I'm taking a short study break to share a quote from my neuroscience professor. She's a genius and the funniest person I know. Not Jim Carey facial skin-stretching supersillyess funny (No, I didn't mean to type "supercilious"). Or Robin Williams boingy wall bouncing curiously bizarre funny. But a dry Frasier and Niles Crane wit that I've been thirsting for on television since the end of that show. Picture a short, full-figured women with glasses and tightly cropped hair, choosing her words meticulously when instructing the class: Professor Cadenas.
"We constantly exist in a state of semi-delusion. You will see me as I was, never as I am."
In reference to the visual system in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain. By the time our visual sensory input arrives at the occipital lobe, it is a part of the past. We never see the actual present as it happens. "Mothers really do have eyes in the back of their heads."
Now, imagine toiling over college-ruled loose-leaf paper, tightly gripped pens, neck extension /flexion from note-taking and overhead projector-watching. Then hearing that we're all semi-delusional. It's so much funnier if you've been in the same classroom for the past 6 hours. Professor Cadenas rocks!
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