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Ever look at your partner and feel weirded out? (pg. 4)
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by mmilo
Has anyone looked at traffic and wondered.... just where are all these different people going, and what are they doing? Alot of different stories just driving by.
So many lives, so many different experiences ... boring or not. |
I get that with planes all the time. I wonder where could people possibly be flying to or from, what they are doing and thinking, and do they realize that someone is on the ground looking up and wondering about them?
Or sometimes when I am on the train in the morning to get to class. I look around at all the other people and think how crazy it is that none of us know each other, none of us are going to the same place, and yet, for a short time of the day we all share the same experience.
It's pretty crazy how shut off we are from each other. On a train with hundreds of people, you could hear the sound of a pin drop. No one speaks to each other, and it's bad form to look at someone, especially in the eye.
Although I know that what I am doing is a step to make my life better, a step to help me pull away from the monotony of every day life, I sometimes feel sad that I am just another sheep running around in a robotic, and cold society. Another drone.
EDIT: I suppose I didn't answer the original question.
Sometimes I look at my boyfriend, or even look at what I am doing, where I am in life etc. and have a brief moment of disbelief. A moment where I feel like I am experiencing someone else's life. I look at my boyfriend and feel this shock that I am with him, that he and I actually got together despite all odds. I get these moments where it makes me want to ask "is this real?" |
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| Lomeli |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
What if life is all just one big trip. How do we know if we're all not just figments of some supreme being's imagination. What if God is an alien in a universe that dwarfs ours and he's tripping on shrooms the size of galaxies with his friends in his mom's basement?
What if? |
Dude, you need to read some Hindu philosophy. |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
I look at my boyfriend and feel this shock that I am with him, that he and I actually got together despite all odds. I get these moments where it makes me want to ask "is this real?" |
Believe me, it amazes the rest of us too. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Believe me, it amazes the rest of us too. |
LMFAO |
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Believe me, it amazes the rest of us too. |
LOL!!
You're a douche :p
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| aNYthing |
I occasionaly fantasise about ass-raping Jenny Pie. And then I shake it off and it all goes back to normal...
...I go back to fantasizing about ass-rapping Slylee.
Is that normal? :nervous: |
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| Taranis |
I went through a few months of fairly intense depersonalization and dissociation. It's something I used to always get sporadically, just random moments of weird thoughts and insights like you guys describe, but something set it off one time (ironically, it was just after I first quit drugs) and I spent 2 or 3 months in that state almost 24/7. Just constantly so zoned out and disconnected and 'wow none of this makes sense' that I was barely able to carry on a real conversation sometimes. Luckily I was off work due to illness anyway, but it messed with my head for a bit, I think the drug that probably most accurately reflects the experience would be nitrous, just that feeling like you've just snapped into or out of some weird dream, and everything is normal but absolutely none of it makes sense.
I eventually came out of it, but needless to say, I've stayed away from the drugs since :p The fun ones anyway. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
humans look so ing strange, man... |
indeed very strange. We eat, drink, and breathe through the same hole in the head, and so, despite Henry J. Heimlich's eponymous maneuver, choking is the fourth leading cause of "unintentional injury death" in the United States. How about drowning, the fifth leading cause? Water covers almost three-quarters of Earth's surface, yet we are land creatures—submerge your head for just a few minutes, and you die.
Or take our collection of useless body parts. What good is the pinky toenail? How about the appendix, which stops functioning after childhood and thereafter serves only as the source of appendicitis? Useful parts, too, can be problematic. I happen to like my knees, but nobody ever accused them of being well protected from bumps and bangs. These days, people with problem knees can get them surgically replaced. As for our pain-prone spine, it may be a while before someone finds a way to swap that out.
How about the silent killers? High blood pressure, colon cancer, and diabetes each cause tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. every year, but it's possible not to know you're afflicted until your coroner tells you so. Wouldn't it be nice if we had built-in biogauges to warn us of such dangers well in advance? Even cheap cars, after all, have engine gauges.
And what comedian designer configured the region between our legs—an entertainment complex built around a sewage system?
The eye is often held up as a marvel of biological engineering. To the astrophysicist, though, it's only a so-so detector. A better one would be much more sensitive to dark things in the sky and to all the invisible parts of the spectrum. How much more breathtaking sunsets would be if we could see ultraviolet and infrared. How useful it would be if, at a glance, we could see every source of microwaves in the environment, or know which radio station transmitters were active. How helpful it would be if we could spot police radar detectors at night.
Think how easy it would be to navigate an unfamiliar city if we, like birds, could always tell which way was north because of the magnetite in our heads. Think how much better off we'd be if we had gills as well as lungs, how much more productive if we had six arms instead of two. And if we had eight, we could safely drive a car while simultaneously talking on a cell phone, changing the radio station, applying makeup, sipping a drink, and scratching our left ear.
Stupid design could fuel a movement unto itself. It may not be nature's default, but it's ubiquitous. Yet people seem to enjoy thinking that our bodies, our minds, and even our universe represent pinnacles of form and reason. Maybe it's a good antidepressant to think so. But it's not science—not now, not in the past, not ever. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Ha! Sometimes I feel like that as well, that drinking makes me more "normal" for a brief time. Then I think to myself I'm probably just being arrogant, and plenty of other people probably get those "wow" moments a lot or are reflective in some way -- and lots of people are, as we can see from this thread. So maybe we "wow" people aren't so abnormal after all...
The trouble with taking the "third person" perspective too much is that you can start to develop a superiority complex.
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true but i am pretty much the last person who would ever have that sort of complex. i'm too humble/down-to-earth for that. i know we're all human and we all do dumb and have our moments. i pass judgment a lot but it's never permanent. i'm a firm believer in the saying "every moment has its own truth". |
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| lücid |
| sometimes i stare at myself in the mirror long enough that i start feeling foreign to myself... kind of like when you repeat the same word over and over so many times that it starts sounding silly. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by mmilo
Has anyone looked at traffic and wondered.... just where are all these different people going, and what are they doing? Alot of different stories just driving by.
So many lives, so many different experiences ... boring or not. |
i do that when i people watch on the street in nyc, union square, etc
also this definitely happens to me a lot. happened a lot more with my ex than with my current gf though
also happens a lot with words. sometimes i can look at a book and it appears like alien symbols that are completely unreadable. then i can blink and read it |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
true but i am pretty much the last person who would ever have that sort of complex. i'm too humble/down-to-earth for that. |
well, that's quite humble of you to say that. |
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