dreams. Day dreams. Dozing and nap dreams. (2) Why dreams? (A) For psychological health. To work out psychological problems and issues. (B) For creativity. To figure stuff out. Artistic creativity. Solving intellectual problems (ex. Kekule). (3) Techniques. Book of dreams. Dream book. --- 5/20/1998
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. I don't remember my dreams because I am repressing my dreams. I am repressing my dreams because I fear what I will see in them. --- 10/10/1997
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. Lucid dreaming: how to. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. Remembering them, writing down your dreams. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. Three women. Young, beautiful strangers. When we dream of people and places we have never seen before, in detail, it is an extraordinary act of mental creativity. I can't even be that creative when I am awake. Our minds are powerful and untapped. How do we do this? --- 11/30/1996
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Dreams. Your average dream is a nonsensical collage of images. And we consider such dreams to be strange because they are unlike real life. Yet these are the dreams that we have 99% of the time. However, occasionally you have a dream that is unusual in that it is just like real life. A dream that has startling clarity and cohesion. Like the dream I had where I was reading a newspaper article word for word. A dream that is just like real life is truly a strange dream. --- 5/2/2002
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. How much sleep do I like? How much do I need, what do I perform best with? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. If you work 9 to 5, and go to sleep right after work, you can sleep from 6 pm to 2am, get up and work from 2am to 8am. Thus getting a lot of work done while still morning fresh. --- 07/30/1993
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. More than three nights with less than three hours sleep can drive a person off kilter. Depression and anxiety can result. --- 6/14/2004
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Most important things to remember about sleep. (1) Not enough sleep makes you grouchy, hate job and life, unfriendly to people, unmindful of procedures on job (fu*kup), no new ideas, depression, konk out after noon, have to drink coffee or cola to keep going. (2) Enough sleep makes you happy, energetic, new ideas, love job and life, friendly to people, accurate on procedures, etc. --- 04/04/1994
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Purpose of sleep: repair and reenergize mind and body. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Too much: waste of time. Too little: sub-optimal performance. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Sleep. Why do we sleep? Why do we sleep 8 hours a day? Why do we sleep at night? Why do we dream? --- 10/30/1994
Psychology, general, physical. --- Testosterone, diet, exercise, and sleep, in order to get together head and behavior, in order to get together work and school. --- 12/30/1995
Psychology, general, physical. --- Testosterone. (1) High t. Clearer, creative. Problem seer and solver. Optimistic, directed, motivated, calm, focused. (2) Low t. Opposite of above. Confused, depression, anxiety, no energy, no drive. Can't think well or long, can't work well or long. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, general, physical. --- Testosterone. Feeling great = feeling horny = high t and in shape. --- 02/01/1994
Psychology, general, physical. --- You: mind, body, actions. Your life: environment, experience. --- 12/30/1992