anon discovers depersonalization and maybe an undiagnosed mental health issue that’s been ongoing for some time
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sees the world objectively not subjectively
this is just like a video game I played
Is this how psychopaths go through life?
Yes anon. You've been one of them all along.
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
Googling "derealisation". Hating what you find.
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You ever start having a lucid dream, then something kicks in and it's not really a lucid dream anymore?
This is me with this thought. Quite liberating in the moment but hard to maintain to guide my actions for very long.
Edit: I should note I'm one of those freaks who play GTA V in first person pretty much exclusively (driving is tough, ngl), so this without the 'imagining in third person'.
I wouldn’t know. I’m just an NPC.
BUY SOMETHING WILL YA?!
mfw life imitates art
The subjective is objective because people exist
Yep.
(I don't know if it's sufficient, but I believe it's correlated)
That's why I only play first person games. My mental illnesses are local instead of floating about.
It's worth noticing that this is apparently the traditional far-eastern way of life; at least it was explained to me that this "realization" is a major part in traditional japanese meditation techniques.
It's also noteworthy that japanese people typically refer to themselves by their name, i.e. I would say "gandalf ate noodles yesterday" instead of "I ate noodles yesterday". I believe this stems from the idea that you look at yourself from the outside, just like you would look at anybody else. This is also the root cause for why there's traditionally such a strong "group think" in far-eastern countries. Because they differentiate way less between themselves and others, and often apply the "group perspective" to things, instead of the "individual perspective".
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