Dissociative experiences reveal how easily an entire personality can be shed, replaced with a new one.
What it doesn't reveal is that it can be trained. You can practice it.
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(Of course, I should mention that a limiting factor in my own thinking is that I'm often Not Crazy Enough, so there's that.)
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Ane thing I've experienced a lot lately, a sort of splintered mind effect.
The everyday Sindre does the dirty work, but sometimes I manage to flip a switch. Then I can entertain a lot of possible Sindres, almost effortlessly.
Getting better at it, too. Hence, the root tweet.
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You have your capacities, of course. I am probably not going to wake up and be a much smarter, sexier Sindre. Not past a certain threshold, anyway.
But one who is radically different than what most people (myself included) would consider "me"? Sure, why not?
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Yeah, that was a complete sideshow of a comment on my part. I'm tired today.
The point isn't even *that*, I think. It's whatever you "want" it to be. (Switching modes isn't the same as self-determination, I don't think.)
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My point, while not much of a point, was just on a different axis: some characteristics you just aren't going to change much.
But a lot of stuff people stupidly consider immutable, 100% isn't.
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Relaxing into existence or whatever is just one useful modality.
I get a lot of laughter. A lot of "ha, this is absurd", and, yes, a lot of peace.
But sometimes something else comes along.
Sometimes that "something else" is also useful in some way.