I am honored to be chosen for this activity. I was selected to write a Meme by Trauma Junkie at the blog Surviving RT School — Tales of a Trauma Junkie ( at http://my-rt-life.blogspot.com). I didn’t really know WHAT a meme was so I looked it up….
“A meme (pronounced /miːm/)[1] is any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, gestures, practices, fashions, habits, songs, and dances. Memes propagate themselves and can move through the cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus.
Richard Dawkins coined the word “meme” as a neologism in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) to describe how one might extend evolutionary principles to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious belief, clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches).[2]
Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (similar to Darwinian biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity’s reproductive success. Thus one can expect that some memes will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. “Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts.”[3]“
Another way to define a Meme: “Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we’d really like to be doing with our lives. They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes.” Richard Brodie.
After looking up exactly what a Meme was…I am inspired. So, here are the rules:
Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences. The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL!
I am currently in my office (aka computer room, study arena) which is currently a DISASTER because I am remodeling and I have books EVERYWHERE. Since I read a vast array of genres, the closet book at hand was: Spells: Spellcraft to bring magic to your life and reality to your desires.
Turning to page 56 I find: A Spell to Halt Nightmares –
Children are much more sensitive to psychic influences than the average adult, and nightmares, when suffered for a long period of time, may be a symptom of psychic attack. Regardless of the causes behind a child’s suffering continual nightmares there is a magical solution that may prove effective. You will need: a sheet of purple paper, a black marker , salt, water, and perfume, and a raw potato. Copy the following magical name on a sheet of paper, making a triangular shape ABRACADABRA. Place the design above the child’s bed being sure to explain what its intention is. Spray or sprinkle the room with the mixture of salt, water, and perfume. Each time you sprinkle the room recite the following: “Guidance and love of the universe, please protect my child from the night terrors that assault him. In your loving arms I commit my child to your protection when he is asleep. I do this in the name of love and faith.”
Well, I thought that was interesting. After my graveyard shift, I had a nightmare about a Telemetry interpretation gone wrong…hmmm…
I am not sure how to perpetuate this game since I am really new to blogging and not super sure how to link or express invites…so I am encouraging the next five people who visit my blog to please add a comment which includes their blog link, make a Meme so the evolution occurs….Blessings and Light!
