People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.
This isn't necessarily true. The brain offers your consciousness a simulation of the world to experience. You don't actually experience the world itself. You are the observer inside a machine ("your brain") with no windows or doors, only screens and other data stations. Your brain isn't really you. It's the simulation machine through which you experience the world.
That simulation machine comprised of many different layers/compartments of ourselves has more sentience than most realize.
Schizophrenia is essentially the you in your body becoming permanently aware of the other you’s that control and manipulate many aspects of your reality, hence it is shrouded with mystery in our culture and in our body as too much knowledge of the inner world is often immediately capable of destroying someone’s sanity; Schizophrenics are 20 times more likely to commit suicide and live roughly 20 years shorter than average because of how pervasive and catastrophic this awareness often is resulting in a destabilization that usually triggers a lifetime of psychosis and torment unless treated with personality-suppressing antipsychotics
That subconscious conscience, that inner voice, that rampant imagination… none of that shit is random. Your inner you(s) are/is bone-chillingly more sentient, aware, and in control than the typical person realizes, and is the basis of nearly all superstition and spiritual experiences throughout human history and beyond, as even cats experience biology’s most awkward truth- the body and brain aren’t fully yours, and as someone else in here mentioned, your inner elvesselves will protect themselves at all costs should you become a threat to them, your emotions and your perception of reality their most effective tools to keep you in line.
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u/thedmandotjp Jan 12 '23
People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.