Carl-Richard

I just noticed that if I'm mouth-breathing while watching something on my computer, I get a slow running sensation in the back of my throat, and I think it's also making my ears better (although I'm not sure). I think mouth-breathing causes better ventilation of the Eustachian tubes, which might facilitate drainage of mucus. Think about how nose-breathing is almost always done with a closed mouth. With mouth-breathing, the nose is always open (unless clogged), which will allow for additional passive air flow.

Good place to put all the music, art and meme mega-threads.

Don't get hung up on the word. It can be perceived as a hangover when you go for months in between, because your receptors are much more sensitive and the effect becomes more drastic. That has been my experience. Prolactin is one reason why you for example feel tired after a meal.

It's probably because you do it often.

Isn't the Default mode network (or medial frontoparietal network) a better correlate?

It's not that. It's like Leech is saying; elevated prolactin levels. One of the functions of dopamine is to inhibit the release of prolactin. More prolactin = less dopamine action.

I'm not saying it's an invalid description. It's the conclusions you draw out from that. For example, I can say I'm dreaming up everything, including my current double ear infection which I'm taking NSAIDs for, but that doesn't really change much so to speak. That is what I mean by how it's closer to a general affirmation of "what is the case" rather than a means to say something about how specific events unfold within the dream. It's a bit like how ontological statements (what reality is) =/= scientific statements (how reality behaves), but it's also on the level of reality as a whole, so it's even less specific. Of course, calling it a dream is more useful than calling it a big banana, but even there, it's a pretty marginal difference.

A trap with the dreaming term (like all terms) is that you can project a mechanistic significance to it, like thinking you can use it to predict some specific outcome about the dream ("you're dreaming, therefore NDEs shouldn't be possible"), while in reality, it's just an affirmation of what is, which is not limited to anything specific. Dreaming is just the case.

When will you get that experience/consciousness is not located anywhere?

@acidgoofy Thanks. I tried some rain sounds last night and it worked. Btw, by Thomas the Tank Engine, I mainly meant the very loud sound of my heartbeat, not the tinnitus, although both are annoying.

I would like to think there has been a very slight improvement from yesterday, as my fever and sinuses have cleared up a bit. I might workout soon if the pain isn't too bad and try the sauna. I tried to go without NSAIDs today, but it was futile after breakfast. The pain isn't sitting as much in the ears as in and around the Eustachian tubes and a bit down my neck. The tinnitus is just a very exaggerated version of white noise, and it's in both of my ears now, as they're equally clogged up. Very annoying (that and the hearing loss). I've had some mild re-occuring earwax issues over the years and had some cleaning done when I was little, but this is definitely all inside the middle ear. If my ear is just clogged from earwax, it doesn't stop me from popping my ears. I've tried popping it so many times now with no success.

Pre-modernity is not separate from modernity. Given enough time, pre-modern tribes innovate new technology (like agriculture) and start growing past their local carrying capacity, culminating in modern society. Modernity is also by definition more complex, because innovation produces new things, and more things interacting means more complexity. Development (societal, biological, psychological) can be defined as the movement from lesser to higher complexity. If you define development as something else, then it starts to be more synonymous with change instead of growth. A better word for a purely cyclical model would be dynamics. A cycle is a dynamic, a movement between dualities, but there is no growth.

Why is a cyclical model better than a spiral one?

It isn't sustainable, because we naturally evolved past it. That is what SD describes.

Most people masturbate multiple times a week, but some never do it. The hangover effect depends on frequency: the longer you go between each time, the more lethargic you'll feel afterwards.

? And if you want a "problem" under Tier 2, it's all of the above ?

@thibault Purple: unite the tribe. - problem: our tribe is expanding and our neighbors are bothering us. Red: unite everyone under me. - problem: constant war, chaos reigns, empires fall. Blue: unite people under God. - problem: not all people accept God, and people disagree about what God is. Orange: unite people who are rational. - problem: not all people are rational, and rational people disagree with each other. Green: unite people who are not cruel. - problem: cruel is subjective, and not all people are not cruel. Tier 2: unite all people. - problem: all of the above.

It's a one-sided critique of the excesses of liberalism. You can take all his points and flip them back on themselves.

You're essentially conflating femininity with higher development. Red is more complex, capable, ambitious, oppurtunistic and forward thinking than Purple. To break out of the mold of your ancestors and claim your own sense of identity, to see beyond the horizon and claim what you desire, to rally troops, to conquer; it's a step up in development.

Yeah I saw pictures of that. Spooky. I don't know how I'll be able to sleep when my ear is like Thomas the Tank Engine.

That's fine by me. I've been there It's more about avoiding wild rants and weird behavior than a specific drug.

Posting while high or drunk is against the rules https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

A trip has a therapeutic aspect to it. You get to see an alternative perspective on yourself from a state of higher consciousness/wisdom, which is what the therapist tries to facilitate within the client. There is a lasting reduction in self-talk, the mechanism with which most psychological patologies are experienced and perpetuated. Awareness alone is curative.

You're treating this like a personal journal, which is why it will be moved to the appropriate section. Please don't call people idiots or make posts in all CAPS. https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

Pascal's wager is essentially about telling a non-believer to pretend that they believe in God; to lie, which is a sin