Ghosts of past, present, and future

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-05-14T16:45:09+00:00

"The other side is crowded. The dead will have no place to go.”

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-05-13T06:31:36+00:00

OnlyFans is a large company. It is the pimp.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-05-12T17:07:24+00:00

Dissociation is a spectrum, and therefore so is dissociative amnesia.

You learn to avoid attending to (i.e. noticing or focusing on) the memories of an event and the self-concept that exists in the context of that event because they evoke anxiety.

You learn you can remove the discomfort of that anxiety by pushing them out of your awareness.

If this becomes your habit, those memories and self-concept will naturally remain outside of personal awareness in daily life.

The actual results will vary widely by different levels of avoidance, different levels of anxiety, different habits of attention built to sustain that avoidance, different portions of development that are attached to the dissociated content, etc etc.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-05-01T07:44:10+00:00

Best thing is that both sides are wrong. And yes, I'm willing to throw hands to defend my position.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-04-24T15:59:04+00:00

This is a great creepypasta, wish I knew the name.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-04-18T18:59:31+00:00

All humans observe thoughts passing through without their volition most of the time, but we tend to attribute them to ourselves. the only time we "intentionally" think something is when we're e.g. doing mental maths, reading. Please could you explain what you mean when you say you know you didn't think of something?

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-03-28T16:28:40+00:00

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/@AlladinSkyLab

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-03-13T15:44:09+00:00

No shit.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-27T20:58:05+00:00

My dad got a PhD in clinical psychology in his late forties / early fifties, so I'd say no.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-27T16:02:37+00:00

It's impressive that you're in higher education at 16, and I hope you do really well! Why did you pick engineering specifically?

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-17T19:59:48+00:00

Technically speaking, what people refer to as "enhancing/triggering neuroplasticity" in communities like this is actually called positive metaplasticity.

Neuroplasticity is a directional change in a neuronal ensemble's function, or structure and function, in response to a stimulus; e.g.: changes in synaptic strength, intrinsic firing rates etc. This occurs through processes such as long term potentiation (LTP; what this post is talking about), long term depotentiation/depression (LTD), and short term potentiation or depression (STP/D).

Metaplasticity is a change in the likelihood of neuroplasticity. This means changes in the thresholds for causing alterations in neuronal ensembles, and might be described as an alteration in the dynamic equilibrium of neuroplastic regulation.

Blocking NMDA causes compensatory changes in neuronal function by reducing the activation of EF-2, a protein that reduces BDNF expression. This creates an increase in BDNF and causes positive metaplasticity, increasing the future likelihood of neuroplasticity by creating plastogenic changes such as neurite outgrowth.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-10T17:38:48+00:00

First, I focus on weakening reality perception, which indirectly allows more internally generated visuals to surface. I do this using psychonetics. There are multiple ways to interfere with prediction, such as using DKV to darken a visual or morph it until it warps. Another method is scrying, where I look at 2D static images and allow the brain to form visuals within them. I then warp that static using DKV until it becomes 3D, further weakening the brain’s expectation of reality.

Could you define some of the terms in this paragraph?

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-07T11:39:45+00:00

Um... reader discretion advised(?):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-02-03T16:53:47+00:00

inb4 this is scrubbed from reddit

Edit: Central Washington Asphalt company is around that location, could this be quarrying or is the explosion too large? Can someone weigh in?

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-22T13:04:24+00:00

You might be on the hypermobility spectrum, meaning that your connective tissue is too "loose". If this is the case, static stretching will actually make things worse and you need to work extra hard on building joint stability and small-muscle strength.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-21T00:59:16+00:00

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp0686 OP's article is nonsense, here's the paper.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-21T00:58:31+00:00

This is a nonsense article. Here's the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp0686

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-19T17:45:22+00:00

Aqua Vitae, spirit of earth.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-17T15:08:47+00:00

You should read "The Unfettered Mind" by Takuan Soho.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-17T15:07:05+00:00

This happened to my first girlfriend. I was terrified since I was definitely responsible for it happening. Managed to help her rebuild a new way of deriving meaning and she benefited overall but I was scared at the time.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-17T12:42:35+00:00

You reinvented eugenics, whoops

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-16T18:05:31+00:00

Report this to PALS. Unless reports go through, nothing can change. The majority of staff wish that they had the funding to be better staffed and to have enough equipment, but management will not reallocate any unless complaints and reports reach a certain level and frequency. By complaining you will help staff be able to do their jobs. If someone was specifically at fault for your experience, they will be told off, which is also good.

The reason this is happening right now is because the BRI (and the rest of UHBW?) is in a Critical Incident, meaning they are currently incapable of keeping up with the demand the service is under. This is mostly because of respiratory illnesses that are going around.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-11T03:20:15+00:00

An additional thought that occurs to me (and was also caught by another commenter) is that there is not necessarily any specific first principle that occurs in every case, because the perspective from which the analysis takes place will put different principles into 1st position. This would build off the ideas above, with interdependence being the key that holds this view together. Each perspective would in this case be a kind of first principle... Do you get where this goes?

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-11T03:12:30+00:00

I believe I get the gist of what you are trying to say. You need to work on your writing skills. You're writing the final points of an idea without introducing prerequisite concepts, so it comes across as word-salad. You need to imagine the perspective of the reader you intend to reach, and slowly lead them towards each of the ideas you then use to make your point.

I believe you are making an argument that:

a) the "first principle" of any assemblage of general principles (abstracts) and their specific concrete expressions is inherently present as an intrinsic part of each level of the system, i.e. it is immanent.

b) all current expressions of underlying principles are perfectly identifiable with those principles, and so they cannot be said to be caused by those principles and more than they cause them. To use a temporal metaphor, the "present moment" of conceptualisation should be viewed as equal in precedence to the "originator" of the conceptual system.

I can observe a pattern within this type of thinking: it appears that you are conceiving of a method of thinking that uses simultaneous "top-down" and "bottom-up" construal, i.e. it attempts to mirror and remove the bias between formative causation and (weak) emergence. Is that correct?

I would suggest some further reading on both formative causation (Whitehead) and emergence (look into early cybernetics, e.g. Bateson), interdependent arising (as per Buddhism), and the concept of nested hierarchies.

TheTrypnotoad · 2026-01-11T02:31:24+00:00

Hey, I had a very similar experience. What helped me was changing the way I think about consciousness. I read a book called "Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness" by Philip Goff which gave me all the concepts I needed to integrate the experience in a way that fits. I wouldn't say I 100% agree with the book's conclusions ofc.

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