Thoughts led astray

Discussion in 'Off Topic Area' started by Ero-Sennin, Sep 3, 2013.

  1. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    This morning I woke up and went to the bathroom. After turning the light on I began to relieve myself and during that time I took notice of the light. In my mind I thought that the light was pretty far out. It's just a piece of translucent material with some gas in it and a little wire where a current of energy is looping around, which produces light. After flushing I started walking to the couch and it just really hit me that something so common (a light) is probably not recognized for its worth by most people and that most people aren't capable of constructing anything like a light bulb to emit light. It's something we use every day and most people would have an extremely hard time without one, yet as simple as it is it is a very complex object for a lot of people if they had to produce their own sources of light beyond a fire.

    So as I sat down on my couch I started thinking about all kinds of things that people take for granted. A combustion engine, their clothing, a table, their refrigerator, a plethora of things. All of these things most individuals couldn't make or produce themselves without great effort and probably a ton of failed attempts, if they could produce these things at all.

    Then I started playing a game on my iPad, realizing I have no idea how the thing works. An overwhelming feeling of helplessness washed over me. I live in a world where I hardly understand anything around me and I'm not alone.

    I'll never use the bathroom in the morning again.



    Where is the strangest place your thoughts have led you out of nowhere?
     
    Last edited: Sep 3, 2013
  2. CosmicFish

    CosmicFish Aleprechaunist

    I both love and hate those odd states of mind.

    I made the mistake of reading a philosophy book recently and was reminded that the image of the world that we think we see through our eyes is really just a construct of our brains. I got thinking thoughts like: there's no such thing as colour in the outside world. It's the way our brains present to our consciousness the nerve impulses that result from EM waves hitting our retinas. From that it occurred to me that all of our senses are like this. And from that I realised that even though we're fully immersed in the universe, we will never really perceive it as it is. We're like kids who are being fed a dumbed down representation of reality by an over-protective parent.
     
  3. shootodog

    shootodog restless native

    The bathroom at 3 am seems to be my place of zoning out into the universe.
     
  4. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    No lie, that's exactly the time I woke up and went to the bathroom.
     
  5. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    Ahhh, Grasshopper has awoken! :hat:

    I had these thoughts some years back. It started with me realizing that I, and most everyone I know, cannot even make food. :eek: It quite changed my entire outlook on life.
     
  6. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    It's crazy when emotions are invoked from thoughts like these. The thought process wasn't really anything new to me, the wave of emotion attached to it was an uncommon experience though. "Feeling" and understanding vs. just knowing about it is a whole different ball game. Getting an emotional kick out of thinking things doesn't happen all the time for me though, it's usually thoughts that just run amok and all of a sudden I feel like I have an understanding vs. just knowing about something when it happens. What's one to do but keep hop hopping though :p
     
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  7. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    One reason I love to engage in bushcraft and backwoods activity is because it takes me away from "civilisation" and reminds me that I have far more than I actually need

    That said I do have "whoah!" moments when I look at cellphones....I mean they can literally do ANYTHING in technological terms and its in the palm of my hand.
     
  8. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    I hit "zen level over 9000" when I do hanging side splits (aka chair splits) with a heavy barbell. I have to not concentrate to concentrate (does that even make sense?) I "feel" my body talking to me, saying where I should adjust my position, but I have very vivid thoughts about stuff like world events.

    Odd. Very odd.
     
  9. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    There is something one of my health/fitness instructors said about what you're talking about. Something like "kinesiological intelligence" or something, in layman's terms "in tune with the body." That and studies show that some people have a higher physical intelligence naturally which is why some people tend to be more athletic and whatnot. It was pretty interesting stuff, to know that "feeling" you have about how to train or what to do is a kind of intelligence.

    I think about stuff during working out as well. I've gotten some strange looks before because I'll get upset and start talking to myself about it with a mean tone :p
     
    Last edited: Sep 4, 2013
  10. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    Oh wow, this got bumped to philosophy. My intention was off topic humor on a shared and common happening, not in depth discussion :p.

    Dangit, now I feel obligated to post stuff that has some sort of real meaning to it now. I do not agree to these new standards! They have been thrust upon me unwillingly!

    (of course it's whatever the MODs want and I'm not really complaining, I was just surprised :p)
     
  11. Dave76

    Dave76 Valued Member

    Or just start skipping the wake and bake?
     
  12. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    I've had so much meat product the last day and a half I have yet to see a wake and bake. I'm not looking forward to when it's done preheating :cry:
     
  13. John R. Gambit

    John R. Gambit The 'Rona Wrangler

    It's so weird that we walk around with personal computer from ten years ago in our hands. It's gonna be even weirder when tomorrow's super computers are so small they're implanted into our bodies.
     
  14. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    The police are going to have contact lenses that can pick up heart rate, anxiety levels, and perspiration which will immediately make them suspicious of you and start observing/trailing you. That's just the police, imagine what the NSA will have!
     
  15. John R. Gambit

    John R. Gambit The 'Rona Wrangler

    Very, very discrete butt probes?
     
  16. AndrewTheAndroid

    AndrewTheAndroid A hero for fun.

    Light bulbs don't use gas and electricity. They are powered by hate and rage harvested from the collective conscious of the extinct Elve race. And everyone knows that tablets work on prayer. Moses even had two of them for his 10 commandments app.
     
  17. 47MartialMan

    47MartialMan Valued Member

    Normal to turn on the light first and then relieve, many of times, it was in reverse procedure.
     
  18. shootodog

    shootodog restless native

    Most of my meditation is done while running hills in the morning.
     
  19. Heraclius

    Heraclius BASILEVS Supporter

    Occasionally when walking through the suburbs, I think about all of the other people around me. I mean, every house I walk by has a family living in it. A group of people with lives just as complex as mine. Just thinking about all of the living going on around me is staggering.

    And the same thing if you pass a stranger in the street. They just seem like a part of the scenery, but they're all coming from somewhere, all going somewhere. They have all of their joys and worries, that you'll never know about. They've got all of their relationships that you're not privy to. Everyone you meet is walking around with their own little Universe, just as big and important as yours, and all you're doing is brushing past its edges.
     
  20. Heraclius

    Heraclius BASILEVS Supporter

    If you're waking up at 3 in the morning and then sitting down and playing games on your iPad, you deserve all the negative thoughts you get :p
     

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