Q: What do you want for xmas little Jimmy? A: A trip to Brainland!!

For once, someone has taken the idea of “mapping the brain” literally.

Take a side picture of the brain and morph it into cartography.  Finally, finagle all the names to match and be all in-joke and cheeky. And litter the islands of New Zealand around it to throw everyone off scent.

Just think about it. It’s the best exercise in surreal escapism.

If we went on a sunny two week vacation to Brainland we could kayak in those neuro-anatomical furrows called sulcis (sulcus is the singular) that demarcate the separate lobes of the brain. We could go for a long hike along that ridge on the cerebral cortex called the gyrus. As for me? I’m dying to go on a sailing trip past Axon Turning Point, into Retinal Inlet and camp for a day and a night on Neuron Island, spending my day collecting shells and little vesicles of neurotransmitters before they’re released to the sea.

Stroke of genius courtesy of UNIT SEVEN. On their website you can download Brainland wallpaper for free. Or buy large super high-resolution printed copies of it to put on your wall to longingly gaze at.

(via NOTCOT)