# I'm just throwing this out there **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809 "2016-06-08T04:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/1 "2016-06-08T04:46:02Z")
I don’t expect many of you to believe me about the circumstances of this. Maybe I wouldn’t believe it either if it wasn’t me. I was sitting and meditating a little while ago. I was drinking a cup of coffee. You won’t hear Indian gurus tell you this, but you can meditate and drink coffee at the same time. That probably sounds irreverent enough to give pause, but I swear on my honor this is true. Suddenly I was sitting with another person, drinking coffee somewhere other than where I actually was. We were contemplating a sphere, in which I understood was contained something whose nature originally was to multiply out of control and cause bad things to happen. I was being shown that the nature of whatever it was had been induced to involute itself, such that instead of ever-expanding outwards, it now expanded inwards. Or, whatever the inverse of “expand” is. Like, instead of multiplying, it was dividing, although I know that cells multiply BY dividing. It was multiplying in reverse. In retrospect it is a little hard to put into words. “Isn’t that avoiding dealing with the actual problem,” I said. “What problem?” my companion replied. My first thought as I returned to my regular self was about cancer cells, but I have no idea how the hell you would do that. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/2 "2016-06-08T05:23:53Z")
Are you sure it was just coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/3 "2016-06-08T06:51:55Z")
This sounds a bit like the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/4 "2016-06-08T07:08:21Z")
[Hypnagogia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia) (TLTC: You were dreaming) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/5 "2016-06-08T07:46:03Z")
What brand of coffee was this? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/6 "2016-06-08T10:27:48Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > What brand of coffee was this? Ersatz Bros: it’s the real shit! Now available in sector R! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/7 "2016-06-08T11:30:03Z")
Were you consuming coffee that had been soaked into blotter paper? ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/8 "2016-06-08T13:31:33Z")
This reminds me of the time as a child, under the influence of a severe fever, I was wracked by the conception of cell division, in all its tiny multitude. Like a terrifying virtual reality ride into my own bloodstream. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/9 "2016-06-08T15:00:15Z")
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown. The dream is gone ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/10 "2016-06-08T15:01:47Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown. The dream is gone But, are you comfortable? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/11 "2016-06-08T15:04:53Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown. The dream is gone [It was a Gneechee.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Spellsinger)(From \*The Spellsinger \*books) TV Tropes link. > [@](#): > > Ghost Lights: The gneechees which appear whenever Jon-Tom’s spellsinging is on track and particularly powerful; they don’t cause magic, exactly, but their presence facilitates or enhances it. They normally cannot be seen, not because the characters have No Peripheral Vision but because they actively dodge away whenever you try to look at them directly. You might be magical. Do people disappear when you sing? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/12 "2016-06-08T15:31:56Z")
Usually we called it mushroom _tea_, not mushroom coffee. But it’s just naming conventions in the end. Right there with you, brother. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/13 "2016-06-08T16:01:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > But, are you comfortable? I have become comfortably numb. [sub]Thanks for teeing that one up for me[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/14 "2016-06-08T16:05:22Z")
That’ll keep you going through the show. Come on, it’s time to go. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/15 "2016-06-08T16:21:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You might be magical. Do people disappear when you sing? My family certainly clears out of the room when I sing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/16 "2016-06-08T16:23:30Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > This reminds me of the time as a child, under the influence of a severe fever, I was wracked by the conception of cell division, in all its tiny multitude. Like a terrifying virtual reality ride into my own bloodstream. When i was a child, I had a fever. My body filled up the room like a giant bubble (not just my hands, which still sounds preverted). It was truly a weird feeling! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/17 "2016-06-08T16:31:07Z")
You just need to relax, relax, relax. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/18 "2016-06-08T17:10:46Z")
I had a dream like that once. When I awoke, it turned out I was the sphere. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/19 "2016-06-08T17:55:36Z")
You were shown a glimpse of the future. The other person was Donald Trump and he had conquered cancer through the sheer force of his will. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809/20 "2016-06-08T18:04:16Z")
Was this that Kopi Luwak coffee that was ran through an Asian palm civet? Cause that stuff is the shit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-just-throwing-this-out-there/756809.md?page=2)