Me too if I think about it too much. At school, I took special options in nuclear physics and astrophysics and it's even scarier when you go from the very small to the impossibly large. My physics teacher used to say that a friend of his at university once got so freaked out by it, they committed suicide. There are certainly times when I know I have to stop thinking.
"There are certainly times when I know I have to stop thinking."
Yes, that's probably the best remedy, since you can't change it anyway. After all, ignorance IS bliss. Unfortunately, something inside of me kinda forces me to think about certain stuff, even if I don't really want to. There's always an internal dialogue going on inside me. Very annoying. Do you have that too?
Yes, and I do have that. Sometimes I can't be shut up. It makes me crazy to think about (just like determinism makes me crazy because I instinctively believe it must be true but even as I'm typing these words I'm deliberately not thinking about their implication).
Off to the next post before I think too much about this!
I don't know about dappled, but I have that. I have a lot of difficulty controlling what I think about, actually. Sometimes, when I try to think about other things, it gets worse. The thoughts I'm trying to avoid force their way in.
When I was in about third grade, it started to really bother me how small we are, how short a time we live, and how we spend far, far more time being dead than we spend living. It was a big contributor to my childhood depression. It still bothers me sometimes, but I'm usually much more ok with it now. I do have other intrusive thoughts, though. The fact that I'm more ok with it is partially the product of a good bit of therapy.
Is it normal the vastness of the universe freaks me out?
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Me too if I think about it too much. At school, I took special options in nuclear physics and astrophysics and it's even scarier when you go from the very small to the impossibly large. My physics teacher used to say that a friend of his at university once got so freaked out by it, they committed suicide. There are certainly times when I know I have to stop thinking.
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I was almost that friend in elementary school, honestly.
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It's good you're still around.
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Aw, thanks.
"There are certainly times when I know I have to stop thinking."
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Yes, and I do have that. Sometimes I can't be shut up. It makes me crazy to think about (just like determinism makes me crazy because I instinctively believe it must be true but even as I'm typing these words I'm deliberately not thinking about their implication).
Off to the next post before I think too much about this!
I don't know about dappled, but I have that. I have a lot of difficulty controlling what I think about, actually. Sometimes, when I try to think about other things, it gets worse. The thoughts I'm trying to avoid force their way in.
When I was in about third grade, it started to really bother me how small we are, how short a time we live, and how we spend far, far more time being dead than we spend living. It was a big contributor to my childhood depression. It still bothers me sometimes, but I'm usually much more ok with it now. I do have other intrusive thoughts, though. The fact that I'm more ok with it is partially the product of a good bit of therapy.