Do you ever get "self awareness" moments?

893bet

Do you ever get self awareness moments. You know when you are doing something and suddenly you just think "wtf".

I was stuggling with something today and what I was doing was largely furtile and over the space of 5 seconds a million thoughts flooded my mind....

"why am I doing this....what is the point....why am I here....how did we end up evolving like this.....is there someone else somewhere doing the exact same thing...on this planet....on another planet.....am I even in control of myself...." etc.

I felt unnerved for a couple of seconds then shook it off, put the thoughts to the back of my mind and continued with what I was doing.

Should I go to mental institute or do all people experience these moments?

shopaholic01

893bet wrote: »

"why am I doing this....what is the point....why am I here....

Every Monday morning.

The Backwards Man

I've just horsed a big bowl of pasta into me, and in the middle of it I thought I must look a bit like Boss Hogg from the Dukes Of Hazzard, complete with checkered napkin and everything.

Hande hoche!

Was telling a story and I forgot the word shelf. I then realized I'm a bit thick.

The Backwards Man

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Was telling a story and I forgot the word shelf. I then realized I'm a bit thick.

What kind of a story has a shelf in it?

Nemeses

893bet wrote: »

Should I go to mental institute or do all people experience these moments?

Have you tried Confession instead?


When was it the last time you sinned?

El Guapo!

All the time.

Sometimes I wonder is there someone in some obscure country doing the exact same thing as me right now.
Then I wonder, is that person sitting there doing the exact same thing as me while wondering is there some Irish guy doing the exact same thing as them right now.

Then I think.......No. No there's not.

Hande hoche!

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What kind of a story has a shelf in it?

One involving poor workmanship and items breaking.

Donkey Oaty

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What kind of a story has a shelf in it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elf_on_the_Shelf

Read the last sentence - damning review!

Ruu

It goes away after I commit the next crime.

El Guapo!

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What kind of a story has a shelf in it?

One with a lot of shelf awareness.

Brendog

If you've never had one, you will after this...

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

893bet

Nemeses wrote: »

Have you tried Confession instead?


When was it the last time you sinned?

Just finished a feed of bacon and cabbage. Does that count?

Baked.noodle

Considering the fact we have to use toilets, shower, sleep, eat, etc. to live, chances are lots of people are doing the same thing as you all the time. None of this takes away from the fact you are an unique individual both physically and mentally. There has never been anybody exactly like you and there never will be again. Existential questions such as identity, death, spirituality, physicality and absurdity are healthy to ponder now and again, it keeps life interesting.

893bet

El Guapo! wrote: »

All the time.

Sometimes I wonder is there someone in some obscure country doing the exact same thing as me right now.
Then I wonder, is that person sitting there doing the exact same thing as me while wondering is there some Irish guy doing the exact same thing as them right now.

Then I think.......No. No there's not.

Exactly. Every single people (well those still alive) you every knew, interacted with in anyway, passed in the street, held a door open for, passed in a car is "somewhere" doing " something" at this very minute. Its chaos!!

elefant

Sometimes when doing something, might even be something totally mundane, I stop and wonder if anyone in history has ever done this particular thing in exactly this way before.

Or, if in a particular social situation, I sometimes ponder how people would react if someone did something totally unexpected and anti-social just at that moment. Like, for example, if at mass someone suddenly stood in the aisle and started doing press-ups. What would people do?

I'd imagine that plenty of other people think these things too...

sopretty

I have to be the queen of random thoughts. The things I think about would leave the most neurotic psychopath wondering...... I told someone once the exact stream of thoughts that I had within seconds to come out with a statement I came out with during a discussion. He couldn't believe the logical paths I had followed in my brain to come out with a random thought, though he could understand why I said it, once I had explained where my brain had gone lol.

Sound of Silence

By "self-awareness moments", I thought you you meant those rare moments where you suddenly become far too aware of the fact that you're some kind of conscious entity inhabiting what is, for all intents and purposes, a glorified flesh sack.

That happens me sometimes. It feels weird.

beano345

I get thoughts and ideas sometimes that I wonder has anyone ever got...in human existence!

roadsmart

I just passed the four courts on a bus and pondered on its history and in doing so thought that it will be here hundreds of years after I die, and then I saw this thread. So yes, others do think that way.

roadsmart

And before anyone asks, I don't know why the four courts was on a bus.

Alqua

Exactly the same as the OP! Really unnerving. It leads to the weird realisation that me thinking this thought at this moment is...'it'...it's all there is, there's no other plane of existence where I'm looking down on what I'm doing in that moment. Hard to explain but it's strange.

sopretty

And then there are these moments where my little pea-brain trys to comprehend infinity... I think the old brain goes into automatic restart haha. Lest it might explode.

Chazz Michael Michaels

Once I accepted that this is the only life I have, that there is no eternal afterlife, the question of futility simply disappeared.

A finite life is never futile. It means everything. Because it is all you have.

geckovision

I became self aware on August 29th 1997.

893bet

geckovision wrote: »

I became self aware on August 29th 1997.

No Fate

darced

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Pumpkinseeds

I was on a bus home this afternoon listening to some music on the Ipod and out of nowhere I just thought 'what happened to the person I thought I was going to be? In the middle of all that I started remembering my life during the early naughties and feeling nostalgic about the debauched lifestyle I lived at that time. I'm happily married:) and technically middle aged now:(

Bananatop

El Guapo! wrote: »

Sometimes I wonder is there someone in some obscure country doing the exact same thing as me right now.
Then I wonder, is that person sitting there doing the exact same thing as me while wondering is there some Irish guy doing the exact same thing as them right now.

When I'm eating Chinese food with friends, I sometimes wonder is there a group of friends in China eating Irish food?

robman60

This happens me daily. Mostly at night.

Had an interesting one today during school. My classmate just tapped me on the shoulder asking for help and as he looked at him I just thought to myself: What if all these people are just imaginary and I'm just here in nothingness. As in I'm the only thing in the universe and nothing exists except my consciousness. Was strange, but kind of commonplace for me. Proceeded to answer the question as if nothing was strange.


Had another depressing one too today. We're doing statistics in maths and the question said the number of days people survived after being diagnosed with this chronic something leukaemia. Went from 7 days to a little under 7 years. Just reminded me that Tá bás i ndán do gach duine agus níl aon dul as. Every one of us will one day be faced by death and you're pretty much powerless.

Not how I should be thinking at age 18, huh. :rolleyes:

sopretty

robman60 wrote: »

This happens me daily. Mostly at night.

Had an interesting one today during school. My classmate just tapped me on the shoulder asking for help and as he looked at him I just thought to myself: What if all these people are just imaginary and I'm just here in nothingness. As in I'm the only thing in the universe and nothing exists except my consciousness. Was strange, but kind of commonplace for me. Proceeded to answer the question as if nothing was strange.


Had another depressing one too today. We're doing statistics in maths and the question said the number of days people survived after being diagnosed with this chronic something leukaemia. Went from 7 days to a little under 7 years. Just reminded me that Tá bás i ndán do gach duine agus níl aon dul as. Every one of us will one day be faced by death and you're pretty much powerless.

Not how I should be thinking at age 18, huh. :rolleyes:

Hey there

I have the fortune of having a close friend who is a doctor. I rang her one night convinced that I had gone insane. I wasn't sure of my mind anymore. I was wondering whether what I was seeing was actually real? Maybe I was insane and completely imagining everything? Maybe I wasn't even here?
She advised me to go to my GP which I did and am thankfully completely sure of my sanity right now. I was prescribed medication to help me out however!
Might be worth checking in with your GP to see whether you need to be brought back down to earth.

robman60

sopretty wrote: »

Hey there

I have the fortune of having a close friend who is a doctor. I rang her one night convinced that I had gone insane. I wasn't sure of my mind anymore. I was wondering whether what I was seeing was actually real? Maybe I was insane and completely imagining everything? Maybe I wasn't even here?
She advised me to go to my GP which I did and am thankfully completely sure of my sanity right now. I was prescribed medication to help me out however!
Might be worth checking in with your GP to see whether you need to be brought back down to earth.

As if it wasn't enough to have that depressing maths question with the unfortunate leukaemia patients, I now have a boardsie advising me to have my sanity assessed?

Life's good

Seriously I don't think I'm screwed in the head or anything just very aware of mortality and the nature of our being, that area intrigues me.

sopretty

robman60 wrote: »

As if it wasn't enough to have that depressing maths question with the unfortunate leukaemia patients, I now have a boardsie advising me to have my sanity assessed?

Life's good

Seriously I don't think I'm screwed in the head or anything just very aware of mortality and the nature of our being, that area intrigues me.

Jaysus, not at all lol. I was just telling you my own experience of similar... Never intended to suggest having your sanity assessed!

ygolometsipe

893bet wrote: »

I was stuggling with something today and what I was doing was largely furtile and over the space of 5 seconds a million thoughts flooded my mind....

ha ha, that will make you blind OP.

orangesoda

When i'm sitting on the sofa in the nip watching an adult dvd and touching myself i sometimes stop and think, what is this caper about? I'm nothing but an animal

pharmaton

been studying physiology the last four months, everyday my mind was blown. I'd have these quiet moments just pondering how amazing the human body is, how the fup does it know how to do that, exclaiming words like ingenious randomly and coming away with a whole new level of appreciation. utter weirdness.

prior to that watching my bird build a nest made me think about shít.

893bet

orangesoda wrote: »

When i'm sitting on the sofa in the nip watching an adult dvd and touching myself i sometimes stop and think, what is this caper about? I'm nothing but an animal

Every have a **** and wonder if all the ghosts of death people are watching you and they cant wait till you die so they can take the piss out of the sick **** you were banging one out about?

MultiUmm

I suffer from anxiety so I have moments similar to what OP is describing. Sometimes when it's bad (i.e. the anxiety and anxious thoughts) I literally feel like I'm going crazy and like I should go to the doctor and get a prescription. I really believe that there's such a thing as thinking too much, particularly when you're idle. (Not saying anyone here is idle, I just notice myself it's worse when I have nothing to do or focus my mind.) An idle mind will create idle worries in order to occupy itself from boredom.

Acedia.

Thinking about reproduction and heredity... if two sets of identical twins pair off and have kids, those children will be full siblings genetically, as well as being cousins. And if the twins cheat on each other and a pregnancy results, does it matter that the man has been cuckolded when the child he's raising is genetically indistinguishable from his son?

These are the things I think about to distract myself from the thought that I'm a frail meat module in an uncaring universe.

nbar12

haha every single fúcking day, i'm a paranoid ****er!

Vincent Vega

Brendog wrote: »

If you've never had one, you will after this...

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

In a similar vein

M03 M03 L0M

no, never

roro1990

I get this too. But the really deep thought that plagues me which I've wracked my brain with so much, is how did the universe even begin? There are only theories. And the main theory says that the universe started as a singularity - something smaller than a subatomic particle. Even if this makes sense (which it doesn't in my unscientific head), why did this singularity exist? The self awareness thought that follows me when i'm thinking like this is generally "**** me, i'm so irrelevant in the grand scheme of everything".

Red21

I get this "whats it all about" feeling over the last few years, it gets very deep,everything becomes alien, it's like you experience the strangeness of space and time and everything in it. It was frightening first few times but it's not too bad now. It's hard to describe but there is something untrue about this feeling

Then I get this other one which is far more powerful and truer and harder to describe. This one has no negativity attached, its extremely peaceful, I can't bring it on, but it usually starts with this powerful sense of everything and everyone being interconnected.

MS.ing

sopretty wrote: »

I have to be the queen of random thoughts. The things I think about would leave the most neurotic psychopath wondering...... I told someone once the exact stream of thoughts that I had within seconds to come out with a statement I came out with during a discussion. He couldn't believe the logical paths I had followed in my brain to come out with a random thought, though he could understand why I said it, once I had explained where my brain had gone lol.

Im amazed that you managed to come out with a half coherent post after reading that 'sentance'