If you are reading this, welcome to the About Me! My name is Jake Peterson and this is my Personal Website project. I want to start off by simply mentioning; “Why SleepyIguana“? The whole hearted reason is; the theme I chose had an overall theme of Lime Green as its color! I wanted to be original however, and included my own pictures to the home page, gallery, and especially the About Me. I found that I had a recent picture from when I went to San Pedro, Belize of an Iguana sleeping upon a branch, and it had me thinking for the overall idea of this website. Then I started to consider the possibility of an analogy; what if I am the Iguana sleeping upon the branch? Iguanas are known as viscous creatures if threatened, and if you have ever been to Florida, you know that you can actually be paid for hunting down and exterminating some of the iguanas; that is because they are an invasive species. Even though they are hunted down, they still persevere and continue to exist in extreme populations in Florida.
With that said, I am currently a 21 year old UNR student who is graduating in May 2027 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychological Sciences, hoping to continue the semester afterwards as a graduate student to obtain my masters in Research. I would say I am skilled in research, but I would also say that I am quite inexperienced compared to modern day researchers which is why I fence-sit on the idea. As of now, I want to do Research in my future, mainly on the effects of psychedelics on the human brain. Since they have been so scrutinized over the years, there has been little research on any possible benefits to psychedelics; after hearing first hand comments on peoples’ experience on psychedelics, as well as the growing field of psyche-therapy (psyche* as in psychedelics) it makes me realize that these substances are mostly natural, and can replace the slow-paced medication that we have today. This can be beneficial over the long run, since psychedelics with therapy is a short term solution meant for long-term results; medications of today require individuals to be supervised, consume medication, or whatever else it may be for YEARS, usually until the patients end-of-life.
Recently, I have been doing activities that I really only did when I was younger when my family went on vacations, such as snowboarding and fishing. Funny story about the fishing trip, I didn’t do a whole lot of fishing as I did chumming (if you know what I mean). But there are many things that I have started doing again, including:
- Cooking
- Snowboarding
- Working out
Above all, I have been going through life for the past 5 years with my beautiful girlfriend. She has taught me a lot, including that I absolutely adore cats, and cannot wait until I get my own kitty when I am older. All I aspire to do as I grow up is to live life to the fullest, and my biggest dream is to raise my children in as comfortable as an environment as I grew up in, I don’t want fame or that much money, just enough to live comfortably.
To not bore you to death, please explore the rest of the website at your leisure, and feel free to respond to my blog as well!