The Human Dimmer Switch

Is anyone making this?

Here’s what would be great. A small lever, like on a stereo system, that instead of controlling treble, bass and loudness would simply turn up or down the overall energy level of the people in your house, including yourself.

There would be the option, like on a light switch to pull the lever ALL the way down. This would enable the user, like a puppet, to just collapse into a small (or big) heap on the floor and rest. We need that, no?

The ability to rest, full stop.

Not pause but OFF. Turn off the brain. And the twitching nerves. Turn off the treadmill of to do and the big-picture goals.

No need for pills or breakdowns or checking into a spa or insane asylum.

Obviously there’d have to be a timer attached.

But, fairly dreamy right?

And then imagine your timer goes off and you feel rested and restored, potentially even capable of tackling the rest of the day… until…. The kids start bickering like ungrateful little miscreants or misbehaving like hooligans on amphetamines.

No need to scream, Will you please shut your pieholes:) Or, If you do not stop throwing the football in the living room you are going to sleep in the garage for the rest of your natural life.

No one takes any of this seriously anymore anyway.

So, it would be helpful, instead of just becoming the psychopath mom three to twenty times a day, to have the power to alter my personal experience of their volume/ energy.

The experience would not change for them. So everybody could co-exist happily in they’re individual ecopods.

This would also take quite a bit of pressure off my not-yet-totally-off-the-ground mindful awareness practice.

Plus, there are unlimited uses for the Human Dimmer Switch outside the home.

Take restaurants for example. You could turn down the drunken bachelorette party two tables over.

And that weird couple, aggressively whispering with huge hand gestures at the table behind you? You could turn up their volume, so you wouldn’t have to eavesdrop so obnoxiously.

Public transportation is another completely untapped area.

Loud-talking, self-important businessmen on the train? Down. Women talking trash on the subway? Down. Babies crying on airplanes? Down. Carpooling co-worker babbling on incessantly about marital issues? Down.

And there’s more. Neighbor dog barking in the middle of the night? Down. Car alarm going off while you have coffee with an old friend? Down.

Voices in your hear saying you have f***ed up AGAIN? Down.