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WhatIsReality wrote:Hey, I'm sorry for the pain that this is causing you.
I have this happen to me a lot. It was particularly frequent during my psychotic episode a few months ago, during that time everyone could read my thoughts, but I couldn't read theirs which leads to feelings of inferiority. It made me feel like an outdated person model that hadn't learned how to read thoughts yet.
I remember feeling tortured by those that were reading my thoughts since I consider my thought life private. They would point out all the flaws that I have, or think I have. I remember thinking at first that they were just trying to torture me because they were sadistic. Then I had another thought, perhaps their intentions weren't bad. Perhaps the torture was a process that led to some good. The fact is I don't know what happened.
Whether this is real or not I do not know, but I do know that torture is real painful, whether its our minds playing tricks, or us touching on something that science can't explain yet.
In order to function somewhat normally in life, I have had to tell myself that it is impossible for someone to read my thoughts. At least that's the mindset I have to hold when I go out into a social situation, otherwise I emotionally spiral out of control.
I like to put my experience in a more true and less painful perspective.
It goes kinda like this:
Society labels what I experienced as "crazy" or insane mumbojumbo that happened for no reason. Society enjoys pointing its finger and me and saying "well he just cracked, what he experienced isn't real, we've never experienced that, this person must have a disease of the mind!" without really explaining cause.
Just because a phenomenon wasn't shared, doesn't mean that it isn't real. Because that's what it comes down to doesn't it? What's real, what's not real? Am I going insane?
Socially speaking being labelled crazy is bad. You will be an outsider, one who is outside of the main stream of what is generally accepted as reality. There is a pack mentality out there, and I can only guess that it makes others feel threatened when there is an unknown process going on inside my noggin, or yours, or any number of people that have experienced this. (If the process of thinking actually happens in the brain. There is the mind-body problem)
But anyways back to coping, and putting things in perspective to help me feel less tortured socially.
I like to find the absurdity in the beliefs of others, and the hypocrisy that it creates.
Take the common belief in a God.
92% of Americans believe in a god, or universal spirit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/23/ST2008062300818.html
How strange, wouldn't you say? I was a Christian once. I rejected it, since I decided I couldn't believe in something I couldn't touch with my senses (faith). I took up science. I had a psychotic break from reality, that allowed me to see things I have never seen, and that others couldn't see.
So I touched something. I don't know what it was, but I am all of a sudden reminded of doubting Thomas.
Anyways, these people believe in something they can't see or explain properly. Important BTW here: I think that current Christian ideas of God are naive(along with other religions). But they may be hitting on a solid point, that point being that there is indeed something else going on that can't be explained properly. Yet.
Right. Back to coping. Ideas become outdated. Perhaps I'm upgrading my ideas, while others in Society decide to main stream on ideas. Perhaps I'm wrong. I don't know, but the point is I and you, and many others have a unique perspective to question reality from. I like to see my psychotic break as an alternate reality with which I can compare mainstream reality.
It's plato's cave. Its like having had to watch the shadows for 20 of my years, then being freed to go outside and take a glimpse outside the cave, and then going back into the cave and having your fellow cave dwellers state that there is nothing outside of the cave, and even though you did see something outside of the cave, it wasn't as real as the shadows in the cave.
So there it is. I like to think of myself as having looked outside of the cave. And I think anyone in Society (friends family strangers) who hasn't gone outside of the cave but claim all the same that there isn't an outside world, only the world inside the cave, then they are the ones who are ignorant. Even though I may not know what it is, I have seen something, heard something, felt something.
And then the problem is I still live in that same cave. Problems arise because there is a disparity between main stream cave dweller belief that reality is the shadows dancing on the wall, and my belief that there is a world outside the cave.
I've gone on too long, but the point is your in pain, obviously, as am I. And I have lessened that pain by trying to put other's perspectives in the proper perspective given what I have experienced. And taking into account if others, have, or have not experienced anything similar is relevant in deciding whether or not you or I should take their opinion on the matter.
It's also nice to know that you are out there along with a host of others with the same experiences.
I enjoy thinking of the similarities between believing in a god (which 92% of people do) and being termed crazy. We have all these people in society who claim to hear from an all knowing being called God. These same people point at people who are hearing voices and call them nuts. Its pure hypocrisy.
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