• trashcroissant
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    6 days ago

    Someone told me that your brain has a really hard time differentiating between reality and things you fantisize. I didn’t bother to fact check that, but I live in that happy fantasy world most of the time now.

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      5 days ago

      If true, that would explain a lot of the internet.

      … actually a lot of society as a whole, come to think of it.

      But I rarely have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality, except for a few moments immediately after waking up from a dream (which quickly passes). It’s hard to imagine others don’t have that same ability when (my personal experience suggests) the people I meet and interact with daily don’t have that problem.

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        4 days ago

        Oh no, it’s like your subconscious brain. Like, if you imagine eating a piece of cake in a lot of detail, the feeling is not actually that different than eating a piece of cake according to your brain.

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          4 days ago

          Oh, like the same neurons light up? Yeah, that makes sense.