June 26th #LoveWins

How many of you have been seeing this?

Why is the White House a rainbow? Well here's what happened. On June 26th, the Supreme Court gave marriage equality rights to the LGBT(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) population because they realized it was one of the basic rights of the Constitution. June 26th has become now a monumental day. It's the success story of decades of work, of people fighting for their rights. Obama might be ending his presidential term next year, but he will always be remembered for this.

Check out his speech on the ruling:

I'm not naive enough to believe that this will be the end of all the hatred against LGBT people. As a country who rules to grant equal liberties, the people who do oppose this ruling can't be forced to change their mind. Some people might never agree and treat LGBT humans as equals. This could stem from their own personal beliefs like religion. The job of this ruling wasn't to change everybody's mind, but it was to give these people who have fought so diligently, for so long just to be considered equal in the eyes of the law. I hope people realize that by opening your mind to new possibilities doesn't necessarily mean abandoning your beliefs or your God. One does not have to cancel the other. The world we live in today has made change essential. In the end, human beings have their own minds and it's up to them whether they buy a ticket or not. 

Dream On

It's funny it took me this long to get to this topic. Dreams. A couple days ago, I watched the movie Inception. Fantastic film. Christopher Nolan, thank you. Just thank you. You're amazing. The movie incorporated things so natural to us, you didn't even think about it. One such thing was the "kick" or the feeling of falling that helps you wake up. In the movie, *spoiler alert* if you get killed in a dream (i.e. shot through the head), then you wake up. I don't know about you, but for me, personally, it's not just when I am dead in a dream that I wake up. I usually wake up right as it hits the climax. Just as the action starts picking up and becoming terrifyingly real. My eyes shoot open, I grasp my pillows to make sure I'm on the bed and not the floor. I try to recall what happened last that made me wake up, but it comes to me in fragments like a book with words blurred by the rain. Now I can't stop asking myself, why do we forget?  Yet, somehow dreams remain one of the most intimate creations of the human mind. So with any question, I asked Google.

Scientific American says," Due to a lack of a hormone-norepinephrine- which helps enhance memory in humans in the cerebral cortex, a brain region that plays a key role in memory, thought, language and consciousness." But that is not a just enough explanation, so they go on to say that humans forget their dreams because it is in the "less consciously directed thinking" side of the cerebral cortex where the memory becomes foggy. 

Amy E. Brucker founder of Dream Tribe has a different theory however. She believes we forget our dreams for a whole host of reasons. The ones that stood out to me were "disinterest in dreams" apparently if you don't try to pay attention during your dreams you can't recall them. Another is "dreams are weird". This one elaborates that because dreams are so unique compared to our day-to-day lives we really have no ways of explaining it. To check other reasons why we forget our dreams, click on the link.

Step by Step Guide to Dream Recall

Here are the basics on how to better remember your dreams in a short video.                           Sweet dreams, everyone!

What time is it?

I have a dream. I have a dream where I don't waste my summers. I'm that kid who always wakes up at 11, never has breakfast and just goes straight to brunch, laggies around the rest of the day like a bum watching Netflix and eating Rice Krispie treats while sometimes walking to pick up the remote. Meet da bum. On the other hand, in my head there is better me-even maybe a perfect me(yes, i know nobody's perfect Miley made that crystal clear)-who actually gives a damn.

 A person who goes to sleep at a decent hour and wakes up at a decent one. One who knows that working out will actually benefit even if it sucks. One that realizes that summer as long as it seems will be short once you get to the end and you've done absolutely nothing and have nothing to show for it. I'm not saying buy a typewriter and crank out a novel, I'm saying do something you haven't done. Most of us are so self-deprecating. We have no faith in ourselves. I don't if it's because we're too scared or too lazy. The line seems to pretty blurry these days.

You know if there's one thing I've learned this year, it's that the only thing that fucks things up is your head. I'm not the physically strongest, but my mental strength can give anyone a run for their money and I think that's what makes a difference in the end. It isn't about how far you can run, it's about how far are you willing to run. 

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