Comment by 🍀 gritty
Re: "Developing a Strange Psychosis"
I think given a long enough timeline, any mind can develop a psychosis of some kind.
why did you start with these visual exercises?
Having grown in a small town and now living in a highly congested area, I often think of the effects population density has on society, psychology, and the general culture / collective mind of various communities.
May 01 · 6 days ago
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by communicating online (lets say sharing what is may first for us) we sort of learn to look at the world from the other person's perspective.
🚀 stack [OP] · May 01 at 13:10:
I find myself often waiting in the streets of NY for a family member or something... Having a few minutes to kill is not enough to do deeper thinking about anything, and to avoid worrying about something stupid like a news item or politics, I practice some meditation-like activity.
This one is particularly sticky for me. It started as a pure 'rendering' exercise, but then I started adding more elements - sunglasses, gait, trying to feel the weight of the backpack, etc...
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · May 01 at 19:08:
This is an amazing idea for a lot of reasons. I imagine it doesn't make you look more normal when you're 'spacing out', but you're beginning to imagine the thing-as-itself rather than the thing-as-you-see-it. I bet those are each one word in German. Ach. We do quite a bit of predictive/imaginative thinking in assuming that parts-of-things exist outside of our sight. It's a correct assumption, but still an assumption based on patterns.
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Developing a Strange Psychosis — For a while I've been playing a visualization game "Rotate a Cow". Basically you picture a cow and spin it around as if it was on a CAD screen. Over the last year I've been trying a different experiment, and it is backfiring. In this one you place yourself into another person's head, and look at the world from their perspective. It is purely visual -- you are just trying to see what they would see. You can focus on a passerby in the street and "invade" their…