I'm going through some pretty strong existential thinking lately. It's hard to say what it is exactly. The feeling might have something to do with finding a direction to go socially. I have some pretty close and wonderful friends. But I want to expand this. I want to make some new friends that can show me different aspects of the world, both intellectually and physically if that makes any sense. Sometimes, newness helps break out of any possible monotony. It can even help break out of monotony you didn't know you had. Maybe you do as well. So we can break up that monotony by talking to each other. Becoming friends. Potentially meeting each other in person, to really push each other to grow. Even if you don't think you have room to grow!

I am a recent graduate in experimental psychology. My research keeps me busy, and I'm really passionate about it. Memory and imagination are my main topics of interest. Most of all, I'm curious about creativity. Not just artistic creativity. I also mean creativity to create new ideas, to create new trajectories in life. Memory and imagination are very important to that. It's not some nuanced and highly academic theory; how we imagine ourselves and what we remember about events in our life affects what we create about ourselves. I'm also a science fiction writer on the side, I wrote a book even and self-published it. Mostly I write about consciousness, virtual reality, and alternate states of consciousness. A lot of it takes place in the near future. Much of my inspiration comes from cyberpunk or Robert Heinlein. On top of all this, I'm very passionate about philosophy. It matters to you as it does to me, I'm a huge fan of Aristotle.

Besides that, I'm really big into cooking lately and I try a lot of things. It's a way to break my monotony at least when I'm alone. I can have a different experience this way. But there aren't many people to share this with. Music is nice, I have my favorites, but I want to exchange music with someone to discover things I haven't tried. For example, I never really listened to grunge, but I've listened to some of it in the past few days. There are other genres I would explore, except I don't really know what to ask for about them (hip hop, early 20th century composers, Chinese pop music, for a few examples of stuff I don't know much about).

I'm hoping to find someone interesting! I don't need a list of your interests, your favorite movies, your favorite music. We'd probably end up throwing in that information in our conversations. I want to know something deeper and not monotonous about you. What about yourself is it that you want to express more? I'd love to hear about it, and I'd show the same.