Curious: it sounds like maybe you don’t think any experiences have neutral valence? Consider things your mind-body complex routinely perceives, but that don’t (typically) get automatically promoted to your conscious attention; what it’s like to wear pants or breathe the air in your own home, for example.
Or perhaps that kind of subtlety is simply unhelpful in context? I’ve never experienced the kind of altered state you seem to be trying to navigate more skillfully, and everybody I’ve spoken to (perhaps predictably) describes it in different terms, so I find it hard to get a bead on what might be too much depth for the situation.
I definately identify with that description of neutral experience. I suspect removing ”, positive and negative” might make it read a little easier.
And yeah, it’s an interesting balance between a straight forward sentence, and one that still fully beings forward the the idea in my mind. I’d like to include Perception, Memory, and an experience of Time also but I either don’t have an intuitive enough abstraction of them or can’t think of a sentence that brings it forward.
Perception, memory, and time might be especially tricky in a sufficiently altered state. I’m told it’s sometimes extremely difficult to know what the mind is making up. What aspects of each would be most helpful to remember when you might not be sure what (if any) of your current experiences correspond with the territory outside your own brain?
Curious: it sounds like maybe you don’t think any experiences have neutral valence? Consider things your mind-body complex routinely perceives, but that don’t (typically) get automatically promoted to your conscious attention; what it’s like to wear pants or breathe the air in your own home, for example.
Or perhaps that kind of subtlety is simply unhelpful in context? I’ve never experienced the kind of altered state you seem to be trying to navigate more skillfully, and everybody I’ve spoken to (perhaps predictably) describes it in different terms, so I find it hard to get a bead on what might be too much depth for the situation.
I definately identify with that description of neutral experience. I suspect removing ”, positive and negative” might make it read a little easier.
And yeah, it’s an interesting balance between a straight forward sentence, and one that still fully beings forward the the idea in my mind. I’d like to include Perception, Memory, and an experience of Time also but I either don’t have an intuitive enough abstraction of them or can’t think of a sentence that brings it forward.
Perception, memory, and time might be especially tricky in a sufficiently altered state. I’m told it’s sometimes extremely difficult to know what the mind is making up. What aspects of each would be most helpful to remember when you might not be sure what (if any) of your current experiences correspond with the territory outside your own brain?