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One book I just read talks about Synesthesia where one sense sparks another like domino train. Obvispulwu this relates to religion. I never understood who people csn trust their own experiences more than proven facts.
Depends. Usually I know what my hallucinations are because they're recurring.
Having schizophrenia you can't tell. That's why meds are needed.
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I’ve never had a hallucination that i couldn’t separate from reality. I’m not even sure i’m capable. When i was young i had a recurring dream that i didn’t much like. I read a book about lucid dreaming and learned to become aware of my dream states and to take control of them.
I am very interested in trying potent hallucinogens like peyote & ayajuasca.
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re getting at though. It’s important to remember that people have different methods of approaching understanding and belief. Belief requires little to no proof. Sometimes we’re committed to a belief before we even have critical thinking skills, it’s called indoctrination. Once we develop those skills, understanding becomes more influential on our beliefs. If our experiences tend to support our beliefs, we remain faithful and continue on our set path. If not, we start to question what we’ve been taught and often experience cognitive dissonance. People who are uncomfortable with holding two conflicting beliefs will always modify their behavior to make life easier despite not having all available information to make the best decision.
Sometimes the factors that cause people to start questioning their beliefs is finding out that the person or people who taught them something they believe has lied or is lying to them about something else. That’s an interesting dilemma because they may or may not have lied or be lying about everything. That doesn’t stop the critical mind from reconsidering what you might refer to as “facts”. When that kind of questioning converges with experiences that also do not align with the “facts”, people will often choose another path where new information makes more sense because it aligns with what they think they know and/or isn’t coming from someone who lies.
Too many people lie. And you are practicing “belief” every single time you don’t question something you’re told. When you’ve been lied to enough, you’ll choose belief or willful ignorance rather than exist in a state of constant confusion.
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“In all matters it is a healthy thing to occasionally hang a question mark on things you’ve long taken for granted.” - Bertrand Russell
You're confused.
Hallucinations, synaesthesia and reality are not things directly linked together - let alone to religion.
You get some bullshit books by whack authors, so don't assume "it's published, so it must be true!" They've got to sell their book, and pay bills, after all.
As for your assertion. Hallucinations tend to be mostly harmless, but meaningful. For example people with epilepsy will often experience such before an "episode". But people on acid will get them due to psychotropic effects. It doesn't affect the "reality" around them in either case.
Synaesthesia is mostly a defunct term. It mostly now comes under the "autism" bracket as most people who get it are on the spectrum. Neuroscience is coming a long way and these people function different mentally than non divergent people. But again, it doesn't change "reality" as their sensors to reality are different is all.
Religion isn't about the mental or the physical - it's about the moral and metaphysical. It's not like a passport or nationality that you can change over when you fulfil certain requirements.
You can tell except I think there's always some doubt. I've known people that have auditory hallucinations and for the most part they think the voices aren't real except they're not completely convinced about that. It's not binary in the sense that you either believe they're real or you don't. It can often be somewhere in between. This is part of what makes hallucinations so pernicious in that you sometimes act on them and you sometimes don't and that this tendency is not particularly predictable to others. When treating other people the goal is to eliminate hallucinations all together although this is very difficult to do.
I guess it depends on what kind of hallucination, is it mental health or lack of sleep or drugs or what? but hallucinations can kind of be linked to the idea of miracles and plenty of people still believe in those
this isn't hallucinations, but i swear there's something about having an extra finger or something when you're dreaming? - i just searched that up and never mind i don't know what i was thinking of lol
usually yes.
sometimes seems so real, but realize it's not. mind can makeup stuff... what we see is a projection. so question is if we can rationalize that projection.
but then again I've had a few experiences regarding "intuition" that says there is more to space and time and logic than our logic can explain. sensing the future seems possible.
the right brain may be way more powerful than we realize and under developed in our logic /fact driven world.
what facts exist 10 minues from how? or logic can only do probabilities. but our intuitive feeling being might be able to see this differently. I recall hearing about science projects studying this but that was years ago.
You only discern reality through your own senses and you are going to trust your own experiences more than some "expert." That's why people with schizophrenia who are not on meds eventually cannot discern what is a hallucination and what is not.
Hallucinations don't follow the laws of the universe or of nature. They also generally don't make sense. Thing is people who experience Hallucinations are generally on something. Though their are rare instances where they have a neurological condition.
Push on the side of one eye. If it's real you'll see double but an hallucination will only appear once.
The people in the white coats will cover that after checking in. No worries. Just relax.
ask someone or take a picture
if it doesn't appear on pic then its not real
I stopped during drugs a couple of years back so whatever bs I see that seems tooo far fetched to be the truth, I’d be concerned.
The only time this would really been an issue for me is if I were to ever experience paralysis during sleep.
the actual experience i had a month a go i haven't fully divulged. i was separated from my reality. i physically had to move away or run into the alternate. i didn't see it, but i could hear it. and i don't hear things ever
if you're not shizo you'll know because hallus are stuff that typically do not make sense. you won't hallucinate probably an extra pillow in your bedroom or a mouse, but more likely like a random person sitting on your bed, ghosts, demons etc.
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u I don't have to... I just roll with it
I have noticed ironically, those facing a long jail sentence out of nowhere suddenly develop these symptoms when cross examined in court!
typical philosophy bs. we weren't born yesterday.
I have mirror pain synesthesia. I can tell my leg isn’t really broken when I see another’s because I can think logically
Pretty sure I didn’t actually sprout wings and fly away that one time…
Neo suspected something was wrong.
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