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Meh, people playing with words. If you have taken psychedelics you know what a shift in consciousness feels like. Depression does not feel like that.
by callesgg 5y ago
Meh, people playing with words.
If you have taken psychedelics you know what a shift in consciousness feels like.
Depression does not feel like that.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoI feel like my depression can change the way I interact with and percieve everything.
- DocTomoe 5y ago"State of consciousness" is a technical term that describes a mode of your experience. Sleep is a state of consciousness. That trance-like hyperfocussed flow experience is a state of consciousness. You can induce a state of consciousness by meditation. Depression may just be a state of consciousness. States of consciousness can usually be measured and distinguished from each other with standard brain-scanning methods. Not all shift in these states need to be as flashy as a LSD trip. In fact, very few are.
- Levitz 5y agoI have taken psychedelics and frankly I'd say it does feel like that, just in a non-enjoyable, "bad" way. One makes you notice tiny details and the beauty in them, the other paints everything as grey and uninteresting, one makes you thing about the greater scope of things, the other barely lets you think much outside your circumstance. I really think it does translate.
- callesgg 5y agoDepression for me is mostly being disengaged, not noticing anything, not wanting to think about anything, wanting to sleep 16 hours a day, feeling only low or neutral valence thoughts.