consciousness

Hi people, I've been here for quite some time now, but it's the first time I'm making a post and it's a big post. There is something I want to share as well as something I want to learn and there is no better place than this to do that. Depersonalisation-Derealisation embodies a large number...

Seriously. It's been almost 3 years now and I can't seem to accept this part of the disorder. People don't look like pieces of meat, it doesn't feel like i'm going to fall in the sky, i got used to my human body and movements, animals and plants seem familiar. You could say the DR doesn't freak...

Before reading my post, I please ask you to take a moment to look at what you consider consciousness to be. Imagine we take away your personality, your memories, your ability to think, essentially everything that makes you, you. What is left is a very minimal "essence" of you that simply feels...

The brain on LSD revealed: first scans show how the drug affects the brain by Kate Wighton 11 April 2016 http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_11-4-2016-17-21-2 The areas that contributed to vision were more active under LSD (right), which was linked...

NO WE DO NOT HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIA -- Mentally Healthy Individuals are made to feel this sensation of the presense of another. It does not linger. A symptom in schizophrenia and in extreme solitary situations. This is quite an astonishing development. This perceptual distortion was first...

I already posted something like this a month ago, but I find that this seems to be the root of my problems, and I just cant seem to fix this root!! I feel WAY too conscious that I am alive. Call it hyperconsciousness, extreme consciousness, turboconsciousness, hyper-awareness, whatever, I feel...

Hello everyone! I have been lurking through these inspirational stories, but haven't had the courage to post my own until now. I was told that talking/writing/typing/expressing whats on your mind is one of the best ways to relieve stress, so here'goes. I was a pretty constantly stressed out...