Thank you, I love it. The idea of "Even the concept of time is imagined..."
I always thought that we're in a holographic anything goes reality. Aside from what has been programmed we are capable of so much but negativity is so dense. But it still very much demonstrates how strong imagination is.
Yeah...I know it’s not the most concrete example....having done shrooms several times in the past for help with anxiety/depression issues (which consequently helped immensely), things you focus your eyes on are moving, morphing, changing...our imagination crosses into, or at least works in conjunction with our normal senses, giving you visual hallucinations.
There was one time though, when I went outside to look at the stars and I could see a huge planetary grid...and it never changed, which is highly unlike the experience of magic mushrooms...this was there in a stable way, I could turn my back and then look back again, and it wouldn’t change...I could literally see lines connecting the stars and over our planet...so even though you could stare at patterns of your ceiling changing and morphing, this “grid” that I saw would not change, no matter what I tried to do.
I even asked Sensiko (who I live with) if she could see it, it was so clear and stable.
She did not.
So either A.) It was only in my head, and was part of a hallucination, which is like having your imagination cross over into real life.
Or B.) It really does open the mind...which some think acts as a reducing valve of information, a filter so we don’t have too much information to process at once.
Either way...there it was, plain as day...or night...so I fully believe that people have huge ranges of how much their mind invents and how much is reality.
And cannot even imagine (key word there) how people who see constant hallucinations or aural hallucinations from schizophrenia can handle it on a constant basis?
It’s okay if you don’t need to function and you set up and prepared yourself for the experience, it’s another I would imagine, to be under constant assault by your imagination, with no clearly defined lines of what is accepted reality.
Anyhow...I would suggest that people read as much information about taking such things, and know what they are doing, and do it right, under the right circumstances - than to just nonchalantly take them.
For instance, I tapered off an antidepressant I took to help with depression and with sleep, because there could have been possible interactions.
So people should know what they are doing first.
(okay, there is my disclaimer)
Didn’t mean to go off on a tangent, but when you mentioned the universe as “holographic” that grid was the first thing to pop in my head.
What’s even more curious is - other people have seen the same thing...I bet the answer “why” would be quite interesting if we ever find out!
Interesting topic, thanks!