I am a living and thinking being - Isn't that amazing?

Sometimes, I have strange thoughts. I guess, everyone has them.

This morning, between shaving and showering, I once again had a train of thought that I sometimes have, for no apparent reason, and little lasting effect.
I remembered that I am a living and thinking being, that thinking means that I must exist - cogito ergo sum? "You don't think you exist? I'll prove it in a moment" *kicking a stone* "ouch"), and I came to think of the fact that my life will come to an end some day (and by the way, will I be a parent or grand parent by then, or will I still live a single but not uncontent life then), and what this all could mean, how can this even be true and how is being not being...

And then, the moment was over, and I don't really know what to think about it, and I can't even describe how it felt. It's just... weird, maybe a moment of clarity or revelation, but it's fleeting and over so fast that you can't really saviour it...

Am I the only person in the world to whom this kind of thoughts happen from time to time (I guess not)? What can we make of it (I guess Nothing)? Anyone knows what can bring him in this mindset? (No drug suggestions, please) :)
 

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I have thoughts like that all the time, some good some bad :P They are usually my constant companion before I go to sleep at night.

Another thing that spurs it on, is music, not even music that is unnecessarily symbolic to me or that I listen to, simply music. One track of music could make me think of one possible future for me, another a past event, another a "what could have been" etc.

In general these thoughts either frustrate me or relax me, depending of course on my current emotional/mental mindset.
 

I think the Philosophers pondered life as such. I am neither a Philosopher nor a person who understands philosophy, but I posit simply. Thinking is a good thing.

I suggest a notebook to write down your genius and madness.

As to your question, what do you want to make of it? Depending on your circumstances/needs/wants, it can be as simple as taking a walk everyday to think to reassessing your life.
 

Aye, I know what you speak of MR. My mind can have odd revelations/thoughts of sorts which really... disquiet me. Part of it comes from me thinking too much about things, and part just seems to come unbidden and uninvited. Often, it's be on a bus on my way to school (with my headphones on), or on a walk, or in the shower or in any other number of semi-private events.

I suppose one of the most eerie ones I've had which I recall right now is how random we come to be. I mean, let's say you and I are both, of course, well aware that we are. We are here, we are alive, we are living our lives - and yet our lives are simply a legacy of our parents, who were brought together by events which influenced them in their lives, which in turn (their lives, I should clarify) were started by their parents/your grandparents, and so on and so fourth. The circumstances which brought you to be in the place you are now stretch so far and wide that it is incomprehensible. The impossibility of circumstances that brought us to the present, through wars, famine, plague, hardship, the elements, assassinations, murders, accidents and all the other occurances, mishaps and misfortunes of our ancestors is on a scale we can only look at the tiniest tip of its iceberg and say "oh, that's my life right there, and I'm basically ignorant of all the rest of these factors." Your ancestors have such a huge influence on your life, and yet we humans realise this not, so focused are we on the present and the future.

It's hard not to look to the new dawn and forget the blaze of the old one, or the millions of ones before it, and yet these days well-lived by those before us brought us fourth to the now. It's an eerie thought, indeed.

cheers,
--N
 

Sometimes I'll get up in the morning, and have a total lack of self-awareness until I look in the mirror, then realize "Hey, that hairy giant of a man is me!"

It's not a happy or unhappy realization; just sort of a 'huh' moment. It's more the realization immediately afterward that I wasn't 'me' until I saw myself that I find remarkable.
 



I'm not sure if this is exactly the same thing, but sometimes I get to thinking about existence I have this weird zooming in while zooming out feeling where I think about consciousness, and how I'm conscious of my consciousness, and my further ability to be conscious of my consciousness of my consciousness and it's like looking in the mirror and seeing yourself within yourself ad infinitum. Then I just tell myself to snap out of it. I swear to God I've never done drugs in my life, haha.
 

Megaton said:
I'm not sure if this is exactly the same thing, but sometimes I get to thinking about existence I have this weird zooming in while zooming out feeling where I think about consciousness, and how I'm conscious of my consciousness, and my further ability to be conscious of my consciousness of my consciousness and it's like looking in the mirror and seeing yourself within yourself ad infinitum. Then I just tell myself to snap out of it. I swear to God I've never done drugs in my life, haha.
I think that's the feeling. Or at least one variant of it.

We don't need no stinking drugs for that... A simple mirror can do! :)
 

Haha, yeah. Also, I sometimes get that feeling when I stare at the back of my hand, looking at all the pores and whatnot. Freaks me out sometimes. : P
 

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