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Is it really the "rational self"? Personally, I think it's just my lazy instincts kicking in.
by Retr0spectrum 9y ago
Is it really the "rational self"? Personally, I think it's just my lazy instincts kicking in.
- jacobush 9y agoYour rational self being brought back to the party line.
- centimeter 9y agoDuring a psychedelic mushroom trip, for the first few hours my rational mind is heavily dampened. I’m not fully aware or conscious in the normal way, and I mostly just remember are intense sensory and emotional impressions. After around 4 or 5 hours, my rational mind comes back with a vengeance and more biological drives are dampened. Pain (temporarily) ceases to be a motivator, as do other low-level emotional sensations like embarrassment, hunger, and whatever weird energy conservation instinct it is that makes many people prefer not to exercise. At this time, when my mind is clearest (there are several other metaphors I could use here, but let’s go with that), I feel like I could totally exercise as hard as I should for as long as I should without getting caught by that nasty energy-saving mechanism we call laziness. As a comparison, many people are willing to grind for hours on an MMO character, but aren’t willing to go to the gym for half an hour a day. Without the normal din of brain activity, it’s easy to apply the video game mentality to your meatspace person. The thing that did finally get me habitually exercising (while sober, of course) was an in-work gym, since sometimes repeatedly lifting heavy things is preferable to another minute dealing with most software products.