Carl-Richard

By time-restricted, I essentially mean no snacks (except an orange at the gym). I just eat my three meals and that's it. I'm aiming as I said to move my last meal earlier in the day, but I think I would have to make my second meal smaller for that to happen more or less naturally. When I do that, it would become more window-like.

I gotta say after doing stairmaster a couple of times for 20 mins at 160 bpm (after my weight training), it does not compare to sprints or 4x4 in brain effects. You need that lactate and BDNF boost and just pumping explosive energy into your brain 🧠 Maybe I have to do it for longer? 🤔

Sprint training is when you do maximal effort (95-100%) for a short period of time (20-30 seconds), ideally while running. Why maximal effort? Because solving difficult problems is like a sprint. Remember all the times you've read a difficult text and you feel like you're straining your brain while reading one particularly difficult sentence. Reading a sentence takes maximum a few seconds. Understanding or grasping the idea takes the time it takes to read the sentence and maybe a little more, but not much more. Either you grasp it there, or you don't. You can try again, sprinting again, but chances are, if you read it a few times and you still don't understand, you probably won't understand it for a while (you have to e.g. read some other text or take a break). You have to make the sprint then and there. You have to engage in that level of intensity then and there, or else you won't grasp it. Now, lower intensity training (e.g. moderate intensity cardio) might help you sift through more problems over a longer period of time and increasing your general work capacity, but the quality, the depth, the weight of the problem depends on your level of intensity. Thus training at maximum intensity will strongly increase your ability to solve difficult problems. Also, I've noticed sprint training makes your thinking incredibly fast (the rate of thinking), which is maybe not so unexpected either. That's probably also a big part of solving difficult problems, of being able to present a wide range of alternatives in a short amount of time before your attention runs out. Why ideally when running? Because you are biomechanically most equipped to expend the most energy per unit of time by moving your body in a way that resembles running. Running is not just about moving your feet; it involves the entire body, the upper body arguably just as much as the lower body. And you were built to run; there are millions of years of bipedal evolution driving your body to run, and therefore your body should expend the most energy by running (because energy spent running is essentially congruent to evolutionary fitness). Evolution fine-tuned your body to move your arms and legs in that specific way, so you should take advantage of that. So far, I've made the case on a purely mechanistic ground, call it "philosophy of physiology". But you can also make the case on more concrete scientific and neurophysiological grounds. Sprint training, or more accurately in this case "working out until failure" (which is best achieved by sprinting until failure), induces the production of lactic acid, which is converted to lactate, which is a neurotransmitter that is involved in brain function. It increases BDNF (which increases the growth of neurons), it's involved in monoamine neurotransmitter synthesis (dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine), it's even used as an energy source for neurons. However, sprinting until absolute failure is arguably not where you'll get the best overall effects, but rather when you try to sprint as fast as possible, because again, you want to strain your system at a maximum level and elevate your ceiling of intensity. It's an overall systemic adaptation towards maximal intensity that I believe should be the main goal. Again, there are other cases to be made for again moderate intensity cardio, or 4x4 training (for increasing VO2 max), or even lifting weights, as these all produce their own particular signatures in the body and which feeds into the brain in their own unique ways. If you want to be a well-rounded person, you want to engage in all of it from time to time. But if you care about solving difficult problems, if you care about "thinking fast", and if you care about feeding your brain a very beneficial nutrient and signalling molecule (lactate), you should consider incorporating some form of sprint training (ideally running sprints) into your workout routine. Other alternatives than running sprints are assault bike, normal bike. I find that I can only sprint around 1-2 times a week (on top of weight training 3.5 times a week) because it is very fatiguing. So keep that in mind, because fatigue will also inhibit cognitive functioning.

If I didn't value time-restricted eating, I would probably chomp blueberries all day.

No-self means that the chair over there in the corner is experienced just as strongly as yourself as what is seemingly inside this physical body. Rali made a very powerful video about this years ago, but all his videos are deleted.

I swear to God, I thought earlier today "is ChatGPT going to launch a new model soon?", and now I open ChatGPT, and they released ChatGPT-5 "And what I'd like to suggest, is that the fields of our minds stretch out far beyond our bodies; they stretch out invisibly, and our consciousness is related to and based on these fields" - Rupert Sheldrake, The 2023 Holberg Debate.

Here is the personal account, which I will also title "why process can sometimes be just as important as substance": I recently started taking a multivitamin. I noticed if I took it together with my other existing supplements (some minerals and fat-soluble vitamins), it made me have an upset stomach. Apparently, many nutrients compete for uptake in the stomach, so too many of them at once can cause trouble. So I decided to separate the multivitamin from the existing supplements. Initially, I started taking the multivitamin on an empty stomach and with water so I could absorb it before taking the other supplements with my morning meal (mostly eggs, so fat-based, good for my existing vitamins). This helped a bit, but the multivitamin still made my stomach a bit upset. So I decided I could eat the kiwi fruit I usually eat after my morning meal, before the morning meal, right before I take the multivitamin, to soften the landing in my stomach. This was also a good idea because the multivitamin I take is mostly water soluble, and a kiwi is mostly water and fiber. It also has a lot of vitamin C which helps with particularly iron uptake from the multivitamin. Then recently, I decided to change my meals a bit: increase the size of the morning meal and decrease the size of my two other meals. This was to make me eat earlier before going bed, because food and sleep can be antagonistic in many ways. So this meant going from 3 to 5 eggs in the morning, and also moving my blueberries from my evening meal to my morning meal. I started eating the blueberries right after my kiwi. This was going pretty well, but I thought, what if I can do better? So I researched blueberries and found out the anti-oxidants can reduce iron absorption by 80-90%. I also felt a bit stuffed after eating so much fruit before the rest of the morning meal, so I decided to place the blueberries right after my morning meal. Then I went to the gym, and either it's a big fluke or something else is going on, but I've not been so energetic in a long time. Maybe it was the iron? Maybe it was the anti-oxidants being freed up when they couldn't bind to the iron? Even if the story is bogus, the things I've demonstrated should be possible in principle and demonstrates the importance of process. I will maybe make a more general thread demonstrating this with also other topics than nutrition.

Yes there is a neurotic element, and you can approach anything more or less neurotically, but try being "open" when you're deficient in vitamin D. Next video I'll have black metal face paint on and stare 250% more intensely into the camera. As hard as I stared on that Danish mermaid statue that got banned for certain reasons 👁👁

In Enlightenment, no-self sticks with you from moment to moment. If you had realized no-self at that level, there would be nobody to do anything. And this is meant as literally as it can be meant. You wouldn't even be in control of your body.

@Bryanbrax Hi. Presenting ChatGPT answers, or other AI creations, without declaring that it's AI, is a no-no. https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

Anybody who has experienced severe heartbreak has felt the heart chakra. Anybody who has experienced severe repression of saying or doing what you want has felt the throat chakra.

I had a period where I was sort of numb, certainly dissociated, back when I was meditating very heavily and on very long streaks of nofap, at the beginning of university. Firstly, I had a severe ego death experience on weed which I tried to push down (and ironically also during my meditations, but I still kept meditating). The way out I figured was instead of ignoring thoughts and feelings during meditation (and in general) was to dive into them and magnify them (and stop with the extreme nofap). The combination of doing very energy intensifying things with also trying to push down the inevitable products (mystical experiences) lead me into this weird half disembodied state. Everything was happening very quickly, and there was like a lack of depth to things. I would go to parties and drink tons of alcohol and say a lot of weird things that in hindsight just sounded completely unhinged, and that if I had the sensitivity and emotional awareness (of my own and also other's emotions), and of course the lack of intense half-constipated energy (that played a role), I would come off as relatively normal. So if your symptoms are not related to chronic pain, it's likely they're related to something you're repressing. Or you could have some other physical illness causing it.

You don't have to respond to anything 😆 I recommend anybody to not respond to things they don't want to respond to. You didn't say anything except "not sure if I believe it", which is why I asked questions 😉 I just want somebody to validate my personal experiences 🥹

Do you link it to the chronic pain?

I know you don't like systems thinking and that you're lazy 😛 What's new? Your mom.

Why treat huge money like it's a bunch of small coins and not build something with it? Invest it into something that grows a particular thing. Instead of paying people to do "good spirituality", you can make spirituality better. You can steer society in the direction of spirituality. Money means work, and work means change. The more money, the more change you can make.

I showed my brother the Spiral Dynamics Stage Purple video which he listened to at work (he works with machineering metal parts) and he liked it. But I don't think he watched any more of them. Maybe I'll get him to watch the Stage Red one so he can start to see how things fit together. Grasping how Stage Red developed in the history of the world was an epiphany for me.

Somehow, a person is experiencing things very vividly independent of a functioning brain, independent of a physical mechanism that "explains" the experience (which is already a huge concession, to say that brain states explain experience, but I digress). The usual physicalist (materialist) assumption is that brain states (and related sensory faculties, sensory impressions, memories) cause mental experience. That is what I mean by physical mechanism in this case (and in this case, there doesn't seem to be a physical mechanism that explains the phenomena). We can make the distinction between saying that the world seems to follow certain rules or patterns and that the world seems to follow the rules of a billiard game (particles bumping into each other). If you think miracles can happen in the sense that it no longer follows the rules of a billiard game (e.g. non-local mind interactions), then you're not qualifying for the second criteria. Well, that too, but not even that: the mere fact that your holistic mental experience becomes decoupled from your physical senses (the localized limitations of your literal eyes and ears) and somehow you keep experiencing "sense content", as if you're a separate observer looking from elsewhere. I have had mild OBEs where I observe myself from just above myself, in a way that wouldn't be possible (or hard to explain) if I was only perceiving the world through my literal physiological eyeballs. There are too many stories about this with indeed cardiac arrest NDEs. Of course, idealists don't think there is a "literal" physical world, hence crypto-materialism. And also hence that you seem to substitute "physical" with essentially the sensory world; patterns and forms implemented in things you can smell and touch. The "literal physical world" is quite simple: atoms or sub-atomic particles (or the modern physics equivalent), that exist out there, that create the rules of the game. But the weird thing is that even the people who believe in all the weirdness of modern physics (non-locality, field interactions), when it comes to explaining everyday life (e.g. how we think, how we interact as humans), they suddenly become very Newtonian (billiard ball-like). Suddenly, they start to believe in these outdated rules. And they are outdated: modern physics has non-local interactions, it has fields rather than particles. We're seemingly just complacent with applying this outdated view to our everyday life because that is how unskilled we are in non-local/psychic aspects of life; we're generally not sensitive to things that are non-Newtonian. And if you are, you gaslight yourself to fit the paradigm; anomalies are just that — anomalies, and you have 100 years of Western psychology and cognitive science to help you: "you're just engaging in these 12 cognitive biases", etc. I feel like I'm reading the narrative arch of a hero's journey with these transformations I'm seeing, but hey, that's my goal. So yes, patterns happening in the sensory world. Hmm. You don't believe the science? So the expectation was 25% correct if purely due to chance, but it turned out to be 40% (15% more than expected). It was 571 trials. Let's toss a coin 571 times. We should expect roughly 50% tails. In 571 coin tosses, do you know how unlikely it is if we end up with 65% tails? 1 in 10 trillion according to ChatGPT. Do you think the scientists are making it up and fabricating their results? These results have been replicated independently by others. A 2025 meta-analysis that combined 26 datasets reported a hit-rate of ≈ 8.6 % above chance, p ≈ 10⁻⁷: https://journals.lub.lu.se/jaex/article/download/25934/24357/74647. Is everybody making it up?

I was specifically talking about opening e.g. the "Content I Posted In" page, and on top of the page, before scrolling, seeing that all the posts are new but that nobody has responded yet, and then having a feeling that indeed nobody has responded yet, and then scrolling down and confirming that feeling.

The way to study the non-physical is to propose principles, models and theories that describe and predict patterns (archetypes) of the non-physical. Rupert Sheldrake's theory of Morphic Resonance is one such a theory. But there is actually nothing special about such theories. They're on the same level as the Theory of Evolution: generalized principles about how the patterns of nature unfold. There are no particle accelerators or detectors involved in the Theory of Evolution, only observations about the regularities of nature. The only "new" thing with studying the non-physical is that you have to drop the assumption that reality works like a game of billiards where all interactions boil down to local collisions of particles.

I want you guys who use the "My Content" functions on the forum, particularly on your phone, to notice the times you open one of them and you can feel that nobody has responded to one of your posts even before you have scrolled down all the way to the last newest post. This is a form of precognition that I experience regularly.

Don't worry. Another mod once (allegedly) predicted that I would have a precognitive dream, which happened (they told me after the fact). One does not beat psych-ception, 👻^2

I had a rash in my achillies a few days ago but I think it was due to me biking too hard on the spinning bike and not being used to it I will keep an eye out 🫡

Context has never been more disappointing 😔

I just increased my eggs in the morning from 3 to 5 eggs (where the main goal was to reduce my other meals so that my last meal happens earlier, because sleep and food are antagonistic in many ways). I do actually notice a significant increase in mental clarity from it, maybe due to the choline, but maybe also due to me moving my blueberries from my evening meal to breakfast (anti-oxidants are also cognitive enhancers). Less food before bed and actually getting more calories from my breakfast could of course also be another factor. I also started using SELTIN salt (50% NaCl, 40% KCl, 9% MgSO4, some iodine), finally dealing with one of my last nutritional holes (if you can call it that): potassium. It seems to have a serotonergic effect on me, and my muscles feel smoother (I was also probably overdosing on sodium up until now, making me more adrenergic). I also seem to be holding less water weight, and my waist has shrunk, maybe also due to my stomach shrinking a bit after reducing my biggest meals by 25%.