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6:41am December 27, 2014
Crater Lake, Oregon.  I know it looks like I’m sitting in front of a giant postcard, but this is a real place, and a beautiful one.  Unfortunately, I rarely got to experience the beauty of such places firsthand.  Travel filled up my brain so heavily with new visual experiences that it was all I could do not to scream or collapse by the end of the day.  It’s only when places get pushed back into my long-term memory, and all the sensory pieces reassembled bit by bit in some kind of warehouse in my head that they don’t let me see directly, that I can actually enjoy a totally new place without feeling like my head will explode.  Often my memories of a place are much better than my direct experience of a place at the time, and this is why. Unfortunately, there are times when my brain gets so full and so overloaded that nothing can put the pieces back together again, ever.  And then i’m just left with the original sensory experience s my only memory of the place.

Crater Lake, Oregon.  I know it looks like I’m sitting in front of a giant postcard, but this is a real place, and a beautiful one.  Unfortunately, I rarely got to experience the beauty of such places firsthand.  Travel filled up my brain so heavily with new visual experiences that it was all I could do not to scream or collapse by the end of the day.  It’s only when places get pushed back into my long-term memory, and all the sensory pieces reassembled bit by bit in some kind of warehouse in my head that they don’t let me see directly, that I can actually enjoy a totally new place without feeling like my head will explode.  Often my memories of a place are much better than my direct experience of a place at the time, and this is why.

Unfortunately, there are times when my brain gets so full and so overloaded that nothing can put the pieces back together again, ever.  And then i’m just left with the original sensory experience s my only memory of the place.

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  1. unicorn-a-queerio said: I get that too. My muscles have times where they don’t really work, it’s not painful per say so much as it is dreadful. But It’s so loud that I can’t take anything else in, and I become extremely irritable and have huge gaps in my memory when it does
  2. autistic-pyro reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    i love crater lake so much. m y aunt would take me there all the time when i was little and we would visit. it’s amazing...
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