Don't worry, I won't.... I'm a lot happier of a person than I used to be. Back then when I got really delusional like that I was depressed enough that it seemed like my thoughts made a lot of sense, but these days I can remind myself that I don't actually feel that way, and I have some friends I've made over the years who are always willing to drop what they're doing to talk to me if I get to that state, though I try not to burden them with it. And yeah, that sounds about right.
I let my thoughts go that way for a while, but it usually gets too far if I let it. I know that still makes it sound like I'm manipulating them, though. There's two really distinct aspects to it mainly, and the rest is kind of a gray area. I like to think of them as the side where I want to do everything and the side where I want to do nothing.
The everything side is the one where all I think about is different ways to get euphoria, drugs or sex and fetishes or strange things like fantasizing about death, that's the side where I feel like I'm trapped in my own mind. I feel literally insatiable in that state of mind, like if you handed me a hundred hits of acid I would stick them in my mouth without a second's hesitation and then I'd start complaining about how I didn't have more. That mindset is the one that makes me feel crazy and it usually ends up being that I think so much about massive euphoria that the fact that I'm not in it makes me really depressed and then my thoughts start spiraling downward really fast and I start feeling like I'm having sensory overload.
The nothing side is the one where I get really emotional and am just really content with everything in life, or at least neutral about everything (when I was still depressed in general). I don't want to do anything but lie in bed and never have to deal with the real world ever again, and nothing beyond that. I don't care about any type of pleasure-seeking experience, that alone would be enough for me, although when I've had crushes I think about them in this mindset. That's one of the biggest dividing factors between them. That may not sound like it amounts to much (and I'm probably not explaining it as well as I hope) but it amounts to a huge change in personality. The crazy one makes me feel really eccentric and wild, and the normal one just makes me feel really laid back and open.
I kinda flip back and forth between based on a lot of different stuff, but especially stuff like music. That's the main thing I used these days to help switch myself between them. Also, more than I'd like to admit, when I'm one way it becomes much harder to remember a lot of thought processes I had when I was the other way, and stuff like that. The everything side feels much more dissociative than the nothing side, though.
I've thought about that kind of thing through dreaming, too. Maybe not as much as you have, though. I guess it'd be better to just say that it's occurred to me before. It'd definitely be an interesting experiment, but I don't think I want to experiment with my mind that much anymore. (<-- If I say things like this, I'm in the nothing mode. ) I feel the same way, though. There have been a few times when I didn't think I was going to survive drug overdoses. People probably would think you were crazy if you told them that, though. I think it's a reasonable thought. Most people just don't think about their minds that way.
Thanks for the good vibes. And sorry for the super long post!
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