the moon :)

The moon 

Maybe it is weird that a 19- year-old guy writes this, but the moon is that companion that even though it doesn’t seem like it, it helps me a lot and it gives me inspiration and it helps me open my mind and get to know things about myself that I didn’t know before, how to take a look at it in moments of high stress and it helps me find serenity, I forget about my problems and my routine and I can submerge in a sea of calmness, in which only my thought exist and my questions that normally are: what am I doing? Am I happy with this life? What can I do to be better? I can last hours observing that white sphere that sticks with me through every dark night: my good friend.

She helps me forget, but she also brings me memories that maybe bring sadness to me, because they were really happy moments that I would like to have a time machine and go back to that moment in which my life was so different, with its bad moments but also with a lot of happiness. I don’t mean that things have changed giving a bad turn, but it just means that my happiness was different. I love to observe it, as well as she observes me and is witness to everything that happens in the dark. I know that she will be with me through anything till the end of my days and that is why I speak to her, even though she doesn’t listen to what I do, because she is my inspiration and tranquility.

I really enjoy writing because it’s my way to express what I am feeling in determined moment or what I am doing and this way I can “immortalize” it, because your mind forgets it a lot of the time but when you write your thought they stay written forever. I recommend you to write often, whatever, whenever, just let your mind lose, even if your ideas seem silly. I look forward to reading your comments, thank you so much.

The Stanford University Experiment

Stanford University Experiment

This experiment also known as Lucifer effect was a psychological study that went through in Stanford University in 1971 in which the plan was to create a prison like ambiance and the conducts that man develops being under these circumstances like the marine corps of the United States. The people that were part of it were chosen with an ad posted up for a job offering a salary of $15 per day for participating in an experiment. Out of 70 persons that applied to the ad, only 24 were chosen, the ones with the best conditions in physical and psychological health. They were all college students.

The group was divided into guards and prisoners, and a rumor started that the students assigned to guards were chosen because they had more physical strength, although they were really chosen by flipping a coin so that there would be no preference.

The prison was built up in the basement of The College of Psychology in the same university. The guards were given military uniforms and shades so they wouldn’t cross eyes with the prisoners, which were just given robes without any underwear and flip-flops and a stocking over their heads in order to create an aspect of inferiority between them and the guards, and the prisoners were called by numbers instead of their names and they also had a chain on their ankles as a reminder of their imprisonment.

One day before starting the experiment, the guards had a meeting in which they were explained all the rules and procedures they had to follow, which were al focused in humiliating the prisoners as well as intimidating them in a way of letting them know that the guards were the ones that were in control of their lives. The prisoners were only told to wait for a visit in their houses. Without any notice, they were arrested by real cops that cooperated in the experiment and they were transferred to the fake prison and this way the first real part of the experiment was done.

The experiment came out of control really fast because the prisoners were so trapped in their character that they accepted the sadistic mistreatment they were given by the guards who didn’t even follow instructions and little by little the prisoners started suffering big emotional traumas only by the second day of the experiment. As the time went by the participants of the experiment forgot that it was only a research experiment and this caused a big problem; the guards separated the good prisoners and bad prisoners making them do denigrating chores like cleaning the bathrooms with bare hands as well as homosexual acts particularly at night when the guards thought the cameras were off.

Two of the prisoners had to leave the experiment because they started showing too big psychological traumas. After 6 days, the experiment had to be canceled because it was getting out of control. It lasted only two days of the scheduled 2 weeks.

This experiment was kind of an impact on me and this is why I decided to share it with you. Hope you liked it. Thanks.

for fans of Metallica: Cliff Burton, a legend of heavy metal

A LEGEND OF HEAVY METAL: CLIFF BURTON

It has been 25 years since one of the best bass players ever left us in a tragic way, the great bass player from Metallica: Cliff Burton. Considered by a lot of people, me included, Cliff was one of the best musicians in heavy metal and trash metal.

What pushed this man was his love for music and his brother’s Scott memory, which died when he was only 13 years old. Cliff was a pianist but when Scott passed away he decided to turn to a bass player in honor of honor of his brother. He wanted to be the best bass player in the world, and he got it. He nearly missed the cut into the band, but if it was not for the idea of going to San Francisco, he would have never been able to play with Metallica. From 1983 to 1986, Cliff became the life of the band and that is why Metallica owes him so much, in fact a lot of what the singer (James) knows about writing and rhythms knows, he knows because of Cliff. They were like brothers. He was the most affected by Cliff’s death, and he became an alcoholic and ended up needing psychological help.

Cliff died at the age of 24, on September 17^th in 1986. The bus, on which he was going back to his hotel while on a tour in Sweden, flipped over. The band’s guitarist (Kirk) tell about how that night he had made a bet on a card game with Cliff that whoever lost would sleep on the back of the bus, and Cliff won with pocket aces. Approximately at 6 a.m. Kirk was awoken by a tire screeching followed by some shaking; it were the back tires drifting in the highway and moments after, the bus flipped over. Everybody was out of the bus shocked by the accident without even knowing Cliff’s body was lying lifeless under the bus.

As it was expected, Cliff marked a lot of this band’s fans and he was a great role model to a lot of today’s musicians.

I hope this little post about this musician was entertaining to you. This great musician showed everybody that no matter our age, if we set a goal we can be the best in whatever we want, if we truly do it with all our heart and our passion. In my opinion, I love music and I spent a lot of time on it because someday I would like to become a great musician and that’s why I chose to write about this person who dedicated his life to music and that being so young he accomplished being world-wide known. Thank you.   

Favourite Movies

One of my favorite movies: Across the universe

I would like to talk a little about this movie because it passes in one of my favorite times: the 60’s.

The movie is a musical that talks about the love story of Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Jude (Jim Sturgess) and the psychodelic 60s in the U.S., Jude travels to this country in order to look for his father but he is beaten for the big changes in that time and here is where he falls In love with jude, a pretty rich girl and the sister of his best friend: Max  who a time ago is called to sign up to army and fight in the Vietnam war, but thereafter he was injured and sent back to home. Tired of the changes and movements of that time, they decides to start an amazing travel with Sadie, Jojo and Prudence on the Dr. Robert’s famous bus called “the beyond”.

Many of the characters are based on real artists of the 60’s , starting with “the quarry men”, it was the band thas was used as the foundation for The beatles, and the Sadie and Jojo characters that were inspired in Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The bus in wich this crew  of friends were traveling also existed and was called  “the furthur” in such a group of persons  called “the merry pranksters”.were traveling.

I really recommend this movie to all those persons  whose loves  that time and the beatles because all the soundtracks are compositions of them, I hope you to watch this movie and enjoy this post =D thank you.

Hanging out with my friends!!

From: Valeria Alvarado Ramos

My best trip in college, was with friends of nutrition, when we travel to Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 
It was the best and most fun trip as we spent 5 days, 4 nights there, we went one day at night, my boyfriend came with me to let me, where all the buses, there I met my friends, and all we were crazy for leaving, after I said goodbye to him, and then I climb into the bus.

 I was so excited I could not help saying goodbye through the window, it was very embarrassing, because all families were following the bus down, but I did not care, because of how excited I was. We slept most of the way , we stop some several times, to go to the restrooms,and jus when we get there, we run so we can choose our rooms.
The first thing Idid was,painting my hair, so I can look good, jajaand my friendsrushed to buybeer,and just wen I got ready, we were called to go tothe opening of thecongress Interlobos Mazatlan ,that nightall the students ofthe UniversityDurangoSantander, we gotthe shirts, and were ready tostart the party,that night we went backearly becausewe wanted to bealoneand have funall nutritions girls, we went to our rooms andI laugheda lot  because they wereall drunk. Somedays, we hadto get upearly,andwe had meetings about the Congress, andwe rosedefeated,but readyfor anything.Almost every day, We got up late and ate very badly, but we did not stopdrinking beer,  drinking is not always good, but weall were very well behaved,and we enjoybeing togetherso many days, I'm expecting anotherconferencejust to have the same fun,or better, I hope someone comes soon!!

Jennifer’s Body

Hi, hope everyone is fine, I am going to speak about Jennifer’s Body film.

Personally, I like this movie, because it is very entertaining and it’s fun to me seen it. It is one of my favorite movies and I would never be tired of seen it. 

This is a horror film, combined with comedy; this film has the sexiest actress in the world, called Megan Fox.

This film it’s about two best friends from high school living in a small town, where one of them is the most popular and sexy girl in school, and the other the most nerd. The sexiest is called Jennifer and she is arrogant with everyone, but so popular and beautiful, where any man would die to be with her.

One night Jennifer invite her best friend out, they went to a small bar, where it would be a Rock Band,  this boys were looking for a virgin girl in that town, to take her and according to a diabolical book, they had to kill her so they could become famous.

The bar began to burn later, so Jennifer decided to go with them, leaving his best friend alone. They took her to a forest, away from that place, thinking she was a virgin and they   killed her.

That night she appeared at her best friend house, with blood in her body, she started to vomit blood and her best friend was so scared, she was confused and did not know if it was real or not.

The next day, Jennifer was normal, and she thought it was a dream. But not knowing, Jennifer became a sexy devil.  Within the days, Jennifer started to get ugly and did not understand why, until she realized she needed blood, so she began to take blood from men who want her and she became more beautiful and got stronger. Every time she did not do it, she would get ugly. 

When Jennifer’s best friend  discover Jennifer’s problem, she became more confused and did not know what to do, but in the end, she was the only one that could protect the men of this evil, and best friend of her. As well her boyfriend, cause in the end, Jennifer would try to keep him.

Hope you like it too. Do you?..

Sleep Paralysis

Have anyone of you ever experienced this? I bet that most of you will say yes.

I chose this topic because I've been having some episodes of this disorder and I would like to talk to you about it and share my own experience.

Sleep paralysis, as the name says, it's a state where our body is fully paralyzed in the moment that we are asleep. There are several factors that can take someone to have this disorder. Some scientists have studied this sleep disorder and they say that is more likely that one person experiences this if he/she is sleeping in one specific position: with the back down and the face looking towards the ceiling. Other factors can be stress of any type, the environment surrounding the person or depression.

This disorder can last a few seconds or several minutes (like 2 minutes, more or less), and can be interrupted if anyone else tries to wake the person that is asleep, or he can wake up by himself after a certain period of time.

Sometimes, in this disorder may exist hallucinations or unpleasant dreams, for example, seeing another person in the same room, staring or trying to hurt us.

This problem decreases with the pass of the years,  it's more frequent in young people and it can stop at the age of 30, more or less. Although, there are some old people who can present this disorder too.

Now, I want to share my own experience. I've been a little stressed all this week, and on Wednesday I went to sleep at 12 AM and I had an episode of sleep paralysis. When I tried to wake up (obviously I couldn't), I clearly saw my sister waking up, and I thought "great, she's waking up, I'll tell her to wake me up, too", so I 'stretched' my arm to her and I 'touched' her leg. This was weird because I really felt her leg, but I wasn't even moving at all. Obviously, my sister didn't woke me up and I had to do it by myself. When I made it, I opened my eyes and I saw my sister completely asleep, I was so sleepy that I couldn't stay awake any longer and I closed my eyes again and I fell in the same for like 3 times or so. Then I changed my position and it didn't happen again that night. The same thing happened on Thursday night, but this time with no hallucinations.

There is another thing that I want to mention in this post. Maybe, the people that have experienced this, will know this thing: sometimes, when I am in this kind of situation, I try to pray. But I am not able to finish. I don't know why this happens. Actually, I've never been able to finish praying, it is so weird. When I talk about this with other people, they say me they can't finish, either.

I would like you to say something about this topic, share your experience if you've had this disorder. This is a topic that personally, I think is very interesting and I have noticed that a lot of people have passed through this too. Only one person has told me that this was a good experience, for me it wasn't good at all. What do you think?