Different Shade of Normal Quotes

“I choose to view my illness in a shade of sapphire-blue with specks of the deepest, purest emeralds. My time is precious and beautiful. I might be crazy. I might be mad as a hatter, but I will enjoy this tea party for as long as time keeps me at the table.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

“William Blake wrote that when the doors of perception are cleansed mankind will see things as they truly are: infinite. It’s from that quote that the band led by Jim Morrison, one of my all-time favorites, derived its name.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

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― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

“Music isn’t there other than that it’s heard, and yet it paints some of the most beautiful and concrete images in the world. It is the immaterial made into the only matter which exists in such a state as to be both solid and yet thin as smoke at the same time. In that sense music is like time and time is like music. Music makes pictures using sounds and time in and of itself can paint in colors that only the mind sees and the heart feels. In the Wilderness of Lunacy I mentioned the color of time and broke it down. This is the same here. Time has its own colors and moods. Mornings are soft and bright in pinks, yellows, and oranges. The early hours stretch across the sky in darkening shades of blue with long white minutes sprinkled across them. When the hours reach noon, they have been stretched taut so that all things are all colors reflected in white light, so from eleven to three we live in perfect brightness. The hours darken their shades of blue throughout the day until darkness comes and cools everything in deep pinks and purples until the sky is so deep a shade of blue that it becomes all colors absorbed in the cold. Time is colored by the day but also by emotions. A melancholy day is gray no matter how the sky might appear just as a happy day can be bright and cheery in the midst of a violent rain storm. Mood alters time and therefore time is colored by a person’s emotional perception. Again, perception is the key to anything and everything. All you have to do to make the day a better one is to focus on and imagine the color of the time around you. If your day is going bad, time is gray and dark around you, think about the joy that has been and could be. Change the color of the time around you. It’s up to you what you do with your time.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

“Music isn’t there other than that it’s heard, and yet it paints some of the most beautiful and concrete images in the world. It is the immaterial made into the only matter which exists in such a state as to be both solid and yet thin as smoke at the same time. In that sense music is like time and time is like music. Music makes pictures using sounds and time in and of itself can paint in colors that only the mind sees and the heart feels.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

“Music contains life itself. It changes moods and carries emotions.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts

“Music paints images of anything using tones and pitches of sound. Well-written music is an auditory canvas of the most sublime painting in the world.”
― Jacob Glidewell, Different Shade of Normal: A Journal of Schizophrenic Thoughts