So. Uh. kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalh kinda blew me away, in the not-really-verbal-about-it-yet sense.
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Someone tells me, privately:
"I've been to the places he shared. Been to all of them. I don't share it publicly. I have such … (1/n)
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…a deep distrust of 'normals' that I don't know if I'll ever be free of that distrust or if I even want to."
This distrust is rational. 2/n
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It's rational because "normals" are so scared of it they want to lock anyone who exhibits any shred of it away "for their own good". 3/n
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I've mentioned in the past that I talk in my sleep, fluently. Like "can solve multiple-digit multiplication problems in my head" fluent. 5/n
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That's kinda neat actually. I have this (awake) thing where I can maintain 1.5 conversations at once, one stateful, one stateless
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It seems that my being "fully there" is not required for a stateless conversation? (= giving answers to contextless questions)
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takeaway: (awake) consciousness is needed for integration over longer timespans here (but maybe not even that)
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It makes it *really* hard to tell whether I'm actually awake or lying like a rug to make someone leave me alone so I can sleep.
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