I've noticed this too on both of the iPods I've owned/currently own. My workaround for this was to go and set up a Smart Playlist that would only play songs that had zero playbacks. At least that way i could listen to some of the music I may have been neglecting among the thousands of others.
Does this film have anything to do with The Storm Riders featuring Sonny Chiba? If it does it's awesome and features a pretty hardcore guy named Cloud.
Nope. Here in Hawaii we've assimilated the Asian practice of taking your shoes off before you come in or at least before you step out of the foyer area or wherever the carpet stops. I'm guessing you guys who were talking about walking around the house with slippers on are referring to bedroom slippers. That's a pretty Japanese thing from my experience. Also, here in Hawaii slippers are those things you folks might call flip-flops or thongs.
Holy crap who the heck let you watch Golgo 13 when you were a kid? As for myself I grew up watching Transformers (the original series), G.I. Joe (also the original), M.A.S.K., Silverhawks, Thundercats, He-Man, Voltron, Tranzor Z, Dinosaucers, Video Power, Captain N: the Gamemaster, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Bravestarr, C.O.P.S., Batman the animated series, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Crayon Shinchan (not the effed up English dub, but the original effed up Japanese subtitled), and some other shows.
I have to agree with this method. Even if you fib about the time it's still up to chance that they'll still make it in time. Best way is to simply take control and remove the variable. Of course, this introduces another instance where your friends could be late, "I told you I was coming to pick you up at six! I came by to grab you five minutes after and you're not even ready to leave." Oh well, take what you can get I guess.
I guess reality or whether or not something is real is no more than a matter of consensus. Since all human perception is subjective, different people are bound to have different views on things. Reality would then be whatever the majority or whole can agree upon, thus the most common perception. It's like that one point in the Matrix where Morpheus asks if reality is no more than what your senses tell you. Senses can be tricked and blinded which means that one person's perception of reality is not as stable as they would have you believe. Another film reference that plays upon this idea is the film that inspired the Metallica song "One". I don't recall the title but the story goes that a young soldier is injured during a war. He loses all of his limbs and becomes deaf, blind and mute. The only thing he is able to perceive is that he is alive somehow and he can only suppose he's alive simply because he can think.
Assuming that there truly is an objectivness to the world around us there is ultimately no way to prove it. You could build a robot that could, theoretically, percieve the world in an objective manner which would boil the world down to nothing but the most primary of sensations. However, you could never verify the veracity of the data because the second that you approach it the data would become subjective. I thought about this for a while based on the idea that what we see is light reflected off of an object. This isn't even considering the tendency of the human brain to seek out patterns, thus warping what we percieve to better fit within our range of reference. So that means that the objects that we see around us are not exactly as we see them. In a way, they are the opposite of what we percieve if we were capable of objective perception.
I'm an extrovert. I make friends easily and that helps me a lot at my job where I have to earn peoples' trust quickly. I like attention, but get more of a buzz out of making people laugh. That said, I'm also comfortable by myself as well, which is how I prefer to play games and be online. I've learned that I don't like being IM'd when I'm online doing something other than sitting on my IM or if I'm in the middle of playing a game.
Some cultures believe that sleep paralysis is caused by a demon or ghost sitting on your chest. Although the entirety of the astral projection may in fact simply be, as you said, a halucination brought on by your subconcious mind latching onto the concept as provided by your concious self that doesn't mean it can't be a beneficial thing. You should look into lucid dreaming, where you manage to become aware while in a dream and potentially be able to shape the dream to whatever you like. For a while some company was selling this sleep mask with two LEDs sewn into them. Sensors would detect whenever you would enter REM sleep and trigger the LEDs. Then you'd have to try and remember that you're using the device and watch for the pulsing lights in your next dream which would be your reminder that you're in a dream. Doing things like that, playing with your own illusions, might cause you to think about something in a different way. It's like that saying about being able to find a truth hidden within a lie.
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