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I still don't get what this post is saying, and I'm totally sober right now.
"How arbitrary the connection between how you feel and how well things are going," wtf?
It refers to the fact that feelings are not a reflection of the outside reality, but a reflection of one's perception of it. According to OP, this is proven by how feelings completely change by simply changing the way the brain perceives reality, via a psycotropic compound, while actual reality remains unchanged.
This is a well known scientific and philosophical fact, that OP has only come to know recently thanks to personal experience with psycotropic drugs
Such epiphany resulted in the shower thought we are commenting.
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Good human
It doesn't really matter what's happening, with regards to how you're feeling. You can be going through shit and having a good time, or king of the world and just miserable.
IMO this is such an important thing about life. You can't control most of what happens to you, but what you can control is your attitude & your reaction. You often don't need to have an opinion, a preference, or a response to a situation/event.
The worst thing for me is to feel like I'm insane because of my feeling about a thing not aligning with how it should with regards to my understanding of things. That right there is what would make me feel unsafe in my own hands.
Imagine you cut yourself and it feels like a goddamn orgasm. Do you do it again? That's not the question. The question is what else is backwards in my brain and how can I ever feel safe?
How do I know if someone else is ripping me off of I can't measure value? How can I know what conditions are comfortable if my feeling is off?
Choice theory is pretty important to me. I'm currently being ripped off by my employer and employers everywhere are all doing the same thing because people in my category are mollified. We're not doing anything about it because it's easier to let someone else take the fall individually. We should have some kind of inherent feeling to help us all gauge what's fair to react to and what shouldn't be. Do you let the thing slide and suffer for it, or do you fight back and suffer for it? The suffering imposed in both situations is certainly being measured by those who are controlling us financially.
I assume they refer to smoking weed. It can show you the mountain before you is not always high, and that it is not always a mountain.
Sober, you might feel completely different about some specific problem, but with this you can actually take a look at it and deconstruct the problem in peace
It about how much you are influenced by chemicals made by your body in your day to day life.
Like how much your emotional state of mind depends on your body chemistry going perfectly.
Getting high on weed gives you a noticeable, controllable disruption to highlight this effect.
In my experience, it made it very clear how easy it is to have a disconnection between what is happening in the "real world", my perception of it and what happens in my brain.
Basically your brain is a big box of chemical reactions that happen regardless of what's going on in the world, and you unconsciously interpret the world through whatever your brain makes you feel at the moment. (For example, think about the fact that you don't notice your nose most of the time, it's there at all times but your brain filters it)
Weirdly enough I'm high AF and it makes sense to me