Is it normal to be amazed by awareness?

I am a 21 year old guy living in NYC. Sometimes i really wonder what the hell this all is. What is awareness? Try to imagine yourself as non existent, its impossible because all we know is being alive. What is "life"? Why and how is my heart beating right now? Am i making my heart beat? Am i making myself pump all the nessicary fluids it needs to survive or is it doing it by itself? it feels i am forced into all of the daily basic needs and goals in life,being pushed into acting a certain way and told to be 'successfull' that most of my free time is spent wondering what the hell this all is.Who are you people, where the hell am i, what created me what created this earth, the sun and moon...just endless chatter in my mind. Was it aliens? Well then, who created the aliens? Was it god? who created god? Am i god just pretending im not just for kicks? I dont care about football games and TV shows , i dont care about timmy and lisa breaking up on facebook and how whats his face just bought another BMW and twittered it. I like nice things , but i wont go as far as buying a yacht to let it sit in the boat yard rusting just so i can tell people i have a yacht (not that i can even buy a yacht if i wanted too). Im not into that competitiveness with physical things because when i die i know its not coming with me and its just worthless. I talk to tons of people, priests, pastors, good friends, retards,black people, white people, asians,arabs, and have no one that can relate with me in feeling this feeling. I sometimes think they dont even know they exist. Most of the time they just regurgitate passed down information their mothers and fathers told them. Then this leads me to some solipsism and i feel like im being tricked into thinking life is real, and it could just be some type of program/virtual test that im making up in my mind....It sounds off the wall, but so does "Jesus was the only son of god who rose from the dead" and any other theory or religion about what this all is . I dont want you to get the wrong idea, i do love life, i love my family,and im not just a lazy complainer i truly am confused.I am just amazed at what this all is, and nearly 100% of the people i talk to act like existence is a normal everyday thing.It feels like this is my first time being alive and everyone else has done it before me and they just pretend they dont know what im talking about. Either that or theyre all doped up on ridalin and anxiety pills and cant understand what im talking about. Words can hardly express the feeling im talking about.

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  • Aristacrima

    This is perfectly normal, for me it is anyway. I think like that all the time. When I do random stuff like watching a movie or talking to someone, I'm thinking by myself "am I really watching this movie? Am I really talking to this guy?". And when it's coming to the existance of all I wonder what was the cause of all. Just 'cause' is just stupid. Thinking like this changes my view on mankind. I just see poeple as a crowd who, when threatened with death, will fight for their lives, but do they know what life really is? Damn I need to get a gf lolz...

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  • BOYracer88

    yea i get what youre talking about and i get this too sometimes, it is breath-taking to think what a coincidence this whole reality realy is when you think about it, you seem like a smart and deep thinking person, it seems like because you wonder so much you apreciate life more and you are getting a different experience of the world than most others, this can be a good thing or a bad thing for you. do listen to other peoples crazy theories but come to your own conclusion, reading your story made me think, how is life realy possible, it made me think of how random and spontanious it is, am i realy so insignificant or am i the master of the world around me? lol i probably wont sleep tonight because ill be thinking...

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  • CGFE3

    i use to be like that...when I was 8.

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  • PI$$FASE!!

    DURRRRRRRR! lady that some so stupid question. just GOOGLE it...wow

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  • welcometoearth

    I too have experienced what you are going through, and continue to reflect on similar thoughts in my life currently (though I have a better understanding of it now. The wide open awareness is still there, but many questions have been answered since) These guys have said some good things up here. You do seem to be quite intelligent and your eagerness will enable you to process subjects more deeply, which for someone like you works out well I imagine. I recommend you investigate as many areas of human culture as you can..philosophy science art religion music. We are at a point in human experience where the framework of life has expanded so much in such a short time that there are gaps appearing where answers have never been... because the question had literally not been asked before. Getting a grip on where humans have been and thought and created before will help ground you a bit while you are figuring things out. The clearer your understanding is of where you are standing in this moment now will help you select your most successful perspective to hold for the future. A book that has some interesting concepts is Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts. It provides the best example of what is really going on here that I have found thus far. Essentially- that your beliefs and thoughts quite exactly form the reality you perceive around you. Consciousness created form rather than the popular notion of the time that we are formed from matter. (Quantum physics has some interesting things to reveal about the nature of observation and thought and it's influence on matter.) One thing you will find on your journey is this. Everyone on this planet has a theory. Everyone. "If you just believe in God or Jesus or whathaveyou you will be okay" they tell you. "Don't believe in fairytales believe in just the facts! But the common thread tying it all.. is BELIEF. Both sides will go through life experiencing exactly what they are thinking about. They will see nothing but proof of it in everything they do ("I just KNEW i was going to be late when I woke up today and, SEE Im running late!")...not realizing it is they themselves creating all this drama. The point is, you need to begin to establish some theories of your own. Your beliefs create your world, so get to know what your thoughts are on different subjects. Someone as clear as you will do better looking in rather than out at this juncture. So in all your exploring I know you are bound to do, be clear with yourself about your intentions before you begin -don't get too caught up in it - take what you can and dont forget to stop and breathe and enjoy the beauty that lies in this unique framework of our reality.

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  • Bowerbird

    Yep. Being alive is pretty friggin' bizarre when you think about it.
    To quote some hipster garbage band: "Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all."

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  • ComboBreaker

    You seem like a smart person. But you shouldnt ask for the ansers, you should descover them. A quetion like "where did it all come from?" anserd by a human, is a quetion wasted. You should learn everything you can and come to your own conclution of what your reality is. The amount of things you could descover with a couriosity like that is infinate. Gain theroys from as many people as you can, to help you with this. A simple convosation with a simple person can help alot more than you think. People will argue that you are wrong, but this is a good thing. You will come to your own ansers by improveing what you know as you cruse threw life. Make sure you make your self clear, also. So you truely understand what your ansers are and then share them. Again, people will say you're wrong, but to anyone with a mind willnig to open wider, your theorys will be as good as gold. Good luck, hope you learn something new to contribute to your own anser. Normal, so normal im going to put it in caps after this. NORMAL.

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    • ComboBreaker

      Also, thought I should also say this: Educate your self for a more fulfilling anser. I would also like to read anything you come up with. Please post your own ansers. Good luck.

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