Day 4/31, "WO XI HUAN NI" 💙

jillianwu

4 years ago

Tumblr of Happiness 💗

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jillianwu

2 years ago

Almost every occurence in my dreams turns out a real event in my life. How come?

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jillianwu

2 years ago

“Accept how you feel but don’t let feelings rule you. You are in control. You are not their slave.”

— Unknown

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jillianwu

2 years ago

Best of Edgar Allan Poe 🤍💯

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we—

Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul”

Edgar Allan Poe

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“Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”

Edgar Allan Poe

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understanding

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“And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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“I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.”

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“I smiled—for what had I to fear?”

Edgar Allan Poe

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“It was a low, dull, quick sound – much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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“And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel – although he neither saw nor heard – to feel the presence of my head within the room.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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perceptions

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“A watch’s minute hand moves more quickly than did mine.”

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time

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“True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

Edgar Allan Poe

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″ Almighty God!—no, no! They heard!—they suspected!—they knew!—they were making a mockery of my horror!—this I thought, and this I think.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”

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“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?”

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

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“And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it – oh so gently!”

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“All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

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jillianwu

3 years ago

I wanna be found again.

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jillianwu

3 years ago

Weakening Memories of Crime through Deliberate Suppression

There are some bad memories — whether of a crime or a painful life event — that we’d rather not recall. New research shows that people can successfully inhibit some incriminating memories, reducing the memories’ impact on automatic behaviors and resulting in brain activity similar to that seen in “innocent” participants.

The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

“In real life, many individuals who take memory detection tests want to distort their results. Using a lab-based crime simulation, we examined whether people can indeed suppress guilty memories and avoid detection,” explains lead researcher Xiaoqing Hu of the University of Texas at Austin. “Our study indicates that suppression can be effective in certain ways, helping us to limit unwanted memories’ influence over our behavior.”

Hu conducted the study when he was a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University with colleagues Zara M. Bergström of the University of Kent and Galen V. Bodenhausen and J. Peter Rosenfeld of Northwestern University.

The researchers recruited 78 undergraduate students and randomly assigned them to one of three groups. Two of the groups, both “guilty” groups, were instructed to find and steal a particular object from a faculty member’s mailbox. The object was actually a ring, but the word “ring” was never mentioned in the instructions. This was to ensure that any evidence of ring-related memories would be the result of committing the actual crime and not from listening to the instructions.

A third group, the “innocent” group, was told to go to the same area and simply write their initials on a piece of poster board.

Some of the guilty students were then told that they shouldn’t allow memory of stealing the ring come to mind at all during the following concealed-information test (CIT) — that is, they were instructed to suppress the memory. The other guilty students and the innocent students were not given any suppression instructions.

The three groups completed a CIT, a brainwave-based test that can be used to evaluate whether an individual has specific knowledge suggesting involvement in a crime. On each trial, participants were presented with either the target item (e.g., the word “ring”) or one of six crime-irrelevant items (e.g., “bracelet,” “necklace,” “watch,” “cufflink,” “locket,” “wallet”) while their brain activity was recorded using EEG. The researchers were specifically interested in looking at the P300, a brainwave that indicates conscious recollection.

The students also completed an autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT) in which they had to indicate whether specific statements were true or false. Response times on the aIAT are thought to reflect the strength of a particular association — the faster the response, the more strongly held that association is, regardless of the person’s explicitly stated thoughts and feelings.

As expected, the researchers found that the guilty participants showed significantly larger P300 responses to the target than to the irrelevant stimuli — but only if they hadn’t been given instructions to suppress memories of the crime.

Those who suppressed crime-related memories showed no difference in P300 activity between the two types of stimuli, resulting in data that were indistinguishable from those of innocent participants.

In addition, suppressed-memory participants were also less likely than the other guilty participants to associate crime-related memories with the truth on the aIAT. However, the data suggested that guilty-suppressors could still be identified via another brainwave, known as the late posterior negativity.

Together, the findings suggest that memory suppression dampens neural activity associated with retrieving memories and also limits the influence of these memories on automatic behavioral responses.

The researchers are planning on exploring this memory suppression effect further, investigating whether it might be applied to other types of personally significant memories.

“For example, we can all recall times when we hurt others or behaved inappropriately and these memories can carry feelings of guilt and shame. Can we suppress these kinds of memories, and what are the consequences of such suppression?” says Hu.

While traumatic memories may seem like an obvious target for suppression, the researchers point out that these memories stem from emotional events involving strong physiological arousal and it’s unclear whether suppression would be effective in reducing their impact.

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jillianwu

3 years ago

I'm coming there to touch you and snuggle up

Our real time is different similarly by how opposite the regions both of us came from. His crack of dawn was when my feet wide apart in extreme sound sleep, no signs of awakeness, not of a hiss of breath neither unconscious groans

He said he witnesses both the sunrise and sundown.

He, then could no longer watch a film-like state of dreams in slumber.

The dark couldn't look after his weary eyes, as his light coloured iris (chroma) rejects radiating the same old glow in such hypnotic glare

If I take a look closer at his eyes, there's barely sadness, happiness, or bubbliness of some sort. The night was robbed off his sleep wires in brain. Completely vanished. A boy of nocturne hours, night that's silent yet insane

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jillianwu

4 years ago

大家好! 我很快乐. 💗

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jillianwu

3 years ago

Death and Decomposition: a handy guide for fellow crime (fic) writers

I decided to repurpose an old study guide I made for educational purposes because maybe some people will find this useful, or interesting at the very least! (Sorry about the American-English and Fahrenheit)

If the body is “limp”, how long has the person been dead? They will only be limp immediately after death (up to ~2 hrs) or very long after (nearly a day and a half). As for stiffness, complete rigidity doesn’t occur until ~12 hrs, and it doesn’t last very long before rigor reverses. Your characters can end up tearing muscles and breaking bones trying to force body parts in rigor to bend or move if they’re not careful enough because everything is very tense and rigid. Fingers will snap like twigs. Ever heard the expression “you’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands”? Yeah, it’s really not supposed to be easy.

Blood follows gravity! Livor is one of the first noticeable signs of death as in some cases it can begin as near as 30 minutes to 2 hours after death, before even rigor sets in. Has your body been moved before 6-8 hrs? The bruising likely won’t be uniform. Were they lying atop something? Objects can interrupt the bruising. Perhaps they were in a vehicle and the silhouette of a tire lever is visible. Clues! The color of the bruising can also help determine different types of poisoning.

Body temp can be tricky and unreliable at the best of times because there’s so many factors. I’ve been told it’s rarely used to exclusively determine TOD. The magic number is 3. Find three different ways to back up Time of Death. For example: if you’re using algor mortis, find two other indicators of time of death (livor, rigor, insect activity, scene markers). Most writers (myself included) avoid being specific about temperature because really, it can be hard. If you’re really keen on it though, I can show you a fairly simple way of calculating time of death based on temperature in average conditions. Just let me know.

The body is not going to look like a pristine preservation of a human being the whole time! They can’t just be pale and immobile. Other things happen. Was the body found in a river? A lake? It’s not going to be pretty. Adipocere is wild. There’s more to open eyes than just a hazy blue film. If it’s exposed to air and debris, you bet it’ll show. Tache noir can happen in ~7-8 hours. It looks vaguely terrifying if I’m honest. But hey, that’s life! Er, death, rather.

Basically, when you’re writing a crime scene and you want a model corpse with mobility and the fewest visible markers of decomposition, you only really have about 2 hours at most so plan your timeline accordingly if you’re counting on these things! Also, I know pallor mortis is a thing and I didn’t include it because it’s basically useless in determining TOD. Dead bodies get pale. That’s probably the one thing anyone knows. Anyway, happy writing!

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in the field! I’m still just a student. This is information accumulated over the course of my studies and has been reinforced by various sources, primarily my forensics teacher who spent years working in the field before moving to the classroom.

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jillianwu

3 years ago

I just leave this here-

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