Trippy Thoughts

Enigma_Nova · November 28, 2003, 18:54

I recently had a dream in which I was aware that I was dreaming, and had an argument with a character over whether or not I was dreaming.
I lost the argument, then woke up.

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I was pondering why I seem able to understand everything I know. Initially I did not understand why... so then I understood that my initial premise was false... but then I understood, so ...

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What's the point in asking philosophical questions?
Why do we spontaneously think to ourselves?
Is it possible to think about what you're thinking? (It creates a feedback loop)

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Anyone else have food for thought? I enjoy complicated philosophical stuff to think about.

Nubclear · November 28, 2003, 19:00

Look at yourself in the mirror and try to "feel" yourself. Begin treating the person in the mirror like a different person. Detach yourself.
Wonder what that person is thinking. What has happend to him. Then try to look inward within yourself and wonder about the true essence of your soul.
It's very strange

Q Classic · November 28, 2003, 19:09

i cannot explain why i know some things i know.

like, how i was patton in a previous life. and how before then i was caesar. and how the theme song that plays in the movie, you know, the one that goes didoodoodidoo doodoodoodoodoodoo didoodoodoodidoodoodoodoodoodoodoo....

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 19:15

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
i cannot explain why i know some things i know.

like, how i was patton in a previous life. and how before then i was caesar.

funny how few people were bus drivers or factory workers in their previous lives?

Q Classic · November 28, 2003, 19:19

i know you were thrown out of a helicopter in a past life. i'm pices, therefore psychic, so i know these things.

Enigma_Nova · November 28, 2003, 19:23

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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Look at yourself in the mirror and try to "feel" yourself. Begin treating the person in the mirror like a different person. Detach yourself.
Wonder what that person is thinking. What has happend to him. Then try to look inward within yourself and wonder about the true essence of your soul.
It's very strange

Hmmm very good.
But are you/I there? Is it thinking? Being? How can I be sure that this being is real, and not just percieved?
Moreover, does it have perceptions, or not? Are its perceptions real, percieved, or neither?
So it is I, then maybe my perceptions are not percieved... perhaps there are no perceptions, and no reality?
That is, it's not real, it's not an illusion - it simply is not...

So without anything - even concepts - what then?
Is it possible to think outside concepts? To Think outside the tools of thinking?

Very good Comrade - I can feel my thoughts detaching from existence, perception and the thoughts themselves.
Strange, I take it, but I'm used to strange by now.

jdd2007 · November 28, 2003, 19:25

Early today I was a little awake and having a dream involving either a dentist, or a sink, I'm not quite sure which. Either way, I spat out whatever was in my mouth. Somebody outside the door walked by, and the noise made me lift my head up a little. I had actually spat on my bed. Luckily it was all in a neat little puddle the size of the dime. I just took my blanket, and wiped the spit into my sheets. I turned over the other way and kept on sleeping.

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 19:27

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
i know you were thrown out of a helicopter in a past life. i'm pices, therefore psychic, so i know these things.

If you mean Pisces, then so am I, but unlike you I am not a semi-literate who believes in astrological mumbo-jumbo

Q Classic · November 28, 2003, 19:34

no, i mean pices.

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 19:35

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Originally posted by Q Cubed

no, i mean pices.

...go on then, I'll fall for it...whats pices?

Q Classic · November 28, 2003, 19:38

beats me. i was just being difficult.

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 19:41

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Originally posted by Q Cubed

beats me. i was just being difficult.

Nice one

I thought I'd made a right tw@t of myself by not knowing what a pices could do

Jon Shafer · November 28, 2003, 21:52

I have Trippy thoughts all the time.

JohnT · November 28, 2003, 22:13

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
i cannot explain why i know some things i know.

like, how i was patton in a previous life. and how before then i was caesar. and how the theme song that plays in the movie, you know, the one that goes didoodoodidoo doodoodoodoodoodoo didoodoodoodidoodoodoodoodoodoodoo....

"Twilight Zone" And it was a TV show long before it was a movie.

And how come nobody has past lives where they're nothing but boring, short-lived peasants.

"Yeah, I was first born in 1342... died 5 years later 'cause of the plague. Then I was re-incarnated as a German logger in 1496, but died when I was 22 due to some infection. In 1603 I was again re-incarnated in Sweden, where I was pressed into the service at the age of 12 and died a year later in some god-forsaken field in Germany, forgotten. A hundred years later I was born again, only to die in the great French famines of the early 18th century...."

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 22:25

JT, see post above

Shogun Gunner · November 28, 2003, 22:34

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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Look at yourself in the mirror and try to "feel" yourself. Begin treating the person in the mirror like a different person. Detach yourself.
Wonder what that person is thinking. What has happend to him. Then try to look inward within yourself and wonder about the true essence of your soul.
It's very strange

I've often wondered if mirrors were windows to parallel universes. There's another me, looking at his mirror, wondering the same thing I'm wondering...it's fate really...

JohnT · November 28, 2003, 22:46

Ahhh, that's what I get for ignoring the rest of the thread in my rush to post the repetitive.

reds4ever · November 28, 2003, 23:23

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Originally posted by JohnT
Ahhh, that's what I get for ignoring the rest of the thread in my rush to post the repetitive.

..but to be fair you did put a bit more effort into making the point than I did!

JohnT · November 28, 2003, 23:26

Oooh, style points! I'll take 'em!

JohnT · November 28, 2003, 23:27

Obviously in my scenario, the person is doomed to a bizarre sort of hell as he is always reincarnated as an European.

Immortal Wombat · November 28, 2003, 23:31

Bizarre hell as in the good kind. Of course.

Nubclear · November 28, 2003, 23:37

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Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Very good Comrade - I can feel my thoughts detaching from existence, perception and the thoughts themselves.
Strange, I take it, but I'm used to strange by now.

Now instead of detaching from existence...Embrace it! Think about you and your existence. No...Don't think about it. Feel it.
Literally feel existence surging within you. Try to sense it...Not by touch your feel, but just sense it.
I'm not quite sure how to describe it.

But try anyway