Excessively seeing figures and making things of static objects, only intermittent, does it make me a hallucinatory person?

[Invoker]

Mind you, I'm very logical and try to approach things without a bias. I work with 3 to 15 hours of sleep. I have stress like any other human. I am not a believer of anything but I don't disregard everything, which is why I'm agnostic. Give me your thoughts on why I may see strange figures (bipedal and quadrapedal) in succession, then it stops for a few days.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

We all do. We do it for several reasons ranging from boredom to fear. We may look at the clouds and see an angel because subconsciously we determine what we're looking at through what shapes we see, or what patterns. Something in a cloud might have the essence of a particular pattern you associate with eyes and noses or whatever. Perhaps your imagination is running wild because it's dark and you're trying to draw out the room using what little evidence you have.

My best guess considering what you want to hear as an answer--- variance. People are gonna have successions, dry spells, and you particularly happen to be someone who has gotten a lot of successions and dry spells with very little mixed.

My best guess disregarding what you want to hear-- perception. Although these associations happen randomly, you only notice the successions, and to a lesser degree the dry spells, but rarely take note of the evenly distributed. Or it's all happened recently, with insufficient data for an accurate long run average.

[Invoker]

Haha, analytical, I like it. But drowning in assumptions because I have not provided enough information to work with really. For a generalization, I'm glad I got the answer either way. That I'm not the only one a bit crazy. I thought I was the only one who sometimes posted truly helpful opinions and from multiple points.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Inference on this site is extremely difficult... your QA will rarely give you accurate info, so I try to deduct their point of view, then figure out what bias lead them to asking the question. E. g. QA: this guy stares at me a lot, does this mean he likes me? Me: All I know is you like this guy.

I try my best given the data, but of course, if you're an intellectual on here, you can't expect many accurate answers-- because no one is going to have nearly as much unbiased detail as the question asker.

For all I know, you could've left out the fact that you eat shrooms off and on in succession.

I must say, I certainly appreciate a more intelligent conversation than what is typically found on here. It's nice to remember every now and then that I have a brain.

[Invoker]

Most definitely, critical thinking and problem solving is hard to implement in a society where being socially acceptable is the goal. Imagine trying to hold a conversation with the average person, it wouldn't work. Everyone's out for someone else and there's something lost in themselves, something thrown away and taken for granted. If people asked more questions after they answered them in their own mind, I'm sure there'd be much more depthful questions. I Fucking hate these questions about race, gender, religion, etc. *venting*

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Oh, I feel your pain. I'm currently trying to beat knowledge into this woman's brain on "Set Point Theory" on here. But I can't even-- It's as if, reading an article with the word Doctor in it, means everything a GaGer read was true. Why ask if "Set Point Theory" is true if when I prove it isn't- like undeniably prove it isn't- you're still gonna egotistically defend the stance? As if the basis of being the more intelligent debater is the inability to learn from opposing views or that you HAVE to respond and say they're wrong even if you have no idea how to disprove their points.

But on a larger scale then this site, so much is drowned out by social acceptance. Obesity as an epidemic has grown far beyond its mean, because speaking ill of fat people is taboo. Poor education in largely black neighborhoods is drowned out by cries of racial inequality in job applications and white on black crimes. Just stupid things that prevent real issues from being addressed.

[Invoker]

Dude are you my man? Asking a question or making a statement leads to criticism, simple as that. People need to learn to take it constructively and accept it. Or further QUESTION it to get a better understanding and perspective. Like I don't hate fat people or stereotypes about minorities or blacks slumming ghettos, because in certain regions it's just a statistical Norm. If you want to fix something you need to question, understand, accept, and fix it. People get offended by the truth just because it objects their glorified perception of social standards. I've got to ask, what's your thoughts on religion or the lack of It? Give me a general term that wraps it up, don't need details, yet hah.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

"The effects we acknowledge naturally, do include a power of their producing, before they were produced; and that power presupposeth something existent that hath such power; and the thing so existing with power to produce, if it were not eternal, must needs have been produced by somewhat before it, and that again by something else before that, till we come to an eternal, that is to say, the first power of all powers and first cause of all causes; and this is it which all men conceive by the name of God, implying eternity, incomprehensibility, and omnipotence." --Thomas Hobbes

With the exclusion of omnipotence, I find deism is probably the most accurate description.. although I tend to just call myself a non-religious theist as I feel it's less cumbersome to not categorize myself with large groups of a general belief. I do feel my beliefs are more complex than any general category, and forever developing as I grow intellectually.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

I still kind of cringe to say I'm anything other than Christian. It's how I was raised, but although I immediately recognized the tales as fables to teach society morality... my family members tried to enforce that Samson really had super strength that he lost when his hair was cut.. (One of my favorite stories by the way). And so reason prevailed at a young age. I do believe religion has it's benefits and do encourage people to believe every now and then, because a church done right really can be such a positive, beautiful atmosphere of friends and family. I'm complicated and hypocritical, I know. But that's why Walt Whitman has one of my favorite quotes with "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."