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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we're going to begin a series of episodes on the theme of being upside down. And if you are wondering, yes, this is another baby looked at me episode idea. I started thinking about this because of my three-year-old's fondness for dangling upside down. She really likes to ask us to hang her upside down and then to be brought face to face with other family members while she's hanging upside down.

So like when she sees them, I guess, I don't know exactly what's so funny about it, but she descends into, like, cackling madness. And it's kind of like, can you believe this? This is absurd. No, no, this is totally understandable. And, you know, even as an adult, there'll be times where, I don't know,

I'll be in the right position. Maybe I'll be, you know, reclined on the floor for a yoga class or something or just in my living room. And you'll imagine the ceiling as the floor and what it would

be like to be up there. Or an even more terrifying one is if you find yourself out either on a clear

starry night or even a really clear blue day. And imagine yourself detached from the gravity

of the planet and ascending upward, falling upward, that sort of thing. You know, it can,

the wildness of the concept,

once you sort of like break through your everyday mundane blocks to it, can still be almost

overwhelming. I feel like you've mentioned the falling upward into the sky daydream before.

This is a common thing for you? Yeah, I mean, it's not, I wouldn't say it's like a central

anxiety point or a, or even like a recurring dream so much, but I don't know, there is something

about like a really clear day, especially a really clear like blue sky day and sometimes a very

clear star-filled night that kind of taps into

this notion it's kind of like if you stop and try to remind yourself to breathe which to be clear

it can also be a very grounding and beneficial uh practice but you know sometimes you're like

oh i'm breathing now and then you can kind of like sort of freak out about making sure that you're breathing, you know, taking something that is just a basic background process of your life and turning it down his head.

Yeah.

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