Today Becca and I went to the Schenectady Museum and Planetarium. Thomas Edison set up his factory in the Schenectady area, so much of the museum is about the history of Electricity and some fun kids stuff to go along with it. In the Planetarium we saw a show about astronomy and how it has contributed to our Christmas traditions.
After that we continued walking around the museum. There was a section on DNA, which was really quite basic and not too interesting to either of us. The last thing we did in the museum was to go back to a game that was in use when we went by the first time.
Set-up for the game included each of us putting on a head band which was connected to a computer. The head bands measured brain activity. The games were based on the amount of brain activity in each person. In the first game we played we were trying to stay calm, relaxed and produce as little brain activity as possible.....Becca won that game. Then we switched the rules and competed to have the most brain wave activity. So, while I had a hard time being relaxed, I didn't have much trouble putting my brain into overdrive and proceeded to win that one. All I had to do was take my overactive ADHD brain, turn off all controls, and go crazy. Admittedly I couldn't achieve anything in the form of functional activity in that state, but for the purpose of the game it worked out well.
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I am SO shocked that you won the ADHD overdrive brain competition. I imagine that in a group of hundreds of people you would still win :). How do you even sleep and turn off your brain?
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