Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.