Places where reality is a bit altered:
• any target
• churches in texas
• abandoned 7/11’s
• your bedroom at 5 am
• hospitals at midnight
• warehouses that smell like dust
• lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore
• empty parking lots
• ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods
• rooftops in the early morning
• inside a dark cabinet
- playgrounds at night
- rest stops on highways
- deep in the mountains
- early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed
- trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic
- schools during breaks
- those little beaches right next to ferry docks
- bowling alleys
- unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips
- your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep
- laundromats at midnight
what the fuck
- galeries in art museums that are empty except for you
- the lighting section of home depot
- stairwells
•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues
I just got the weirdest feeling I swear
OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!
A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.
The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.
I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.
Honestly, figuring out how you study/learn best will affect whether big or small (you decide on that) how you’ll do whenever you have a test or a quiz and the results that come after. I’m pretty sure we all want to perform well on our tests so we find ways to do so.
We have all the resources; the books, the websites, the apps so it’s a matter figuring out the best way for us to study.
I’ve concluded that where you study, how you study, what you use to study and what you listen to when you study will help you perform best.
1. Find the place most conducive for you to study.
here’s a post by @studyspire on how to find your study spot and a post by @universi-tea on study places
2. Choose/Use the study method that works for you. If you’re a visual or auditory, reading/writing or kinesthetic kind of learner, I think it will be best for you to use the methods for studying that work best on your type.
some posts you can refer to:
study methods and what suits you better by @getstudyblr
the four types of learners by @highlightcrs
*other study methods by @letsget-downtobusiness3. If you’re type that likes to use highlighters or coloured pens, find out which colour will help you remember best. The way you can determine this is only by your standards. What works best for me are yellow and green fluorescent highlighters if the text is printed and accent colours if the text is handwritten. You’ll only really know what will work for you with trial and error so experiment. You probably will have an idea on which colours might work for you already so you can try testing it whenever you have a test or a quiz. Quiz if you aren’t comfortable in doing something what you might think might cost you before a test.
4. Are you the digital type, the printed type or handwritten type? What I’m trying to tell you is to use the means that will help you out most. For digital for example, you remember and understand things if you’re reading your notes from your tablet, ipad or computer. Printed is if typing your notes, then printing them and then reading them will help you out more or reading from the book and lastly handwritten, if you think reviewing what your studying for will require you to rewrite your notes, read from your notebook, make flashcards or make mind maps- that you of course hand-wrote will make you perform best in the test, then use whatever method is necessary for you.
5. Are you a solitary learner or a group learner? Do you study best if you work alone or do you have to have a study group with your friends? Work with whoever will help you whether it’s yourself or somebody else.
6. Listen to the sound perfect for you. Most people would listen to classical music some acoustics and others electronic music. I wouldn’t really recommend lyrical music because you end up thinking of the words sung in the song but if it works for you then go ahead. Like in number 3, You’ll only really know what will work for you with trial and error so experiment. You might already have an idea on which might work on you best so choose the best time for you to test it.
some playlists/playlist masterposts for you:
soundtracks for study by @lushstudy
studying and gaming playlists and soundtracks by @studylouspotify has a lot playlists so you know pick one that interests you and try it out. Music doesn’t work on all people so experiment as well if you work better without.
That’s all I have to say mostly. Manipulate the circumstances whenever you study so you can be at your best when the exam comes. I hope this will have helped you. This is only part of how well we perform on a test. I’m sure we all know that. We still have to sleep early, stay hydrated and eat to keep us at your peak while we study. How we feel particularly on that day and at those moments before and while we take our test also determine our performance so we manage the aspects that we can.
I hope you all slay your exams get the grades you wish to get with all your hard work.
-lara
other references that may be of help:
backseat serenade is like my favourite song
