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<\/a><\/p>\nI had a dream last night that I was a school teacher. \u00a0I walked into another teacher’s classroom and on the chalkboard someone had written lines, over and over, like when you get in trouble as a child.\u00a0\u00a0I could not read what the lines said.\u00a0 As I was looking at the chalkboard lines, trying to make out what it said, a bombastic little girl bounded in and erased a section across the middle of the words and quickly drew a huge stylized horse and then ran out of the room.\u00a0\u00a0I stood there staring at the image and the text and thought \u201cOh my god, this is perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
This drawing is not perfect like the girl’s drawing, but it is enough to hold the dream in place. \u00a0Since I couldn’t read the text in the dream, the text in my drawing says “I will not think of a horse” after that thing about how if someone says: Do not imagine a horse,<\/em> in order for your brain to not imagine a horse it first has to imagine a horse… which makes the whole thing impossible. \u00a0I think it is a well-known psychological exercise. \u00a0I just tried to find evidence of it online, but couldn’t, maybe I dreamed that too. \u00a0I’ve used it in text\/image classes for years, and will continue to do so.<\/p>\nRelated Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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