What philosophy do you subscribe to? I think brain in a vat seems plausible...

Not him but I believe nothing is real the way we think it is. So your explanation is probably the more scientific sounding sum up of that feeling

It's crazy how little people think that thinking is crazy

I saw the YouTube video which I think was basically a 10 minute ad for the book.

I have tripped, and last time I was on 4-aco-dmt (don't get excited if you don't know what it is. Your brain turns it to Psilocybin. It's lab shrooms. Extremely powerful though). A bunch of colourful geometric shapes appeared on my wall. When I moved towards them, they warped and changed and folded in on themselves while simultaneously expanding out. If I moved backwards, they reversed. If I held still they held still.

On the note of "imagining the 10th dimension" it literally felt like the exact same thing as how if a sphere passed through a 2d world it would just look like a circle that gets bigger then smaller and vanishes.
I feel like I was seeing a 5 dimensional shape. A tesseract.
Also there were figures on the other side like it was a portal. They seemed to want to meet me. Which is consistent with trip reports about machine elves and how much they love seeing us when they can.

I'm actually in general a very rational person so I feel like a mad man even talking about this, but it's fun to entertain ideas, and I saw what I saw.

Thanks for your input, I don't know if I'm sold on the idea myself. For example, if you look out the window and see a rabbit, look away, and look back, did it "dissolve" back into a probability wave while it was unobserved? That part of it is what gets me. I know my car is in the garage right now, even though I'm not observing it, I know it is there.

All I'll say is I'm not a quantum phycisist. I love this shit but I'm an ignorant layman.
But when thinking of this and seeing videos like I'll link below, I do feel like particles behaving differently when observed feels an awful lot like rendering and a computer conserving memory....

youtu.be/DfPeprQ7oGc

We're brains in vats basically regardless; the only question is the nature of the vat. And obviously the issue that our brains may be concentrated in our skulls, but they're really distributed throughout our bodies (which we call the nervous system).

youtu.be/0ca4miMMaCE

The video I saw if it isn't related to the book..

I think I would like to try that some day. You explained it really clearly.

I saw that video too, it's what made me buy it, for the further explanation, also I have a lot of Michu Kaku books and David eagleman.

Yeah that's what I love about acid and psychedelics in general, it can make rational people believers in one drop. Sounds like you had an interesting time.

>particles behaving differently when observed feels an awful lot like rendering and a computer conserving memory....
I've heard of like that too, and wonder if that is a process being handled by our brains, or by reality itself.
Didn't mean to derail.

Yeah it was my first time on that one.
I did it alone, been going through some shit and I like psychadelics because they really help get some perspective.

The part I talked about was short. But i also had an obe as a closed eye visual where everything turned into some french pencil sketch animation style and saw myself in fetal position on my bed.
Made me feel insignificant in a good way. Made my problems feel small.

drugs-philosophy, i know your kind

all belief, no reason and a substitute for religion for which there seems to be a hole in the human psychology

also nihilism is a reaction, not a philosophy

It's reality itself. The video I posted along with it is about an actual experiment and an established fact. Photons will change their behaviour based on whether or not they're being observed.
They exist as waves of probability instead of physical objects until they "have to behave".
It's nutso and who knows what the fuck it implies but that's the fun part.

Yeah you did well for your first time. The worst is when people take it just to party. It's limitless possibilities when you take it for perspective or to further expand your mind.

Double slit experiment

Can you prove I'm created/controlled by you without resorting to absence of evidence?

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I know the kind too.
I'm well educated and into scientific method and take beliefs with a grain of salt. Substituting religion is pretty accurate I guess. I was religious growing up.

But by perspective of eastern philosophy I mean more the attitudes. When shit gets hard it's nice to think that if I had eternity and total control over my experience I'd possibly eventually choose the suffering for the challenge instead of limitless pleasure out of boredom.
Heck I'm a skill tradesman. I make a lot of money in really short bursts than I can be off for a week. Work sucks, being at home for a week sucks more. You stop appreciating shit fast when you don't have a daily grind.

My first time on that drug, I'll specify. I know how to make a setting and I know how to deal with it going bad if it does.
Yeah partying with psychadelics is foolish. No control over your setting.
The FDA is working to reverse it's legal status so there's a lot of medical research being made public.
Interestingly enough they believe now that "flashbacks" aren't related to suddenly tripping again. Your body doesn't store it for later. It's a myth.

It's actually PTSD from a bad trip.

Sorry I answered without checking the video, rendering my post redundant. [This one too]

No worries. Weird though amirite?

I've tripped more than anyone should and I don't have flashbacks. Although I have had a few bad moments. People need to learn how to use it positively

Yeah I believe all sorts of weird stuff, and I completely believe this is possible in relation to all things.

Exactly.

I also think sleep needs to be figured out a bit more, with regards to dreaming. But I think my beliefs are a little out there, especially after trying astral projection.

Balance is a virtue

I really dont subscribe to anything reductionary, which often means simply abandoning philosophies and thinking that deals with things outside my immediate reach. I try to see the whole of the things around me and not worry about what I cant know. I think thats existentialism but idk I skipped that reading in philosophy 101

Does anyone here remember their dreams/give credence to them?

I did some psych and we actually do know a fair bit about dreaming. Not everything but we've got a good idea.

When you sleep your brain is memory consolidating. It's taking the new information from the day and storing it and sorting it and seeing what's useful and what isn't. It's also pairing up past knowledge and trying to make connections. It's also deleting shit it doesn't think is relevant. It doesn't like digging through too much, it slows decision making. Think of it as defragmenting.
With all this information flying around it all gets Mish mashed together and you get dreams.

It's also emotional rehearsal. Its simulating scenarios (though bizarre) to help train for what could happen in the future. Think about how exposing yourself to difficult situations makes it easier over time? It's kind of trying to do that while you sleep.

Nightmares are caused by anxiety, and it's still emotional rehearsal. Putting you in dangerous or emotionally taxing situations to try and figure out solutions. Keep in mind, this is coming from deep less evolved parts of your brain that don't quite know we aren't in the jungle.
Being chased by a monster is a very real world problem to those parts of your brain.

Tl;Dr though sometimes non sensical it's literally all just defragmenting and preparation.

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