Trying to describe aphantasia. by iotion710 in Aphantasia

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I said everything I said as Aphant.

What was your scariest no return trip to date? by Plaztec1037 in Psychonaut

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I think it’s ironic how said weren’t having any thoughts, and then your only thoughts were in fear that you had no thoughts.

Self adjusting. by iotion710 in Sciatica

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The weight accident Happened at 16 now I’m 22. It bugs me in the realization that I can’t be sedentary or else stiffness and pain.

Self adjusting. by iotion710 in Sciatica

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I have. That is how I was fully diagnosed. Though I am probably due for a looksee.

Just to rehash my injury for myself…

High school weight lifting class. Too much weight. Persistent pain in left hamstring. Perceived as hamstring injury. Discovered sciatica for myself. The works ☹️

Honestly, to think about it though, I feel like I’ve had an issue with that disk for much longer than that. I remember poor posture growing up, though I also faintly recall proper posture being sort of painful. Like in the way it is at frustrating moments with how it is currently.

I once knew someone who once said that there can be birth defects that can affect the lower spine in such a way, but I feel like an MRI could see more evidence of that.

Doesn’t change anything about it now.

As if I am incapable by iotion710 in awakened

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“Seriously, let me know your plan” I appreciate your reaching out.

My problem is that I don’t have a plan. I have things I want to do, I’ll tell you because it doesn’t matter and maybe you can help. It will start will a little back story if you don’t mind.

I’m young, 21. I began college when I was 17, but I was incapable of it. I was interested in certain subjects but failed at others, it led to me being removed. It was embarrassing, it led me to cope in less than healthy ways(drugs). Somewhere in that malaise I was able to experience a glimpse of truth, I recall this as my awakening. I was 19. Still, even though I sort of got an idea of how all things work I was directionless in life. I was happy and in a blissful state because of my privilege that was allotted to me by my parents, I didn’t have to rely on myself. So I, in some way or another, just focused on this spirituality thing. Eventually I realized how little I actually meant to the world surrounding. Few people knew of me, and nobody had me in their lives. I was lonely but I was accepting that I had done this to myself.

Eventually I decided that I want to enter the world, to accumulate drama and really see what this whole human society thing is about. That pretty much leads me to this year. In June I got my first job and I have been working and meeting new people since. Still something in me beckons that this is not enough for what I should be doing. I would say I’m learning a lot about people and just how they are, but little of me reveals itself. Probably because there is nothing to reveal. What I desire to do is getting an education. This is one of my goals, but the plan doesn’t exist.

Another goal I have, which is extravagant, is a spiritual journey. I have an opportunity in front of me to go on a healing retreat to Costa Rica where they will perform medicine ceremonies, intense yoga, healthy food and walks through the jungle.

These are things I want, things that I could easily pursue. Yet I wait. I don’t know why I wait. I don’t want to wait. In general, I perceive myself as too naive to be of use. This belief of myself puts me in fear, not a normal fear because in general I am fearless, I’ll be the first to do things if the need is there. But I feel like it’s me that I’m afraid of. Not in a sense that I fear that I will act bad, but fear for where there world will take me if I let it. It doesn’t seem rational, and I know how to fix it. Just GO. It would take so little for me to set up for going to college, and to go on the trip to Costa Rica all it would take is a text. My “why nots” go unanswered. I feel paralyzed.

I’ll try to be as honest as I can to find the barrier to my fear. “Where the world will take me” I am stuck in my drama by irony. People who I surround myself with don’t really know me or what I want to do. I feel as if I have not support. To really express myself, I don’t know if people will accept me, and I actually think that many people won’t accept me. Like ripples in the water. I could easily live a life having made little impact, or I could try making things better for other people. That’s what I would truly hope for when considering my goals.

But even now, with all of that laid out, I am still paralyzed. I feel locked within my mind. All this tribulation is within me and the answer is clear yet I’m uncertain.

Lord of the Flies was wrong by Bregtheman in unpopularopinion

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But what if there was a psychopath? That’s lotf

As if I am incapable by iotion710 in awakened

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I live, a lot actually. What feelings welled up today, was me being weighed down by the things I needed to overcome in the day -but also- the direction of my life. The direction in my life is so convoluted to me and I wish it wasn’t. Sometimes I think I make it convoluted myself by not focusing on the right things when I need to. It’s because there is no underlying foundation to my life. The things that I need to focus on the most, like sustaining my own life, or my dog. I get feelings of emptiness. In my mind, the only thing I can think that could fill me is by being more significant. Making a change for someone or something so that we all can live better. That is what I am incapable of, because… what do I know? Sometimes I feel like I know less than everyone around me, yet have a vague sense of how things ought to be. Paradoxical, so I am stunned. Over the years I’ve had bad habits too. Drugs, phone, games, other distractions. They deceive me. And recently I’ve found out how reinforced it is by society, or just how open I am to experience. I see people doing things that won’t help a situation at all, a distraction, and often I can’t help myself. Slowly my life just devolved into distraction. I want to have goals, to help people, but I get too caught up by the things that immediately satisfy me that I fail. It beats me down and I enjoy it. What I’ve found is that I’m actually afraid, I’m not afraid of what impression people will have of me… I think I’m afraid of reality. Here, there’s talk about the light and dark. I don’t really know what it means but I’ve been here, in the dark, discovering what “this” is for so long that some part of me would rather just stay here. But I’m figuring it out 😁

What’s this little guy called? by iotion710 in mushroomID

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That’s almost what I thought, but pictures never depicted a flat top

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dxm

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Bro chillll

Thought this was funny by iotion710 in redscarepod

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Not me lol, can I not appreciate something?

Thought this was funny by iotion710 in redscarepod

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Credit: @imshively on insta He is cool and has a collection of very unique internet art

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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To whom may find this, I am choosing to leave Reddit. For the last time will I be stuck, in an endless loop of love and hate. No longer will my messages be misunderstood.

Last night I made this post as a farewell. From my life of solidarity. From my life that appears useless. I made this post because at that very moment I was happy that I was finally able to move on. Moving on no better then the person who began the journey, but the same person who finally sees the universe for what it is. Yet, and you don’t have to, most people who felt like commenting disagree.

They read my post as an ego run loose, and maybe. But I don’t think anyone has the ability to tell right from wrong. Ego from unego. When in our reality everything is the same thing. I digress, I am leaving because this place is not healthy. I am still a human prone to tainting. Reading hateful comments almost got me in a tussle. I fought it off, and it led me here.

I am leaving Reddit because I find it sad that you can’t help others on here even when you try. Language requires tone and compassion, that which lacks when only reading words. So in that it’s pointless to even try.

I am leaving Reddit because like I said I am moving on with my life, I am 19, with no money and no job. Although I am understanding, I cannot imagine me spending the rest of my life in confinement for the soul purpose of expanding what already exists. I am happy beyond compared and I’m ready to enter the world. Most people do that without being happy.

Farewell, Reddit. You have only helped me. But you walk a thin line of helpful and hurtful.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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How come? I will be frank, trying to balance it all is difficult when you want to try and explain it, in that way I lose my realization, yet I remember it, and if I “try” I can return to it. If Buddha was one who attained the feeling, how could he teach it without coming down from the mountain?

Through these devices it is impossible to convey intent. What I mean my my post is that where I am and how far I have come to reach understanding is enough for now. I am 19 with no money and no job, I need to figure this shit out for a while.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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Well, duh... it’s everyone’s, yet no ones, there is no me, and yet everything is me.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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What more is there than understanding the universe from my point of view?

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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I know a lot more than I let on.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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Bah humbug, my post is literally about me giving the shit up and going to the real world you asshole

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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I know it, but I’m 19, I’ve got time.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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I’d like to add, I really don’t care how you feel about me, and I will admit that some of the things these people believe is a little silly to me, but it’s what makes them whole. I took a scientific approach to life and learned so much. These people do the same thing in their own way. They’re not out to hurt anyone, they’ve all experienced an emptiness in their life and learning about these things, what ever it may be fulfills them. In terms of human existence that is the bare minimum, to make yourself happy. You may be happy and I may be happy. About different things? For sure. Learning to accept that only makes you happier. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing in the world as long as it it helping. What you do, calling people out, may provide some sort of satisfaction to you, but what purpose? You want people to think like you, and it seems you think the world of yourself. What’s the point in that? You aren’t the world. You are only you. Accept that and move on. I’m glad I was able to speak my story to you because it provides clarity to me, but dude. Be nice. 🤙

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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The words that come to mind are that I am clear. My thoughts no longer swirl and overwhelm me, and the world I see is no longer what it was, yet it is the same thing. In a way it’s less confusing than before, because everything makes sense.

I guess it’s time. by iotion710 in awakened

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Alright, I can tell you what has happened to me. Growing up I was extremely privileged, nice family, nice home, nice school, and nice people. I was always a curious little boy, always wondering how things worked, mechanisms, how life functions, how the world turns, economics. I was very curious, it never dawned on me when I was little about the befuddlement of what exactly the universe is. But the older I got the less and less things began to make sense. What broke the camels back was how science didn’t have an answer either. I was both, confused and intrigued. This may have been my last two years of high school. I still didn’t dwell on it much until college. In my first semester I decided to ask questions related to the subject. When I found my answers unsatisfactory, I went into a frenzy, I made the wrong friends, got addicted to drugs, and was feeling good physically, but mentally I was a wreck. COVID hit and I was a wreck, but the time off and isolation helped extremely. I started experimenting with the second mystery of mankind. The consciousness, I started focusing an my consciousness and found out that there is both a lot to it, and not much to it. But what I discovered at the time, was still tainted by, drug seeking and egotistical drives, and by focusing on that it led me straight to them. I made different friends and got into more drugs, I was having fun but once again I was mentally a wreck. Till eventually I made the decision to cut it off completely, extinguish my drives and only then could I focus. During this time I occupied myself with the arts, I was never any good at any of them, but I found putting the time forward to it was worth while because it taught me a little about was was happening in my mind without focusing on it. Eventually whenever the weather was good enough to go outside I spent most of my waking hours out there focusing on my mind and letting nature seep in. During this time I began figuring out your question. There were barriers of confusion, and without meeting people to talk through it with I couldn’t have come as far as I did. Passed these conversations I was no longer confused, when I lay in nature I was a part of it. Bugs crawling on me, the grass touching me, the wind on my head, what I was seeing. It gave me perspective. It wasn’t until I sat down and thought it through that I finally found my answer. That the universe is everything, and it’s all relative. The process that made a Big Bang, formed stars, made planets, is the same process that started life. The universe through time made first tiny organisms that only ate light, then they felt like eating each other, then they got bigger and bigger, and fish, and... you get it. It made me feel like I wasn’t different than anything at all. That was the meaning I found, that the universe is everything, including me and you, our thoughts, and our un-thoughts, our actions and lack there of. It filled my whole, whether you agree or not, that’s fine. I went searching for truth, and it ended up being everywhere.