Think About This

have you ever thought about how you are just this brain trapped in a body and its just your brain talking and controling you and your brain is reading this and its just your brain.. think about it its fucked... im stoned

 

Yes I have! I think about it all the time...how we're just trapped inside a body and the brain is really all we are.

 

Always think about that. Think about where your perspective comes from, physically. It's somewhere in the middle of the skull, right behind the eyes.......the brain I guess, but it's different when you think about that perspective as you.

 

yup ive thought about that.......and its actually kinda freaky if youre really high....

 

or otherwise too man

 

ok think about this. maybe your brain is like a parasite on your body which is the host. did you ever see "independence day" where the aliens have a parasite in them and their bodies are only the host? maybe our brain was alot smaller until this parasite invaded and then it became bigger and mixed with our dna and the only reason that your mind won't accept this stuff is because your mind is being controlled by this foreign being. maybe the x-files knew something after all- or did they doh! i've given away too much, or did i?

 

You are more than your brain, people. Don't let the scientific dogma hold you down. The body works as a whole; what is a brain without a heart? A stomach? A liver?

See, the body is a system of total integration. It doesn't look like it in dissection because the integration happens at the cell level, at the tips of nerves, and blood vessels. All of it is connected. Thus, from the outside looking in, you see lots of parts, like a machine (an ugly idea). But we know, based on our perspective, that our body is whole. We think in terms of parts, which is a shame, but we feel, experience, in terms of the whole. One body in time and space, not a collection of various organs and tissues.

This, I believe, is why if we act as though we are on the outside looking in at the universe (that is, that we are seperate from it) all we see is the parts. But if we get inside life and become part of it, we see unity. I heard it said, "living is an inside job." Get into it, man.

 

weak sauce!

 

first time i noticed this waqs when i was young watching the news, the corrospondent annouced that mr so and so's body had been found, instead of saying mr so and so had been found dead.

 

if you think about it too much it's like your separated fom your body...

 

I have.... never thought about that... ever...
I'll be sure to mention it to my friends next time they're high, just to see them freak the hell out.

 

The first time I'd every given this a huge amount a thought was about a year ago. Someone asked "are you a brain, or do you have a brain?" Without a brain there is no I, so obviously I am a brain.

I kind of think of it like, a shell fish or something. The brain is the actual fish and body is just the shell.

 

but you are the brain...so all is well.

 

i think like that sometimes, although i used to think that i was just a pair of eyes, trapped in a body... kind of the same thing just a less formed thought.

 

I think about that often.... sometimes I also think im like a dream in someone elses brain im not really here not really doing this someone is controlling me like a puppet.... o0o0o freakay but kinda kinkay

 

but trippinBTM's got it pretty right. just like sullen girl said, without a brain there is no I so you are your brain. same with you are your body! without your heart, your brain could not live. yes, the brain's impulses keep the heart moving, but the heart's pumping keeps the brain alive which creates the impulses which keep the heart moving.... it goes on. and this is still looking at it from an outside perspective. in truth, the body is an integrated system which works together, not seperatly. and the only way to understand this is to stop saying it and explaining it, and feel it. when you feel a sensation or even think a thought, there is no seperation between body and mind, or anything else, its only when you create a mental image or model which breaks it up into this organ does this, and that organ does that, and the one that controls it all is the brain. i guess its human nature to do this.



have you ever thought about this? - so we're trying to understand the brain, the body and its functions right? but in order to do so, we must use the parts of the brain and body that we are trying to figure out! what we fail to realize is that while we're convinced that the thoughts and ideas that we come up with are the true nature of the brain, we are already doing those things. do you know how to beat your heart? do you know how to do anything really? when you move a muscle, you know what to do but do you really know how you're doing it? see, on the level of experience we are integrated, for we are constantly existing and being, even when trying understand the nature of our existence and the way that we are.

 

actually you are not a brain trapped in a body. You ARE your body. Your conscience is your body, not just your brain.

 

i dont think its that amazing personally. i think that the human mind is a rather insophisticated thing. and i still believe that the brain is who we are, but im not gonna go into it again in this thread.

cut off your leg and i dont think you will lose any part of your mind capabilities.

 

i freak about this often these days

never once did until about a year ago

and its been down hill ever since, even tripped out about it a few times now and its not fun ! bad trip...! thought i was going down a couple times, sober or not, either way its crappy tripping out on this, and now its too late as its in my head it wont leave, one time i was atg work(third shift) and work was slow and i was sitting there and bam it hits me, i thought i was going unconscious i was looking all around the plant like oh crap this sux, it took a while to walk it off finally, luckily i didnt go down but i thought i was that time, no one noticed, so thats cool i guess, but that time i wasnt tripping about anything, i was just sitting chillin at work minding my own business, the machine was broke so we were waiting on the operator to get it going again,


i highly recommend not thinking about this stuff in particular

it can turn bad,

it turns you crazy or i dont know what to call it but i havent had it happen for a few weeks now so i hope im ok, i dont know,

it sux.

theres something in my life thats missing that i need to find and that will keep my mind off things like this but i dont know what and dont know how and i hope i may find it/them some day, or i dunno whats gonna happen one day,.,.


good luck

 

yeah i know man its all fucked up to be honest , i dont believe i have found people who think the same ..its crazy!