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Objects in my house have "teleported" or "moved" from their previous locations. Ordinary mundane objects. Happened twice now. I think on both occasions, I would decide to move some object to a specific location, then I would listen to music and get busy in that, then during that, the object would get moved/teleported somewhere else. It's almost like it wants to get my attention by only moving something that I personally wanted to move as well, because the only reason I notice it is because I know for a fact I recently wanted to move these things today. This time, the objects in question were moved to the exact same area that I decided to move them away from, so it basically reversed all the work I did. Assuming I'm not insane, what could this mean? The general consensus from a quick internet search says a ghost/entity, but nothing more really. If this means anything, I have seen a ghost/spirit/entity when I was very very young. So perhaps some genetic inclination is there. Pretty harmless stuff overall. More cool than creepy, so that's a nice balance. I'm glad it's not going ape shit and instead it's deciding to move around harmless objects. Maybe the ghost is trying to flirt with me? Otherwise, this type of stuff happens very rarely, so I tend to just shrug it off and forget about it.

In terms of inner experience, it always seems to happen when I'm busy in music and alone in the house. I have hyperphantasia, so music really stimulates my imagination and emotions, I'm basically completely entranced by it. Aside from that, I couldn't point out any other dramatic changes, aside from maybe career changes and technology malfunctioning (two of my laptops stopped functioning because of different reasons, now I have to get a third one). And I have also been much more emotional lately for some unknown reason. Usually, I always get explicit signs from the universe through number synchronicities rather than moving objects. So I find it odd. This is only the second time this type of thing has happened to me, so it's rare. Thank you for your input.

You and him are intimately tied together, along with everything else in your experience. It's hard to linguistically explicate it more than that without it getting confusing. Kind of. It's a bit of a paradox. Notice that, experientially, there is absolutely no difference between a reality where other people are having their own bubble at the same time as you, and a reality where each bubble is taking their own separate turn. If you got teleported to either reality, you would literally never notice it, because the only difference in either reality is what you decide to imagine. The difference between both realities is always just what you imagine, that's it. Because time is relative, so anything to do with time will always come down to a difference of imagination, since time is relative and imaginary. Here is another perspective: your inability to perceive their bubble IS how you perceive their bubble, because if you ACTUALLY perceived their bubble, it would immediately become your own bubble, because ultimately consciousness cannot separate itself from itself, so the lack of other bubbles is actually what causes you to infer that there are "other" bubbles in the first place. Really, fundamentally, what you're asking is these things: -What does it mean for something to exist? How do I know something exists? How do I know if something doesn't exist? -How is duality and separation created? How does reality separate itself? If you just clearly figure out the above questions, you will easily be able to answer any questions involving other people and their existence, because all you have to do then is apply what you already know. Here are some more pointers which may or may not be helpful:

It is limited to a certain appearance right now. If we met in real life, I would become a more physical appearance for a brief moment, and then it would go back to being an imaginative appearance once I leave your physical experience again. Consciousness is very ephemeral and dreamlike in this way, as it constantly creates and removes all the appearances around you, filling it in whenever necessary. Furthermore, humans are not conscious. Humans happen within consciousness. No object or subject "has" consciousness. It's the other way around. Consciousness has objects/subjects. And then, consciousness might imagine distinctions between itself, and then it might imagine that certain distinctions of itself carry a different or separate consciousness. This can happen in dreams too, as with any state of consciousness. All distinctions and separations are ultimately imagined, but be careful, because there's also nothing wrong with imagination. If you create a mental hierarchy that says imagination is "less real" than the rest of reality, that's just more imagination on top of imagination. Neurotically clinging to states of consciousness which lack imagination is a big trap in this work. The key is CONSCIOUSLY imagining, rather than shunning away imagination altogether.

Your POV is entangled with their POV. It's all one thing, together. In order for there to be "other" there has to be a "you" to contrast it. How are you talking about something that doesn't exist? Something is there, of course. Otherwise what are we talking about? Everything you experience has to exist in some capacity, otherwise you wouldn't experience it. You just have to figure out what it actually exists AS. The confusion with the term "solipsism" appears because it refers to something people don't fully understand, which is "self", "other" and "existence", among maybe a few other things. Essentially, they are putting the cart before the horse. They don't even understand what they are asking, so how would they understand the answer? Similar to someone saying "God" and then from that someone inferring a bearded man in the sky. "Is God real?" "Yes, God is real. Just look at your experience." "What are you talking about? I don't see a bearded man in the sky!" Of course, you lose a lot of brevity with language. Words are just fingers pointing at things. It's up to you to actually move your head and look.

I do. You feel more without it, the lube muddles up the tactile sensations with its thickness and slipperiness. Maybe my penis is just more soft than most people, because I don't know why so many people feel the need for it. Also, to be fair, someone in the thread did mention just using a pillow. But yes, I agree most people use lube, but I feel like if more people questioned why they use it, perhaps the number would be lower. Most lubes remove too much resistance for me. I don't find the oily texture to be a good compensation. Best sensation for me personally is just simple moisturization. When you moisturize it before-hand (with lotion or something), and then just let it absorb and moisturize by itself, it becomes much softer and smoother, but without oiliness or too much lack of resistance. Like when you shake someone's hand, and you can tell they use lotion cause it's super soft and moisturized, that kind of sensation. It's the feeling AFTER you moisturize something that I like. You can literally feel the air breezing across your skin at that point, it's amazing. You don't really get that with oil. There's like a sharp contrast between the moisture and the dry air, and you can directly feel it on your penis because it's so moisturized, but there's like no thick layer of lube or oil covering it, so the sensation is very direct.

I usually don't use lube. Lube usually removes too much resistance, which I don't like at all because it removes a lot of the tactile sensations, it's like im fucking the air or something. Most of the time I don't find a need for it. Otherwise, natural lube tends to come out anyways. If I had to pick, olive oil or lotion is good.

Because you're putting yourself in situations that require someone who is healthy (or has good cardiovascular function, in the context of the example you gave), and so the body adapts to that. The body is constantly adapting to its environment. It's not gonna spend energy maximizing its cardiovascular function if there is no need for it, but exercise creates a need for it. A problem appears when even the need for basic movement disappears (perhaps you sit on your couch all day and have a servant bring you all your food), so then the body adapts to that and slowly removes your efficiency in moving around, even if it is to a dysfunctional extent.

This does seem more plausible to me than ghosts/entities. I don't recall hearing anything moving, and I don't think a ghost would care about moving random mundane objects. If I had to guess, the method of movement was something non-physical and instantaneous, like teleportation. Being moved to a "different reality" would accomplish this method of movement, since I would have to be instantly teleported there without my knowing.

Interesting. I doubt it is a dead relative though, since the objects being moved are completely mundane and impersonal (pens, gift wrap, paintings). It's more like I'm being messed with for no reason, rather than some residual imprint from a dead relative. It's very random and impersonal.

Ok, yes, true. Three things, though: 1. I don't know if it will happen again if I start recording it. The ghost (if we assume there is one) might be shy. Who knows how ghosts operate? Maybe it's not meant to be recorded, and that puts off the ghost or entity from ever doing it again. For example, if by coincidence there was a camera positioned there today, maybe it would have caused the incident to never actually occur. Maybe ghosts are intelligent in this way, or certain environmental conditions need to be met. 2. It is completely unpredictable. It could happen again a year from now with some completely random object located in some random location in the house. It happens rarely. 3. My intuition tells me that this is very purposefully being done in a way where no evidence can be gathered. Otherwise, it would just happen more often or in a more obvious way. Also, as I said before, it happens very rarely. So, basically, it covers up its tracks pretty well, to the point where I just look insane and it's basically impossible to verify through a recording, unless perhaps if I get into the occult and try to invoke it or something, which I have 0 experience or interest in.

True. I just have to find a camera that can record ghosts. I'm sure they have one of those on Amazon, right?

Can Leo also please provide references in MLA format. Thank you.

You think you understand what life is? If not, then why make such statements? And then why act and suffer as if those statements are true? Isn't that a waste of energy? Of course you will feel trapped. Your ideas of life feel very constricting and claustrophobic, because life is not an idea, and it's not gonna be captured by ideas, it's too big for that.

Dopamine deficiency, maybe. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22588-dopamine-deficiency

Ultimately, yes. You are being biased though. I'm sure there are many events which you don't relate to eachother, even though they are technically all related. There is infinite potential for what you can relate, and thus infinite potential for reasonings, and thus also infinite potential for bias. Just be mindful of this. I think you can see how easily this can go out of hand if you give all your mental reasonings so much significance. For an average person, they are unrelated, as in, they don't bother to create meaningful relations out of it. For someone like you, you are a bit more obsessive and open-minded, so you decide to create many relations out of it, and so certain troublesome thought patterns start to occur when you give those relations so much importance. If you see your ideas as they are - just relations - then you can live and co-exist peacefully. If you see them as something more than relations, then you've gone off course, because now you're believing in something that contradicts reality, and so resistance is created. Here's another relevant post:

Ironically, I think you did a pretty good job of communicating beauty. It is unfortunate that most people nowadays get obsessed with fabrications of experience rather than focusing on their actual immediate experience, thus never allowing them to actually make contact with their experience. I like to think of words or communications as pointers, like a finger that points to something, and then it's on you to direct your attention there, because obviously my finger can't shapeshift into that experience, it's just a finger. Good post!

Those are some interesting coincidences, but ultimately, it's just a reasoning that you made up. You can come up with an infinite amount of reasons. It will be very exhausting if you decided to entertain all of your reasons. There's no need to give it so much importance, especially since you've strung it together from so many unrelated events. Fearing death is normal, everyone does that. Dying is also normal, everyone goes through that. You're not being targeted by the universe or something, these are just normal everyday occurences.

This. So rare.

Yes, lots of them. Why aren't you experiencing your thoughts? Because they're just thoughts. Your experience is not God, but your thoughts are about God. Your thoughts can only get you so far, though. You're frustrated over some story about God that is being recycled in your head. Of course you are frustrated, because you have turned God into something very limited, so limited that it can fit snugly inside your tiny little human imagination. Maybe you should tweak the story a bit, since you're the director. It looks like the story you have right now feels a bit limiting and claustrophobic for you. That's a good start. Don't you feel better already?

Don't make me unimagine you.

The only thing unoriginal and uncreative are your own personal ideas of reality, which you are mistaking for reality.

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Ever since I was a teenager, the TV in my living room was always displaying scenes of torture and murder. I couldn't stop watching what was on the TV. I mean, what if the stuff in the TV happened to me one day? Everyone will go through something like that some day, right? If not in this life time, I will reincarnate into some other life, and what is happening in the TV will happen to me anyways. I can't bear the burden of having what is happening on the TV happen to me. There are many shows on the TV about reincarnation, so it's entirely possible that I would be transported to that type of reality as well. After all, there are no limits to reality. I could try commiting suicide to try and prevent what is happening inside the TV from happening to me, but I am here for eternity, so that won't work. Oh god, is there ANY way to escape from what is happening in the TV? It's impossible.

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