Strange Days Are Coming

The hippocampus is a cashew-shaped structure in your medial temporal lobe that serves as a critical processing center for memory formation, learning, and spatial navigation.

It has several key functions.

1. Memory Consolidation: It processes declarative memories (facts, dates, names) and episodic memories (personal events), transferring them to the cortex for long-term storage through mechanisms like long-term potentiation. 
2. Spatial Navigation: It creates cognitive maps of the environment using ‘place cells’, allowing individuals to track their position and navigate relative to objects and landmarks. 
3. Emotional Processing: As part of the limbic system, it works with the amygdala to associate emotions with memories and influences behavioral responses, including anxiety and avoidance behaviors. 
4. Learning and Behavior: It supports associative learning, such as eye blink conditioning, and regulates flexible, goal-directed behavior by integrating sensory inputs from vision, hearing, and touch.

The pineal gland is a small, pinecone-shaped endocrine gland located in the center of your brain that primarily functions as the body’s internal clock. Also known as the ‘spiritual third eye’, its regarded as the gateway of spiritual life as described in certain ancient concepts about the soul.  It acts as a tremendous coordinator of your molecular, hormonal, physiological, spiritual, and chemical self.

It also has several key functions:

1. Sleep Regulation: Melatonin levels rise during darkness to promote sleepiness and fall during daylight to maintain wakefulness. It regulates your circadian rhythms.
2. Hormonal Control: It influences reproductive development, particularly during puberty, and helps regulate seasonal biological rhythms. 
3. Neuroprotection: Melatonin acts as a potent antioxidant, protecting cells from oxidative stress and potentially shielding against neurodegeneration.
4. Immune and Mood Support: The gland contributes to immune system modulation and helps regulate mood, with imbalances linked to conditions like seasonal affective disorder.

Are these two fleshy devices the result of millions of years of evolution from apes to modern doomed humans or that of creation? Which theory or reality will determine the survival of the species? What makes the most sense to you?

How are you sleeping these days?

Sleep deprivation and chronic unpredictable stress are primary factors that damage both the pineal gland and the hippocampus.  These conditions suppress melatonin secretion from the pineal gland, which in turn leads to impaired hippocampal synaptic plasticity and structural damage to dendrites and spines in the hippocampus. 

Pineal gland calcification (brain sand) and reduced pineal volume, often associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease, further compromise pineal function.  This dysfunction reduces melatonin production, exacerbating neuroinflammation, inhibiting neurogenesis in the hippocampus, and contributing to memory loss and cognitive decline. 

Do your own research but there is ample scientific evidence that these two vital components of what helps people be useful and sane humans has been intentionally compromised. Whether it’s compromised food, air, and water or the advances in manipulative and oppressive technologies including fear based health interventions. Of course there is the war and rumors of war scenarios being broadcast that also rob us of peace and clarity and a good nights sleep.

If ever there was a song that summed up a large part of my life experience, ‘Strange Days’ by The Mathew Good Band is one of many. It was released in 2000 and became one of their big hits…not that big hits are everything. Although the song is supposed to tell a different story, one that interpretive video describes, it triggers images, memories and thoughts that have both plagued and inspired me. To read the lyrics without the music is a rather disjointed jumble of video bites but when heard as the full arrangement with Good’s warbling vocals evokes emotions welcome and unwanted.

‘Strange Days’ – Mathew Good Band

Good morning
Don’t cop out
You crawled from the cancer to land on your feet
Are you crazy to want this
Even for a while?
We’re making this shit up
The reasons for being are easy to pay
You can’t remember the others
They just kind of went away
So you’re driving, it’s rush hour
The cars on the freeway are moving like slugs
When you drift off to wake up
Do you always hit the brakes?

We’re done lying for a living
The strange days have come and you’re gone
Either dead or dying
Either dead or trying to go

It’s evening, you’re tired
You sleep walk, a robot out to the street
Are you crazy to want this, even for a while? you’re driving, it’s rush hour
The cars on the freeway are moving backwards
Into a wall of fire
Backwards
Into a wall of fire

We’re done lying for a living
The strange days have come and you’re gone
You’re gone
Either dead or dying
Either dead or trying to go
Good morning
Don’t cop out