Now you may find this a little whacky, but the original post reminds me a lot of Terrence McKenna's idea of Novelty.
He postulates that time and experience are not linear at all but in fact ebb and flow with a quality he calls "novelty". That is, some times you "go with the flow", with what you call "normal". The world carries on as it always has and nothing eventful really happens.
But sometimes there is a quality to experience and reality he calls "novelty", which is when new things happen. You have new experiences, face new challenges and come to new understanding of your world, your mind, your self.
The idea is that this happens in "waves" (but I won't go into that), which is more or less similar to what you say in your post.
Now I am wondering here about what Janine said. I think we with anxiety issues tend to look at the novel times and think grandiosity. i.e. "Wow, this new idea is the best, the most fabulous, the thing that's finally going to crystallize all of this uncertainty into a grand sense of enlightenment" (or at least it has been like that for me in the past). But what it really is is a natural unfolding, becoming process that will never reach a climax or final crystallization.
So I'm wondering if I'm just babbling incoherently or whether its just a matter of how you approach this shift from normal to novelty. i.e. Do you think what I am describing as novelty is happening or is it just the fantasy world you talk about? Or is the novelty really occurring and instead of relaxing and taking it in stride we build it up to mean something it can't possibly mean and ultimately burn ourselves out (or something similar, I'm tired) by analysing and stressing over it?
He postulates that time and experience are not linear at all but in fact ebb and flow with a quality he calls "novelty". That is, some times you "go with the flow", with what you call "normal". The world carries on as it always has and nothing eventful really happens.
But sometimes there is a quality to experience and reality he calls "novelty", which is when new things happen. You have new experiences, face new challenges and come to new understanding of your world, your mind, your self.
The idea is that this happens in "waves" (but I won't go into that), which is more or less similar to what you say in your post.
Now I am wondering here about what Janine said. I think we with anxiety issues tend to look at the novel times and think grandiosity. i.e. "Wow, this new idea is the best, the most fabulous, the thing that's finally going to crystallize all of this uncertainty into a grand sense of enlightenment" (or at least it has been like that for me in the past). But what it really is is a natural unfolding, becoming process that will never reach a climax or final crystallization.
So I'm wondering if I'm just babbling incoherently or whether its just a matter of how you approach this shift from normal to novelty. i.e. Do you think what I am describing as novelty is happening or is it just the fantasy world you talk about? Or is the novelty really occurring and instead of relaxing and taking it in stride we build it up to mean something it can't possibly mean and ultimately burn ourselves out (or something similar, I'm tired) by analysing and stressing over it?
