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Adrian Cronauer, the real live DJ portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" just passed, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634 (many other obits also available).
Keen to travel, Cronauer says he actually volunteered for a transfer to Vietnam, where he was hired initially as a news director for Armed Forces Radio there.
After his morning presenter left, he took up the 06:00 Dawn Buster show mantle, greeting troops with an enthusiastic yell of: "GOOOOOOOOD morning, Vietnam!"
Cronauer soon found out while interviewing troops that his ironic salute was often met with "the GI equivalent of: Get stuffed Cronauer" on bad days, he recounted at a veterans event in 2008.
"On one occasion, a guy picked up his M16 and blew away his radio," he told the Americans Veterans Centre conference.
Did any Soylentils hear him — live — in Vietnam?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:11AM
GP here. No idea if you'll get to read this, but here goes:
I'm quite acutely aware that there's a lot more to human perception than can be explained rationally with current models. Been diagnosed with schizophrenia after living with the symptoms slowly creeping in over years. It started with intuitions and feelings (of which enough turned out to be true to make me start trusting them) but progressed to full-time hallucinations and paranoia. I'm not saying that you might have that, you're probably too old (even though women usually get it later than men IIRC). But bear with me for a sec...
A psychiatric working theory for schizophrenia is that that it's a breakdown of the consciousness' filtering engine, pushing raw sensory input to the brain instead of the high-level "executive summary" the mind has the capacity to process. From my experience, I'd say this sounds about right.
I have a pretty good memory and I can remember my experiences in altered states of consciousness extremely well. Believe me, I've seen and heard (and done) some interesting shit :) It's not all just garbage input though and over some twenty years of living with this, on and off medications, I've learned to a) default to distrusting my perception and b) how to seperate signal from noise.
Turns out not everything that seems to be a hallucination is just a brainfart. There is some useful signal, things I *shouldn't* be able to perceive but that my mind puts together from the raw stream, not always in the right order but some second-guessing gets me there. It's all still grounded in the laws of phyics though. FWIW, my right hemisphere also turned out a lot stronger in cognitive tests.
Intuition and psychic-like perception in the present moment I can get behind. Predictions for next year as in your case I would not put off as complete horseshit, but not oracle-like powers either. There's too many variables at play and too much time in which conditions can change to even get in the ballpark, even if selection bias may tell you otherwise sometimes. Trust your intuition but don't fool yourself into making more of it than it is.
I've had some pretty bad times (I'm much better now) and my fair share of confrontation with death. I don't fear that any more either and for obvious reasons, I don't think you're the nuttier one of us :)
Still working on leaving the world a better place, lost some of my best years so I have some catch-up to do...