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> One thing is if you actually think it's a supernatural Being watching over you, another if you know it's just an illusion. If it's anything like building a "
by krageon 6y ago
> One thing is if you actually think it's a supernatural Being watching over you, another if you know it's just an illusion.
If it's anything like building a "mind palace" it's a little bit of both. I started trying to do that 18 years ago and have a very good positional memory now, but it definitely started out as me pretending to see houses in my head.
- mangorabbit 6y agothat's a different practice though, just uses the same tool (visualization). The goal is not happiness/serenity/inner strength but powering up your memory.
- krageon 6y agoIt's fundamentally the same thing, at first I was pretending. Now when I have to access positional memory I see it in my mind and it doesn't feel artificial at all. I can walk through places I've been and remember small environmental details if I focus on them, which is very convenient when I get lost (I have no sense of direction). It's real in a way that it never was before, which is not dissimilar to what we're talking about.