• Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I still don’t get what this post is saying, and I’m totally sober right now.

    “How arbitrary the connection between how you feel and how well things are going,” wtf?

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      1 year ago

      It refers to the fact that feelings are not a reflection of the outside reality, but a reflection of one’s perception of it. According to OP, this is proven by how feelings completely change by simply changing the way the brain perceives reality, via a psycotropic compound, while actual reality remains unchanged.

      This is a well known scientific and philosophical fact, that OP has only come to know recently thanks to personal experience with psycotropic drugs

      Such epiphany resulted in the shower thought we are commenting.

      beep beep, I am not a bot, this action wasn’t performed automatically

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      1 year ago

      I assume they refer to smoking weed. It can show you the mountain before you is not always high, and that it is not always a mountain.

      Sober, you might feel completely different about some specific problem, but with this you can actually take a look at it and deconstruct the problem in peace

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t really matter what’s happening, with regards to how you’re feeling. You can be going through shit and having a good time, or king of the world and just miserable.