Strange looking trees, caves and caverns, spider webs pressed to glass, cemetary rubbings, morticians humour, Christmas lights and glow in the dark things like jellyfish and fire flies, old medical illustrations, abandoned buildings and haunted forests to explore, unusual architexture and oddly shaped buildings, Deros and gremlins, ancient Native American legends about giants and/or dwarves, Bonsai trees, waterfalls, icebergs, entomology, moss covered things.....and candy, molassas and Black Forest ham.
Seance for a Rainy Afternoon, Suddenly Last Summer, Island of the Mushroom People, Decasia (decayed film stock set to haunting decayed music), the Devils, Vincent Price films and Peter Lorre.
Films you can watch different times and get different things out of rather than throw away mega blockbuster films that cost millions of dollars and are as fulfilling to watch as video games.
Television
the worse the better. Television should never be so good that people want to watch it all the time.
Books
odd local history, Curiosities and Abnormalities of Medicine and Science, Dear Dead Days, Wisconsin Death Trip, some Burroughs and JD Salinger, Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and horror and dark fantasy short stories.
I like humour and horror. They both overlap alot.
Heroes
ToeClaw, Sasquatch, the Wildman of the Woods, ambulance drivers and firemen.....and the garbageman because with out him everyone would immediately know right away.
I, I alone have seen the Phoenix fail, His regal wings their vibrant glories vail In gyres of baffled crimson, flagging gold Below the heaven of his conquests old. I, I alone have seen the Phoenix build His pyre with bitter myrrh and spices filled Amid the ardent waste; and none but I Has known his death and immortality, Has watched the yellowy teeth of flame consume Shell-tinted beak and heaven-painted plume, Has heard the fatal anguish of his cries And felt the fierce despair with which he dies Oblivious of that rebirth to he. Nor shall another know the mystery Of flames that turn to plumes, and ashes stirred To yield once more the fiery-crested bird With beating rainbow pinions that arise And take again the lost Sabean skies.
Phantom limb pain consistently baffles the medical community. Theories abound as to its cause, but they are only conjecture, and no consistently effective treatment exists -- until now. Clinical trials of "mirror therapy" at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have yielded surprising and welcome results. Mirror therapy consists of positioning a mirror in such a way that the intact limb is reflected in the position of the amputated limb. Patients flex and stretch the intact limb while looking in the mirror, creating an illusion for the mind that both limbs are present. After one month of mirror therapy, all patients in the clinical trial reported "significantly less" phantom pain. Half the patients performing the same routine with the mirror covered experienced an increase in pain, and those who only visualized the treatment experienced a 67% rate of decreased pain. When these patients were switched to mirror therapy, 90% experienced decreased pain. A similar study on mirror massage seems to corroborate the results of this study. The prevailing theory on phantom pain's origin is that the brain's ability to tell where a limb is located, which does not alter after amputation, is in conflict with the visual input of the missing limb. This conflict causes neurons to misfire, which sometimes results in a perception of pain. By bringing the visual input in alignment with the body's proprioception in mirror therapy, the brain is tricked into thinking both limbs remain present. Misfiring lessens, and pain decreases.
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