Because I’m going to be stuck in a car for another two hours, I’m going to take the time to write something about my brain:

One of the more unusual ways that I can create ideas is through daydreaming. I use the name Colubrine Sector to refer to my emotional brain portion, my process of daydreaming, or my general internal hardwiring. Although Colubrine sector has no major personified form, I often refer to it in a personified way, using either it/that or they/them pronouns. On my whiteboards, I depict Colubrine Sector as a magenta immortal (serpent) dragon with two backwards-pointing curved horns and two short stubby horns protruding from the jowls.

Colubrine Sector is this daydreaming process. Because it is daydreaming, it needs a still and quiet environment to operate. Although Colubrine Sector can use almost anything as input, emotional thoughts produce more vivid results. Colubrine Sector is reasonably easy to control as it makes its thoughts, but it is very hard to make it outright stop using something. Usually, the only way to make it stop using something is to give it something else to use. Being powered by my emotional brain portion, Colubrine Sector tends to stop working if I am under negative emotional pressure.

I really want to run Colubrine Sector right now, but I am in a moving vehicle with an operational radio.

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are you plural or just really creative

I don’t think that my creativity is unusually powerful. After some thinking, I don’t think I know what causes it. It’s probably just regular daydreaming that’s slightly more vivid in some cases.

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