Odds and Ends

Lie to Me

I was watching “Lie to Me” last night (Monday’s episode) and I couldn’t help but notice that the actors were missing something. Did anyone else notice? It was driving me crazy.

Read moreIt was tension. When the gunman was on the scene, they managed to acted stressed within reason, but as soon as any of the actors did a scene that didn’t involve the gun, they were acting like it was a casual average day. Their tension notably dissipated! When the scenes would switch from Cal and the gunman to any other scene, I noticed it immediately. It kept taking me out of the moment. Repeatedly. Argh. I wanted to say something LOL.

Did you notice?

If any of us had a colleague who was being held at gunpoint, I can be confident we would be so incredibly nervous/fearful/afraid/tense until the hostage situation was over safely that we wouldn’t be able to contain it, but the actors seemed to keep forgetting that aspect when they were acting. There was absolutely no tension when there should have been.

Silly stuff, I know. I can’t help it!

The Dentist

I went to the dentist this week. I got bad news about my once show-stopping pearlies. I wasn’t happy. Cavities. Too many to mention after never having any until my mid-30s. Well anyway, I went to get them fixed and it was the first time I had Novocaine since my last visit. The last time I saw a different dentist and it was really scary! He really freaked me out. He didn’t have an assistant. He and I were alone in the office (outside of his secretary in another area) which was a bad sign, he was socially very awkward and “off”. My intuition was screaming at me to get up and run in the middle of filling. Yet, I ignored it. I was extremely afraid and I could not rationalize it so I sat there ignoring my intuition.

I felt trapped because I didn’t know how extricate myself out of there without upsetting him and I didn’t know where else I was going to go to get my teeth fixed. The stress caused me to stay. Later, after thinking about it all, I had an ah-ha moment. Never let fear or stress stop you from reacting to your intuition. It was stupid of me.

There was one point when he was working behind me where the flight response was strong and my heart was racing at an incredible rate that I almost bolted. I still wonder if he was thinking of doing something to me! I was a dead duck at that point–a perfect victim.

I wrote about it on my blog several years ago, and at that time people told me it might have been the result of the Novocaine, as it can cause a flight or fight reaction. I never had it before with Novocaine and on Monday, when I got three fillings, I didn’t get that response at all.

It just cemented for me that my intuition on this other dentist was right on the money. I will never let my fear stop me from reacting to that feeling again. I can still feel my skin crawl when I think back to that guy! You would know his name involved a variation of the world “cruel”! Freak me out! Thank god, I have a new, safe dentist.

Just random bits from my crazy brain 🙂