Give me your spicy alt-psychology takes
Mine:
Hypnosis is just hypnagogia + introspective meta-awareness
Sleep paralysis is just lucid dreaming - introspective meta-awareness
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @nosilverv
synthetic senses, i.e. induced synaesthesias, can be deliberately trained and this is basically a superpower/siddhi
1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes -
Replying to @danlistensto @nosilverv
this isn't as weird or exotic as it sounds and I bet almost everyone has already trained a few. example: training to play a musical instrument is learning a synthetic sense that combines touch, hearing, breathe, and rhythm into a unified synthetic sense: musicality.
3 replies 1 retweet 20 likes -
Replying to @danlistensto
thsi is amazing and more examples please can you
2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @nosilverv @danlistensto
The experience of eating good food often seems festooned with colors and such. Synesthesia is an odd term; the mundane fact is internal experience of almost anything is multisensory, and they bleed together. Most people don't notice it. That's all.
2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
The whole idea of separating sensory experience into distinct channels is a distortion of language, and is contrary to experience of synesthesia, which everyone has (eg. taste is wildly influenced by smell, but also sight and touch)
1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @celestialboon @zbingledack and
The error is in thinking that senses are separate at all! It all comes together to form a singular experience. Our brain is not a machine! It all blends together, and as always, state of consciousness is not fixed, and altering it can create substantial differences in perception
2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @celestialboon @zbingledack and
Can verify. Awareness is unified and looking for a boundary between sense gates can collapse the apparent boundary.
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @_StevenFan @celestialboon and
Get concentrated and look for the boundary between touching fingers, direct experience of Emptiness when the boundary disappears.
2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
Same thing can be done with different sense gates but requires stronger awareness.
-
-
Replying to @_StevenFan @celestialboon and
Oh yeah and it helps to take the view that there is a visual-spacial aspect in feeling and sound, a sonic aspect in feeling and space, and a feeling aspect in space and hearing.
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @_StevenFan @nosilverv
@nosilverv, I'm writing a quick guide here. I'll work on a more through post. Bring up awareness of the senses. A body scan is a good place to start.1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes - 12 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.


"Nasty little Buddhist"
Seeking via neuroscience and psychology informed dharma.