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How broadly can it be applied? Anything outside of direct experience must be imagined, because it is outside of your direct experience. It's that simple. If something isn't in your direct experience, then it has to be imagined, and so your direct experience of it is just an imagination of it. They do exist, as imagination. It's a recontextualization. First you believe that your imagination is something other than imagination, and then you realize it is just imagination and nothing else. Basically, seeing it for what it is. Yes, I am imagining that, and rightfully so, as "others" are indeed imagined. Just because I imagine something, that doesn't mean that thing is invalidated. There's nothing wrong with imagining things. It is delusional, however, to see imagination as something other than imagination. "Others are imaginary" is simply an observation. "You're imagining that other people are imaginary" is also an observation which is true. "Others are not imaginary" is an observation of something that is not observed, but rather it is only imagined to be observed. In other words, they are imagining that imagination is something other than imagination, which is delusion. You can imagine things which are accurate to your experience, and things that are not accurate to your experience. You can even imagine that "imagination is imagination", which is accurate. Or, you can imagine that "imagination is not imagination", which is clearly inaccurate to your experience. We are just trying to use imagination to accurately point to our direct experience, that's all. In this scenario we are using words, which are essentially symbols that make you imagine things. The sentence "That apple is red" is a pointer to a direct experience of an apple that is red. The sentence "That apple is blue" is a pointer which points to something which is not experienced, and thus only exists as imagination. Notice that the second statement, although it only exists as imagination, it is trying to convey that it exists outside of imagination when in reality it doesn't. The idea that it exists outside of imagination is also something that is imagined. That's the nuance that's being pointed out when someone says something is imaginary. It's not that imagining something is wrong or self-invalidating, it's that a lot of people can't tell imagination apart from what isn't imagination, which is why it might be repeated so much that certain things are imaginary.

Our imagination is so powerful, switches our level of awareness just like that

This is so true. I don't even view people in authority as human anymore, they're more like machines or robots that need to always be obeyed no matter what, no matter how ridiculous the rules. They are always so formal and punctual to a point of ridiculousness, as if they are a robot. Like, oh, you're 5 minutes late for class? Time to get punished. Oh, you couldn't make it today because you were sick? Time to get punished. Very Kafkaesque stuff. The one size fits all approach is very alienating, especially when you get chastised for questioning it.

Intellectualization, mental masturbation, unearned wisdom. Solipsism is a big one, which relates to the previous aforementioned traps.

You're imagining "time", along with "others", and "yourself". All of these exist through the same medium, imagination. "You" are not conscious. Humans are not conscious. Consciousness imagines "you" and "others" as something that is conscious. Humans and others are a part of consciousness, not the source of consciousness. If time doesn't exist, there is no "same time" either. Notice that, experientially, there is no difference between whether they exist at the same time or a different time. The only difference is what you imagine. Cause time is all about imagination.

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That's pretty good, thanks

playing video games is pretty great. especially with friends. taking a warm shower sleeping, or restfulness, as sadghuru tends to make that distinction lol in general, any sort of flow state or engaging in something you're passionate about Listening to music

Yes, at my lowest moments, I have thought similar things. Like, I didn't sign up for this. Where's the terms and agreements? I don't remember giving my signature. Let me sue God. God needs to give me infinite love as compensation in the court order. It is pretty great. Your only job there is to just relax and fall away into "nothingness". I've been there for a few seconds by accident, after I was waking up from my sleep. It's called "turiya" or "pure consciousness" in spiritual circles. It is a very insightful state of consciousness to reach but it is seemingly hard to get there. You can enter some weird states of consciousness through sleep. Maybe this is achieved by realizing birth and death don't exist outside of imagination. Not possible to cease existing, but, you can experience absolute nothingness while existing. It's a paradox to the finite mind, but actually possible. You can experience the absence of all sensations and qualia, which is the state I referred to before, called turiya or pure nothingness. Consciousness doesn't need any experience or sensation inside it to exist, it is literally nothingness with the capacity to somehow exist.

idk shit about cigarette addiction in specific, but any health related addiction I had was always ultimately fixed when I took a look at the long term health effects of it. Go to google and look up the lungs of a cigarette smoker. Some people have also apparently quit from just 1 shroom trip. Bottom line, smoking is not sustainable dude. You're gonna cause irreversible damage to your lungs and probably take years off your lifespan. Luckily, the lungs do a good job of quickly starting to heal themselves after you quit. The best time to quit is always NOW. Go find some subreddit about people trying to quit smoking as well, there will probably be useful information and you will get motivated as well. This is just one I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/stopsmoking/

Never expected such a video from Casually Explained haha. Really well articulated

If you're an introvert, you should have contemplated all the pros and cons already. But really, it's just that introverts are more likely to have social anxiety or be socially inept, as a result of how they view the world and comprehend social situations. Key word more likely. You can be an introvert and still master social skills. Owen Cook has a nice video:

What do you mean by erasing it? Like, replacing it or rendering it useless?

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By itself, I like colors in the spectrum of blue the most, just cause I think it's calming and looks cool. Something interesting to note is that most people seem to statistically prefer the color blue. My wardrobe looks more like dark red, black, or dark blues. I think those colors are distinctive but don't stick out too much. The only bright colors I'll wear are yellow or white. Other bright colors I think look too tacky or stupid for whatever reason, It makes me stick out too much. It's too jarring. I might be willing to wear softer pastel colors, like peach or something, just cause I think they look cool and unique. They are really colorful but at the same time don't stick out that much, it has a softer edge. There's also something soothing about them to me. I had no idea I had so many reasons for choosing my colors until I had to formulate it in this response, interesting

Maybe sad and lonely people are more likely to seek it, but I don't think It's necessary. I mean, I wasn't sad or lonely, just curious.

What does it mean for something to exist? How do you distinguish something that exists from something that doesn't exist?

Have you ever gotten really invested in a video game? Maybe you grinded for some item in the game or something. Time went by so quickly, and you could easily spend lots of time on it. That's what passion/life purpose feels like, but it has to be something to do with your career or monetary gain. I've yet to pinpoint something like that as well though.

Like I said, no need to insert anything, it can be achieved by putting pressure on the perineum externally. It's much easier to feel if you are already aroused, maybe after some edging. When you edge or become aroused, you get prostatic fluid that builds up, which makes the prostate more easier to find and feel. You just keep repetitively pushing on the perineum, like you're fingering it. Be intuitive with it, there should be some pleasurable sensation that builds there, and continuously builds towards a climax. It's like a warm sensation, almost like you have to pee. FYI, a prostate orgasm is physiologically different from a normal orgasm, you will only have prostatic fluid come out instead of actual semen, since only the prostate is being stimulated. Doing it internally seems kinda unnecessary to me, although I've never done it that way. I tried but never really got anywhere. It just seems like more of a hassle when you can do it externally. You can try that if you want though I guess, but I don't have any tips.

It did take me many tries to actually figure out how to do it, so yeah good luck.

It is possible to climax just from thoughts alone or even just stimulating erogenous zones like your nipples. I'm not sure how much different doing it that way feels, but it is certainly more interesting and maybe more satisfying when you finally achieve it, although I can't point out a distinct difference in sensation. It's something more novel, at least. Also, prostate orgasms feel way better than normal orgasms IMO, but can be hard to achieve at the beginning. FYI, no need to put something up your ass to stimulate the prostate, most people don't know this but it's possible to achieve externally through massaging the perineum. As a baseline, if you want a really good orgasm, try abstaining for like 2 or more days before-hand. If you wanna experiment with climaxing through less direct things, you probably need a solid 3 days or more to gain enough sexual sensitivity. And by "solid", I mean, no edging or looking at pictures and stuff, it does hinder progress, and might even make sexual addiction worse.

You're also apparently imagining an "I" to feel alone. If others aren't real then you aren't either since "you" exists through the same mechanism as "other".

Honestly the most puzzling thing to me is WTF happens after death. Yeah, death in the sense of non-existence isn't real, sure, I'm never gonna stop existing, but consciousness seems to be perfectly capable of wiping memories. If memories of myself are wiped, I'm basically dead aren't I. Like, think back to when you were in a dream and living the life of some dream character, you basically didn't even exist at that point anymore, you were just living life as dream character with no knowledge of your existence in the "waking state". Relatively speaking, what is gonna happen to your relative ego identity after death? God knows.

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