a_picture_of_my_mind_on_my_body Norm I drew a picture of my mind... I can't recall what drugs I was on when I did it. I got it tattooed on the right side of my back. It starts on my lower back goes up the larger upper part of my back and onto my right shoulder and then down to my arm to my right elbow. I also have a tattoo that's right in the middle on my back up on to my neck Ok, here goes. I'm going to try and describe it. I'll start at the bottom. On the lower part of my back there is a dark black sun with a blue eyeball inside, it represents my awareness, my intuition, that which sees what can't be seen. Behind and to the right of the sun in a black crescent moon hugging the side of the sun, that represents that which simply cannot be seen; not even with my minds eye, it represents that which is beyond imagination but is known to be truth. Below the sun and to the left are two overlapping blue tears with thick dark outlines which create something that looks like shadows, they represent my calm. To the right of my calm is my logic, it's hard to describe. It's like a bunch of curves and points which are attached to a sort of semi halo around the moon. Inside the combination of curves and a semi halo are a bunch of lines and shapes which make designs. My calm and my logic are two of the supporting features of my mind. They are like the glue. The rest would collapse without them. Going up my back, shooting away from the sun and the moon in a direction of up and to the left and then curving out to the right, is a bunch of lines that kind of look like the way frost forms in webs on a window in the winter, but more defined and black. They sort of go in all directions. Each line comes to a point and all the lines are kind of jagged. This represents inspiration the beginning of thought, new ideas, chaotic thought. My chaotic thoughts are outlined in red. Then above that at each point is another point just apart from them and these points are the beginnings of a new smoother curving lines. All of these lines curve out a little bit, as they go up, and then they curve in towards one another to form a larger solid black line. Before they form the solid black line the curved lines represent complete thoughts, the thoughts that come from inspirations. They represent the current state of my mind on a surface level. Like I'm thinking a hundred thousand things at once and I'm not even fully aware of each one. This larger black line where my thoughts become one. It's like a thick black line which, let's say undulates, gets thicker and smaller, thicker then smaller; you know? Then it consistently gets smaller as it goes up on to the top of my shoulder. Finally it's a thing black line which goes on top of my shoulder as a swirl. Not attached to that swirl but near it and sort of curling off of it and down my right arm along my tricep is another smaller swirl and than another even smaller one and then a whole bunch of little ones down on my elbow. Each swirl is a little more faded than the last. The swirls represent the things I've forgotten, things that have faded away in my mind but still exist there, disappearing into an infinite space. The faded swirls are sort of surrounded by like a mist of blue. Written along the top of the undulating black line on a thin red line as a background is "quod me nutrit me destruit." It's written in a small sort of cryptic madman looking writing. It means "what nourishes me also destroys me." Than above that is a red, sort of, abstract looking, harsh and jagged fire ball with crazy black designs in it, it represents my rage. And it's shooting up and to the right. Then catching that is an rubbery looking blue curvy line which represents my calm. The blue things represent what I call my omnipotent calm and the red represents my emotion. I also have some other: tattoos. 050610 ... Lemon_Soda Nice. I got some good mental imagry on that. 050610 ... crOwl how long did it take? 050610 ... Norm It was done in intervals over a period of like a month or something, though I'm not sure exactly. And I think combined hours was something like 40? I don't know, maybe more. For me, numbers are the things that quickly fade to the infinity. 050612 ... Norm It was mostly filling in the black, but logic took a long time same with the fireball. 050612 what's it to you? who go blather from