My Brain is Ridiculous

Before I fall asleep, I usually spend between 1-2 hours thinking random thoughts about my day, and wherever my brain takes me. I find that laying in darkness and silence frees your mind to take you wherever you want to go. A study by the National Science foundation a few years ago stated that the average person has about 12,000 to 50,000 independant thoughts per day. That's around 2083 thoughts per hour if you're thinking very randomly, which I do on a regular basis. Here's some insight into the kind of things I think about.

Some people are very good at cutting and styling hair, and some are not. What about cavemen? They probably cut their hair with sharpened rocks. What I want to know is, were some of them better at it than others? I'm guessing probably 9/10ths of them walked around with shoddy, haggard hair. But what about the other 1/10th? Were there cavemen walking around with afros, pompadours, bangs that framed their faces, or perhaps a flock of seagulls haircut?

I wonder how humans ever came to understand or create music. It's such an abstract thing to have just popped up, not only in a species, but in a society. No other animal on the face of the earth even comes close to creating something like music. Cats can't play the drums. I've never seen a pig thrash a wicked guitar solo, or a horse woo a crowd with a passionate piano recital. Even our closest "relatives", apes, have absolutely no sense of rhythm. Where the hell did it come from? For that matter, where did all forms of creativity come from? We are the only species that creates illustrations, the only culture that has a written language. It's crazy shit.

Why is the color pink associated with girls, and the color blue associated with boys? I don't see any generic or evolutionary reason for that to be used. In fact, until the 1940's, pink was considered a "masculine" color, and blue was a "softer, more feminine" color. Then, one day, everyone just decided to switch it up. I think it's interesting that we as humans would even associate a color with a gender, as if it has any significance whatsoever.

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