08-12-2010, 01:21 PM
Hey 3d sunset.
I am not certain if this syndrome is comparable. I never encountered anyone with it. I have encountered people experiencing hallucinations before though.
There are in my opinion two types of people who experience something out of this world... First the looneys, they see and what they see makes no sense. They do not see the difference between the real and fairy realm and keep mixing them up. If you were to point at a fairy and ask is this real? They'd say yes and could not doubt it. These people have a damaged ego structure or in some cases neurological problems. The hard and software is broken.
There's another version people who know precisely what is normal, and who figure out precisely where what they see is out of the ordinary. If you point at the fairy and ask if it's real they'd say (probably laughing) something like "not in the regular way, but it has it's own realness"... But they would indicate that they realize it's not regular. No mix ups. Their ego structures and brain, hard and software function perfectly, they just see something outside the regular reality and their system can cope with it. Easily if these people have these experiences more often.
This is part of why I prefer to befriend the ego than kill it... In my humble opinion it serves a purpose that we can't do without while in the 3d world.
I think I got that notion from the shamen I worked with. They know the difference between the everyday real and the surreal and they know you can't just mix them up. There are analogies we can learn from but you can't take it literally all the time... It's better when in doubt to accept it as an enigma. In summary, you learn to deal with the paranormal, it's not a given that we can cope with it, the naive interpretation often leads to chaos. Though more people than I'd thought at first can easily deal with it. I think the human mind enjoys entertaining the impossible. It doesn't stress us as much as one might think. Perhaps that's why video games are so popular.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome might be the same, or it might not be. I studied to be a psychologist. But unfortunately that does not make me an expert in every disorder
I don't doubt however that many people active in the occult could be classified under this. Psychology has only a vague awareness of abnormal realities.
It reminds me of a strange fact about psychosis. There are people who run into a psychosis once in their lives. Due to medical circumstances, heavy stress or whatever. Those people typically respond in one or two ways. Either they fight it, trying to get it out of their heads. Or they accept it, and don't worry too much about it, learning to see the difference... The former often have more, the latter often have less trouble later in life. The latter actually function better because of it. They tend to master situations. Whatever they are. This to me is the strength demonstrated by an adaptive healthy ego.
I am not certain if this syndrome is comparable. I never encountered anyone with it. I have encountered people experiencing hallucinations before though.
There are in my opinion two types of people who experience something out of this world... First the looneys, they see and what they see makes no sense. They do not see the difference between the real and fairy realm and keep mixing them up. If you were to point at a fairy and ask is this real? They'd say yes and could not doubt it. These people have a damaged ego structure or in some cases neurological problems. The hard and software is broken.
There's another version people who know precisely what is normal, and who figure out precisely where what they see is out of the ordinary. If you point at the fairy and ask if it's real they'd say (probably laughing) something like "not in the regular way, but it has it's own realness"... But they would indicate that they realize it's not regular. No mix ups. Their ego structures and brain, hard and software function perfectly, they just see something outside the regular reality and their system can cope with it. Easily if these people have these experiences more often.
This is part of why I prefer to befriend the ego than kill it... In my humble opinion it serves a purpose that we can't do without while in the 3d world.
I think I got that notion from the shamen I worked with. They know the difference between the everyday real and the surreal and they know you can't just mix them up. There are analogies we can learn from but you can't take it literally all the time... It's better when in doubt to accept it as an enigma. In summary, you learn to deal with the paranormal, it's not a given that we can cope with it, the naive interpretation often leads to chaos. Though more people than I'd thought at first can easily deal with it. I think the human mind enjoys entertaining the impossible. It doesn't stress us as much as one might think. Perhaps that's why video games are so popular.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome might be the same, or it might not be. I studied to be a psychologist. But unfortunately that does not make me an expert in every disorder
I don't doubt however that many people active in the occult could be classified under this. Psychology has only a vague awareness of abnormal realities.It reminds me of a strange fact about psychosis. There are people who run into a psychosis once in their lives. Due to medical circumstances, heavy stress or whatever. Those people typically respond in one or two ways. Either they fight it, trying to get it out of their heads. Or they accept it, and don't worry too much about it, learning to see the difference... The former often have more, the latter often have less trouble later in life. The latter actually function better because of it. They tend to master situations. Whatever they are. This to me is the strength demonstrated by an adaptive healthy ego.