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What does it mean when one dreams of accidentially creating a cousin, one that instantly grows to about 2 years old and knows you by name, from a stale breadstick?

Mmm, brainstorm

Making this list partly because I want to organize my thoughts, partly because I'm still in hot and heavy brainstorming mode and would like some input. Having taken leave of my senses, I've decided to try and do my medicinal plants course as an honors course. However, this means that I have to figure out a project to do. After talking with the prof and brainstorming on my own, here are the possibilities thus far:

--Do a study on what sort of herbs a local ethnic group uses for medicinal/cooking purposes. I'm thinking maybe Chinese--it'd give me an excuse to go to the local Asian market.
--Research a plant family and do a paper on said family.
--Along the same lines, focusing on the mint family, collect a conglomeration of various extracts/plants from several mint family plants and get several people to smell and possibly taste said extracts/plants. This thought came from Friday's class, wherein we got to examine orange mint, and during the process that not everyone smelled the same thing--for instance, I thought it smelled like basil.
--Research the sorts of plants used by a company/companies that put out organic/herbal bath and beauty products, and see what's the goodness in there. Maybe I could do something somehow related to aromatherapy?
--Research a family of medicinal plants, find out what chemical it is that makes them medicinal, and see why the plant makes it for itself.

Opinions? Furthermore, if anyone has any ideas/suggestions, or if there's a particular medicinal-planty thing that would be interesting for me to babble about for the next semester, feel free to suggest it. <3 <3 <3