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As a fully abled person with strong body and ego, what I've taken out of the experiences is the humbling effect of not being able to trust my own senses or conc

As a fully abled person with strong body and ego, what I've taken out of the experiences is the humbling effect of not being able to trust my own senses or conclusions about the world. It's what I call "Mental Handicap Experience", but with a positive twist where coming out of heavy experiences made me re-evaluate my cognition, surroundings, life choices under a completely different light. I am not sure everyone would agree with me calling this the famous death of ego. But each of these experiences felt like my previous self has died and a second person came in to my body to reevaluate the state of reality. Even though, in hindsight, I don't think I have changed much in a long term, I recall positively the short term effects on quality of my life.

klyrs 3y ago
What you've written is reflected pretty well under the title "ego death" on the site in question... https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death
AmpsterMan 3y ago
I've found that the "reborn" person only lasts as long as you put into practice the new relevations. This requires thinking of actionable items, or behaviors to think on, but otherwise it's worked. This of course may just be my experience
- high_priest 3y ago
  Thought inducing observation, where we understand chemistry of our brain as something maluable by exercise and habit creation. I would have taken a different stab at this idea by proposing that the "new revelations" which appear in hightened state of consciousness, are our prior experiences boosted and unfiltered, allowing for previously weak and seemingly unimportant ideas, to be manifested and actually recombined into actionable items. Our opinions are verified in a dream-like alternative reality and if they are actually as profound as they seemed in that dream, then we turn them ibto actions even unconciously.

klyrs 3y ago

What you've written is reflected pretty well under the title "ego death" on the site in question... https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death

AmpsterMan 3y ago

I've found that the "reborn" person only lasts as long as you put into practice the new relevations. This requires thinking of actionable items, or behaviors to think on, but otherwise it's worked. This of course may just be my experience

high_priest 3y ago
Thought inducing observation, where we understand chemistry of our brain as something maluable by exercise and habit creation. I would have taken a different stab at this idea by proposing that the "new revelations" which appear in hightened state of consciousness, are our prior experiences boosted and unfiltered, allowing for previously weak and seemingly unimportant ideas, to be manifested and actually recombined into actionable items. Our opinions are verified in a dream-like alternative reality and if they are actually as profound as they seemed in that dream, then we turn them ibto actions even unconciously.