Tag: #DrBillBrendle
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The Strange History of Everyday Objects: Windows
Why windows were once feared as openings without boundaries First published on Meduim Windows were never trusted. They look harmless now. Fixed panes of glass meant to admit light and keep weather out. We treat them as passive features, architectural conveniences that simply exist to be looked through. But for most of human history, windows…
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Why I Chose to Stay
On addiction, betrayal, and the quiet decision to keep living Sometimes I catch a glimpse of something, a look, a memory, a reflection in glass, and I’m reminded of how dark things once felt inside me. That darkness ran deep. It still echoes at times. With time, medication, and a complete change in how I…
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The Strange History of Everyday Objects
Thresholds First published on Medium Every home has one, and almost no one notices it. The threshold is crossed dozens of times a day. Shoes scrape over it. Groceries pass over it. Children step across it without thinking. It marks the shift from outside to inside so cleanly that it feels purely practical, almost invisible.…
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Friday the 13th: Why the Fear Refuses to Die
First published on Medium Friday the 13th doesn’t survive because it’s rare or mysterious. It survives because people expect something to go wrong when it arrives. That expectation has been reinforced for centuries through religion, myth, history, and repetition. Long before horror movies or internet memes, the number and the day were already carrying weight.…
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The Contamination Problem – Now Available
The Contamination Problem examines how hoaxes, hype, and institutional messaging distort the unexplained. Looking at crop circles, UFO reports, and Bigfoot encounters side by side, the book explores what happens when contamination becomes cumulative and reflex replaces evaluation. Available now as a free download. https://brendlewave.gumroad.com/l/fgtgir
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The Strange History of About Mirrors
Why Were Mirrors Once Feared? First published on Medium There are not many things in the modern house that seem as casual as a mirror. It sits silently in a bathroom. It stands by the door, patient. It lies against a bedroom wall catching some light with no words. We use it daily with little…
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Do Houses Remember us?
What it means when a place feels like it knows you First published on Medium Have you ever been in a house that felt different the moment you stepped inside? Not bad, exactly. Just… different. Most people can name at least one place that felt warm and familiar right away, the kind of space where…
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The Paranormal Side of Grief
On grief, perception, and moments that resist explanation First published on Medium Grief does strange things to the way we notice the world. People say it’s emotional, but it’s also very physical too. It changes how sound lands in a room. How silence stretches. How memories will suddenly intrude upon normal activity. After loss, the…
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When Poverty Pressed In
Life Inside the Aylesbury Estate Originally published on Medium. The Aylesbury Estate was never quiet. It was too big for that. Long concrete blocks stitched together by corridors that never seemed to end. Thousands of flats stacked on top of each other. You could walk for minutes inside the building without seeing daylight. People learned…
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We Never Have Enough Time
And Other Things We Tell Ourselves Previously published on Medium. I don’t believe time exists the way we think it does. Not as a force moving forward. Not as a river carrying us from past to future. What we call time feels more like a mental scaffold. Something we built to keep change from overwhelming…