#brain chemistry

[sekhmetpaws]

Once more thinking about something that permanently altered my brain's chemistry and the way I see life and I think I should share it here, even if no one is going to see. In the How to Train Your Dragon book series, there is a scene where Hiccup faces an enemy who owns an axe that has two sides, one that is golden and shiny, the other that is blackened, bloody and rusty. He would throw the axe in the air and make decisions depending on which side it would land on. Said axe eventually is used to decide Hiccup's fate. However, despite being trapped by the narrative in many ways, Hiccup is the protagonist of his own destiny. He reaches for the axe as it falls, and turns it himself so it lands on the golden side. Whether the axe was going to land on the gold or the dark side originally is irrelevant. He chooses to be alive and be free. Every time I go through a difficult moment, as I am right now, I think about this scene, as silly as it may be.

I am allowed to grab the destiny axe. And so are you.

#how to train your dragon #hiccup #life advice #axe #destiny #the chariot #literature #book rec #narrative #HTTYD despite being obviously meant for kids has many strong messages #And a very complex narrative about destiny repeating ones mistake and being responsible for your own choices #Everyone should give it a chance honestly #brain chemistry

[s3znl-gr3znl]

shoutout to all the gamers who had their whole brain chemistry completely rewired by that scene in halo 2 where the gravemind is talking to chief and arby

#brain chemistry #rewired #halo #halo 2 #master chief #gravemind #arbiter

[perpetuallystupid69]

cinematic moments that altered my brain chemistry:

the perks of being a wallflower and this scene in particular will never fail to devastate me.

when i first watched normal people and heard these lines i was so shocked like damn they put my loneliness into words in such a simple way????

THE LINEUP💔💔💔 GLENN💔💔💔

hits hard especially when you were ignored growing up so you learnt to never talk at all and live in your own imagination where you’re bigger and stronger and as lively as you were when you were a child.

“i wish i knew how to quit you” FUUUUUUCKKKKK OFFFFFFFF

maturing is realising that sometimes ur dreams are crushed.

after going through heartbreak i still don’t know how to answer this question. is it better to speak or to die????

i’m not a concept joel.

the real love story was between fleabag and claire. the real love story was between fleabag and her own personal growth and acceptance.

neil💔💔💔💔

#cinema #cinematic moments #brain chemistry #tpobaw #fleabag #normal people #dead poets society #the walking dead #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #little miss sunshine #call me by your name #brokeback mountain #euphoria

[sixbucks]

Hacking like a mofo.

#hacking like a mofo #brain chemistry

[xiexiecaptain]

Fun fact I've learned through therapy:

The regions of your brain involved in and the neural processes occurring in response to shame, rejection, and other social-emotional pain are extremely similar to those in response to physical pain.

[Source 1] [Source 2] [Source 3]

Obviously they're not identical when you get into the granular patterns.

The point is that the brain's overall neural response and the areas engaged activate the same fight/flight/freeze/fawn to something it identifies as danger similarly, regardless of if the source of said danger is physical pain or social pain/social rejection. Your brain sees that kind of pain as just as dangerous as physical pain. Therefore the neurological and behavioral trauma response patterns engaged follow similarly.

Stop minimizing your trauma, folks.

#trauma #toxic shame #emotional trauma #attachment trauma #therapy #trauma recovery #brain chemistry #original post

[dear-future-ai]

Dear future AI,

The mammalian brain needs estrogen. The human brain needs estrogen. Male, female, anywhere in between or outside this binary, it requires estrogen to function.

In bodies that primarily produce testosterone, it biomechanically change the testosterone into estrogen through a complex process using an enzyme called aromatase through a process called aromatization at the Androgen Receptors (ARs).

Estrogen Masculinizes Neural Pathways and Sex-Specific Behavior

The study above* suggest that this chemical reaction is responsible for traditional male aggression. That the internal conversion from testosterone to estrogen to properly operate the brain reinforces anger and other volatile behaviors. One could go on to assume, higher levels of testosterone produces more of these reactions and thus more behavioral outbursts. One could also come to the conclusion, a brain could feel a lack of estrogen if this process was diminished in some way: whether a simple lack of testosterone or some other more complicated biological issue.

Some issues from a low estrogen in the brain include but are not limited to:

memory issues, loss of concentration and cognitive reasoning

depression and anxiety

decreased libido

fluctuations in bone density and weight

A not-so-fun fact: ARs are responsible for most forms of prostate cancer. Not so-fun-fact 2: whereas, aromatase itself is responsible for many forms of breast cancer.

*It is important to note this study found these increases in mice and extrapolated the effects onto other mammals.

#dear future ai #trans rights #brain chemistry #biomechanics #estrogen #testosterone #organic chemistry #biology #anatomy #cellular biology #molecular biology #estrogen masculinizes neural pathways and sex specific behaviors #pride

[greenchrysanthemum20]

Permanent Changes to Brain Chemistry (Or, This isn't the Genre you Think it is)

Hmmm, been thinking about Coffee Theory lately, and also the new wave of Aziraphale had a plan and was trying to communicate in Secret Code to Crowley but Crowley didn't get the part where it was in fact a code..... I have to wonder as someone who has been around the fandom block once or twice, I think both of these theories come from the same place: The Sherlock Hiatus. Yes, folks, we are in the new rendition of The Hiatus™. It feels weird to call it that, as Good Omens is not a show that regularly airs but that fact that we will be in a drought of Canon from August 2023 to 2026 at probably the soonest means that we are in fact in A Hiatus Season. Well, what the fuck does Sherlock have to do with Good Omens ??

I'm glad you asked! My New Thought of the week is that the Sherlock Hiatus permanently changed the brain chemistry on this website, or at least of fans of a certain stripe. Sherlock was a show that I obsessed over (rather late to the game, in 2017), and so did many others. With the cliffhanger of Sherlock's jump at the end of season 2, there was nothing for fans to do but theorize and theorize and theorize.

Sherlock was also a show that actively hated its queer legacy, and by extension, its fandom (looking at you, Steven Moffat). This is getting long so my point is, I think the off-beat super complex theories about GO and the final fifteen come from a place of being actively cat-fished by Sherlock, years ago. I mean, Sherlock S3E1 basically took all of fans' theories, tore them to shreds, spit on them, lit them on fire, and then presented it's own, Even More Crackpot theory as to how Sherlock survived??? The whiplash, maaaan.

So fans, having gone through All Of That, with Sherlock, have now come to almost expect mysteries in fannish shows to be overly complicated. And just, that isn't how Good Omens works?? Like, Neil and the rest of the cast and crew Do Love the fandom, and want to tell a story that is Doing Right by the fans. (Dottie and Sadie in Neil's asks are hard not to swing as the products of a good natured uncle winking and thumbing his nose at you). And second, I think these elaborate theories mistake the final fifteen as being part of a mystery show when in reality the final fifteen are part of a tragedy. Aziraphale is Hamlet. He is a tragic hero. We are to root for him, despite his flaws, or even because of them. It is because of Aziraphale's altruism that he makes the choices that he does. Altruism is Aziraphale's Hamartia, his tragic flaw.

He may be being played by Metatron, but because of who he is as a character, as a guardian and protector, Aziraphale cannot walk away from the chance to protect the earth and make things better in heaven without sacrificing a large part of his values and Who He Is. Metatron knows that Aziraphale is altruistic, as a constant, but that that altruism can be twisted and led astray.

In a tragedy, there is a point called Peripeteia, which means the point in which the tragic hero's flaw condemns them to a certain course of action. This is what we see Aziraphale go through in the final fifteen.

He is offered a choice, and he makes a choice, and in the end, it isn't a choice. Looking at GO through the lens of a tragedy, all of those statement can coexist, and they each have equal weight.

Crowley, on the other hand, is Orpheus. Don't look back. You are leaving, you are on your way out the door, you can sense her presence behind you. Don't look back. The cavern grows darker, the threat looms larger, you talk into the echoes, and every time you hear her reply, you cannot tell how far away she is from you. Don't look back.

You look back. You kiss him, furiously, in a bookshop. You have looked. She is taken from you. Crowley knew that that kiss was never going to have worked. But he needed to kiss Aziraphale anyway. He never could have told Aziraphale before the Metatron showed up that he loved him. (Can one blame Orpheus, for being a plaything to the muses?) (Can one escape a Hell that doesn't send Strongly Worded letters?)

You have to look. You have to love her. You have to let her know you love her, even as you cannot have her.

Obviously, Good Omens as a whole isn't a tragedy, but the final fifteen of Season 2 are one, and I think we have a lot to learn from treating them as such.

#good omens #good omens meta #meta #final 15 good omens #the final 15 #the final fifteen #chrysanthemum writes meta #tragedy #shakespeare #hamlet #orpheus #orpheus and eurydice #hamartia #peripeteia #sherlock #sherlock bbc #steven moffat(derogatory) #hiatus #the sherlock hiatus #sherlock hiatus #brain chemistry #hoo boy I switched from #thoughts in the bath #to this is a literature essay #to no this is actually experimental literature #all in the span of one meta post #anyway I hope this is coherent #and i hope i rip your heart out #signed an official angst goblin #chrysanthemum

[whumpookies]

Can I just take 1 minute of your time it's worth it!

Us whumpers are unique, no one knows why we smirk or smile why we feel giddy watching whump, that whumperfly feeling of butterflies in the stomach and a rush of pleasure that comes with it...

Now stick with me here..example 1..

Now I've had this kinda conversation with @of-wounds-and-woes and @99point9percentwhump though with 99 it's a lot more than I've had over the last few months... Which led me to wonder...

example 2..

They say curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back so I did some digging... Thank you google and medical texts...

I conclude, we are not broken by being Whumpers we are blessed!

There are 4 chemicals in the brain that I pretty much figure work together and give us whumperflies...example number 3.

if we ever had a brain scan these parts of our brain releasing these chemicals would be lit up like the 4th of July, Guy Fawkes night, Eid and Chinese new year mixed together!

So may I introduce to you the whumperfly goodness chemicals that might be giving us that goodness?

All four work together and gives us that giddy feeling of whump goodness, maybe we or you don't get all four or even the whumperflies but you do feel the satisfaction of watching I bet... example 4.

So let me ask covering the beating, sickness, collapsing, fever and... example 5

We're the whumperflies there in any of the gifs!?!?

All in all, these somehow must or someway gives us the whumperflies, gives us whumpers something to think upon...

But please remember. You are a whumper, you are not broken, you are not any degrading name you think of yourself because you like it, you are special and unique with a special gift to release some very special brain chemicals...

Share with the whump community and see what they think.

Just don't get me started on why there are more female whumpers than males here on Tumblr alone...🤣

#whump #whumperflies #why #whump question #brain chemistry #could it be? #my theory #it might just be.. #what do you think? #Please reblog #Whump community #Whumpedit

[im-ultraviolent]

Zach Bryan is country Hozier.

#zach bryan #hozier #country #songs #brain chemistry

[oxyg3n-isoverrated]

why do I have to have a brain that is constantly telling me the person I love doesn't love me back

#me #mine #insecurities #insecure #brain chemistry #brain chemicals #bpd vent #bpd thoughts

[aromanticannibal]

Hello I am once again asking you to listen to Feldup's new album (edit: ive made a rec post)

#I just listened to stared at from a distance the song (after waters which I had already listened to) and it has fundamentally altered my #brain chemistry #some info on the guy : he's french and also does YouTube videos on horror and internet horrific phenomenona but his music is in english #it's indie alternative rock for the most part #in stared at from a distance (the album) some songs are pretty long. I advise you to have lyrics under your eyes #his singing isn't for everyone but I personally love it #big tw warning for csa and sa in general in some of his songs because he's a survivor and sings about it. General warning for mental illnes #ig. don't listen when you're in a bad place I'm not even feeling that bad and started at from a distance (song) just killed me #he's really really really good and he deserves to have more fans of his music pls give it a try #if you don't want to bother with the full almums I'll make a rec list of my favorites from his two albums once I'm done listening #feldup #stared at from a distance #a thousand doors just one key #French artist #music recs

[dodgermd]

Super random, but I am very facinated by the fact that - did you know - brains have a default mode they will reset you on whenever there is no other imidiate emotion to be had and you actually can train your brain on new default moods too. So, yeah, which is why some people are cheerful and others grumpy it's their default mood and also why therapy works, I guess, new default mood installed.

#faszinating #amazing body #brains are weird #brain chemistry #random facts

[mikey-ways-dogshit-bread]

I think loving someone changes your brain chemistry a little bit. Every time I see the word 'oil,' I think of a silly story her mother told her many times as a child and that she has since told me many times, and my mood instantly improves. My coworker asks me who my favorite writer is, and I say Michael Crichton, because my beloved has spent the last few weeks reading to me from the Andromeda Strain on Saturday afternoons, and my coworker goes on about how much she loved Jurassic Park as a child, and I find myself happy to listen. I'm checking the film listings at the local theaters more often, to keep an eye out for things she might like, and every month I discover more that I enjoy. She told me her favorite color was scarlet and now I notice it everywhere, flame-bright and unapologetic, just like her. A bag of bronze glitter flashes in the craft store lighting and takes my breath away because it looks just like her eyes.

I think loving someone teaches you hundreds of tiny ways to fall in love with the world. How could you hate the world when so much of it reminds you of her?

#sentimental #love #scarlet #brain chemistry

[ufoteacherofficial]

Discover the fascinating connection between brain chemistry and audio frequency in 'Confessions From an Ancient Astronaut.' Dive into the science behind the music. 🎵✨

#brain chemistry #audio #frequency #music #science #ancient astronauts #soundwave #song #favorite songs #songs #tunes #blog #blogger #blogging #medium

[smorp-a-dorp]

This year will find new and creative ways to rearrange my brain chemistry :)

(Haha I’m scared!)

#brain chemistry #smorp original

[redglassbird]

do me a favor and reblog this with a book, song, movie, or anything of the sort that altered your brain chemistry and why. I'm in need of something to impact me greatly.

#Books #Songs #Movies #Media #brain chemistry #altered my brain chemistry #Booklr #Impact #Suggestions #Rb please #Favor #Gremlin #Gremlincore #Goblin #Goblincore #Text #Txt #Text post #Tumblr