#categorizing

I dunno how to categorize things well. Also I haven't combed through all the posts in my inventory so tagging may be inconsistent and things might not appear. I aim to fix this but I'm sleeepy.

Proposal (this is not a ranking system):

0. Dreamless - didn't dream; I take meds not to dream; anesthetic uncosciousness

1. Forgotten Dream - can't remember dreaming; can't remember the dream

2. Fever Dream - hallucinations induced by substances or illness; other altered states; often restless sleep

3. Dream - the brain activity happened in sleep [REM]; neutral dream / just a dream

4. Comfortable Dream - pleasant dreaming; dreams that feel good without altering perception of reality [usually]

5. Uncomfortable Dream - unpleasant dreaming; not a nightmare, but not an experience dreamer feels good about

6. Lucid Dream - aware of dreaming; dreamer knows (while dreaming) that they're dreaming

7. Nightmare - a significantly uncomfortable dreaming experience; possibly panic-inducing

8. Wonder Dream - a dreaming experience that feels like magic and/or adventure; these are the most interesting dreams to psychoanalysts (all dreams are, but these ones might feel prophetic or storytelling)

9. Night Terror - sleep paralysis; visceral discomforts, pain, intensity; difficulty waking or moving out of a dreaming/sleeping state; triggers fight, flight, and/or other survival state

I scan each artwork I have created throughout my lifetime (and still own or have found in my apartment).

As it is more than (approximately) ~1500 pieces, I chose to print the most important ones (which is like up to ~70% of all drawings).

Then I laminate them.

On the backside I stick labels on the backside of each card - one with the date of creation (year is written with fat pen, then (with thin pen) month and perhaps even the day (if I still know through obscure puzzling togther of random facts and memories.)) and other labels, such as:

- title

- project name

- where I created it

- (accompanied/correlated (formative) life events)

- random associations/memories/facts that pop in my mind when seeing the pic, etc... or

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Then I archive them in boxes.

In the first box I sort them according to their category of projects.

For that box I had to improve a bit, as, originally, the box was too small if you want to close it with photos in it. As I have two of these I exchanged the top of Box A with the bottom of Box B. This way, 10x15cm large photos fit well in that box.

That's the resulting box:

(I put the two top parts together, because why not?:

)

In the second, larger box, I store the pictures sorted after year of creation.

(Also "box-ception":)

Do Not Wait

Ground

Ice Cold pool 

Just Like a Movie

Pictures of Girls

Pulling Leaves Off Trees

Sidelines

Trust Fall 

Underneath the Streetlights

What You Like

Worlds Apart

Am I the only person who feels irrationally irked by seeing SKAM fics tagged SKAM (Norway)? It’s the original and the source of all the remakes, shouldn’t it just be SKAM?

I think you’ve got your concepts all mixed up. I don’t think you have understood the meaning of stereotyping (which I have already explained) if you are now trying to conflate it with categorizing and once again making the same illogical jump from facts to values. We use different words for different things because their meanings differ. 

“Categorizing” is a neutral activity because it is done using only factual information, thus, there are no value judgments made about whether some categories are good, bad, or better than others, unless you take the extra step to provide moral reasoning and justification for such judgments. Cognitively, categorizing is helpful because it allows us to conceptualize information and make sense of the world more efficiently. You can categorize white and black people as being physically different from each other yet refrain from stereotyping them - categorizing and stereotyping are not the same thing. 

If you think positive stereotypes are good, then look up the “model minority” problem as a counter-example. Perhaps you haven’t yet experienced what it’s like to be seriously confined and restricted by the stereotypes that people/society force onto you?

When you use poor/lazy reasoning to treat a person as a mere abstract concept, you run the risk of doing harm because you are more likely to deny their full humanity and interfere with their freedom for authentic self-expression. I don’t think it’s hard to treat people as individuals and to honor whatever social identifiers they want to acknowledge for themselves. If someone chooses to celebrate their English Humor or take pride in their French Cuisine, I will gladly join them.