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That happened to me, only I was 16, and it was before Google was around to tell me what happened. I would later come to find it was some form of ego death; thou
by RyanAdamas 3y ago
That happened to me, only I was 16, and it was before Google was around to tell me what happened. I would later come to find it was some form of ego death; though I've never heard it put the way the interviewee puts it, but he describes it well. It messed me up for almost a decade. It was this immediate change, not unlike when someone dies, only no one else believes that person is gone, only you realize it; for everyone else that person still exists and is just getting weirder. Kinda hard to explain to people what happened without them being dismissive cause they once took lsd in a van at a festival. Its not the same as a bad trip, and for me there was no recovery.
Eh, shit happens and then you die. No one tells you, you lose parts along the way, too. But, you do.
- kyleyeats 3y agoI've described it as a form of ego death in my own philosophy. We basically have three selves: self, self-in-world and self-in-society. Ego death happens when the self-in-world dies (derealization) or the self-in-society dies (depersonalization). It's not actually that "self" that dies, though, just the associated narrative. You can still get emotional rewards of that flavor, just not from that narrative. Your other two "selves" have essentially voted it out and will no longer play along with it. The narratives can be as simple as I'm invincible or I have a special role to play in society which of course psychedelics can break apart.
- aatd86 3y agoThe aliens tried to replace you. Put your ego in a background process. :o)