You flip lethargically through your playlist of songs hoping to find something soothing and relaxing. Everyone is fighting and shouting in the kitchen while you’re curled up next to your bedroom window, looking up at the night sky. If only there was that perfect ambient song to help regain your peace, to help you drift [...]
You sit down, pull your hoodie tightly over your head, and plug in your earphones hard. It’s time for some alone time and you desperately want to block out the world, at least for the time being. The only problem is you’re bored. You’re bored of listening to the same old songs by the same [...]
It was around the time I learned the word “irony” that getting spanked for defending myself by hitting other children did not seem right. In fact, many things didn’t. Playing games with other children like “Pin the tail on the donkey” was the perfect example. Not only was it nerve wracking being blind folded, spun [...]
She has slender legs, long blond hair and is graceful with feminine coolness. I’ve got cellulite, dandruff and acne, and I walk like a constipated elephant. He has masculine chiselled features, a toned body, and a charming, charismatic personality. I’ve got bounteous facial hair, buckteeth, and a voice that sounds like a strangled donkey. Sound familiar [...]
As introverts, outcasts, and loners, we all know what it’s like at our cores to feel those inimical and innate feelings of displeasure when a stranger approaches us. Suddenly we find our bodies recoiling, our minds freezing and feelings of discomfort settling over us like a thick, heavy smog. But did you know that according to a [...]
From the personification of death as the Grim Reaper, to its embodiment as a large green dog called Cù-Sìth in Scottish folklore, death has been portrayed countless ways in countless cultures. If you’re like the majority of people, you’d much prefer to ignore the nagging truth that you’ll inevitably demise within the next 150 years – [...]
Halloween. It’s one of the few holidays every year that can be celebrated and enjoyed by the introverted loner, alone. Closing the curtains, turning off the lights and watching a well-made horror movie is the perfect stimulant for the introvert who doesn’t want to leave their house, yet still join in with festive spirit. Want [...]
We’ve all fantasized about it one time or another. As technology progresses and society evolves, our social duties increase drastically and we become overwhelmed with problems our ancestors never had to face before. When you can’t take tranquil joy in the private solace of relieving your bowls in the bathroom, because every time your posterior [...]
Fauns, elves, pixies, ghouls, trolls – the image of forests and woodlands arouse many feelings of mystery and intrigue. Not only do forests bring to mind mythical creatures, but they’re also the home of countless folklore tales and superstitions. Did you know that the Druids and the Germanic Pagans used to worship trees? No wonder the forest, [...]
Many of us know what it feels like to be wallflowers. We are the pew-sitters that watch the preachers perform. We’re the backstage-bunch that make the actors shine. We’re the Tesla’s that give the Edison’s the limelight. But increasingly, introverts everywhere are embracing their low lying role in society. We’re learning not to care for [...]
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream From private practice all the way to million dollar box office hits like Inception, Lucid Dreaming has intrigued the minds of many. But there’s more to lucid dreaming than meets the eye. It’s not [...]
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self. - GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal This article is a continuation of my introductory article on Lucid Dreaming. Once completing the three mental exercises of sharpening awareness, critically testing reality and keeping a dream journal, lucid dreaming will be a few steps away. This article [...]
Sol & Luna Old souls. Lovers of gnomes, books, rainy days and all things bizarre. Celebrators of solitude. Creators of LonerWolf: a sanctuary for the disconnected, displaced and misunderstood.
