Hyperfocus allows you to immerse yourself to a profound degree.
To observe your subject with surpassing clarity. To control it deeply. To see what others cannot see. To create what others cannot create. To solve the hardest riddles.
We owe much of our great art, science and technology to it.
If that isn’t a superpower then I don’t know what is.
You clearly fail to sympathize with the suffering of “normies”. Bound in a web of illusion. Never seeing clearly. I am shocked and appalled. :)
Also, some can control it. The power of hyperfocus is not exclusive to ADHD. Consider the autist, the sperg, the concentration meditation enthusiast (and a thousand unclassified shapes).
The world is large and you are small. Think on that the next time you feel tempted to wallow in outrage.
“consciousness” isn’t exactly a method. Can you describe it differently? What exactly am I doing here? How am I picking a different set of constructs to manipulate?
You have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
didn’t we all grow up needing to be secretive? is it because of the adage of how ‘everyone thinks women are hot’ so like even straight women would get turned on more by their own moaning?...
My point is, this thing that we have here is unprecedented in its vast size and it’s profound disconnection from reality.
So no, not just “a conversation”.
A conversation where most of the talk refers to fantasy. Where any insanity can find a support group filled with the likeminded. Where the greatest powers are those that seek to manipulate us and control our attention. A dreamworld where matter is entertainment.
And everybody takes it so seriously.
If it was a person we’d put him in an asylum.
Yes, what is this thing?
If this were a fantasy novel we might call it a hell-realm filled with hungry hallucinating ghosts and promise-weaving succubi. Too much?
Re this giant conversation… this collective linguistic technology-augmented hallucination…
It’s good because it ignores space. You can talk to anybody all over the world instantaneously.
It’s bad because it is dominated by the loudest
It’s good because we can render our ideas in a broad menu of options. Text, sound, video
It’s bad because it does not differentiate between levels of abstraction. First-hand accounts carry the same weight as fifth-hand acccounts.
It’s good because it’s convenient. Smartphones.
It’s bad because it exists entirely apart from the world. Asserting a world-ness of its own. And that’s a seductive argument.
It’s good and bad because it supplies infinite entertainment.
It is strong and weak the way all language is strong and weak.
That’s all that one person could come up with in 5 minutes. Theoretically the combined intellect of the internet’s billions might come up with a couple more.
We are already in heaven. The divine already lies within us. This has always been and will always be true. Each of us must simply stop reinforcing the fear that this is not so. Meditation helps us learn how to stop. By stopping, we can truly experience what we are and better understand our connection to the universe. Through the...
What do you mean “breath”? The sound of it? The feeling of it in my belly, chest, throat or nose? The idea of it? There’s a lot there. And to place my attention upon all that is too much for me.
I find it easier to hold my attention upon the feeling of breath in the end of my nose. That is what I use as my “object” when doing that style of meditation. (the “holding my attention upon a thing” style)
As far as the “Observe your mind as you move your awareness up and down your body” part goes, I have not done that.
And speaking of meditation techniques, I only do Vipassana these days.
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didn’t we all grow up needing to be secretive? is it because of the adage of how ‘everyone thinks women are hot’ so like even straight women would get turned on more by their own moaning?...
We can discuss a thing that we never saw 24-7-365. (See reddit/lemmy/X/etc for examples). What is this?
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Meditative Thought of the Day
We are already in heaven. The divine already lies within us. This has always been and will always be true. Each of us must simply stop reinforcing the fear that this is not so. Meditation helps us learn how to stop. By stopping, we can truly experience what we are and better understand our connection to the universe. Through the...