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When I was very little, like about 3 years old, I thought I was the centre of the universe. My own consciousness was the only thing that had meaning to me. Things slowly changed as I got older and now I have a "healthy sense of my own insignificance" but I have noticed that some adults still behave like they're the most important person in their world and everything revolves around them. Is this normal?
I don't really like the attitude, and I'm not sure if it's normal. I guess most people think that they're the centre of their own little world, for obvious reasons. But genuinely believing that the actual universe revolves around you is crazy and completely ridiculous to me. I think it's very deluded and self-centred.
Contemplating the nature of existence is the biggest unsolved puzzle mankind has ever faced.
My consciousness does not exist,
My consciousness is the only consciousness that exists,
My consciousness coexists with other consciousnesses.
None of the above statements can be proven false. Depending on individual psychology some may believe that their own consciousness is the only thing that exists. The most devoted believers of this statement are called sociopaths.
All children go through this period, developmentally it's called egocentricism and growing out of this phase and becoming empathetic is one of the more important stepping stones of childhood development.
Some people never learn empathy. Or they delude themselves into thinking they understand when really all they do is apply their own feelings and thought process onto others.
I'm the centre of mother's universe and it makes me feel me guilty when I'm sad she's sad when I'm happy she's happy so sometimes I have to force myself to be happy because I feel like I'm responsible for her own emotions I'm not trying to make myself important but that's genuinely what happens.
It's because your Mom loves you so much. I feel like that about my son. I wish I had a mother like yours. When I was a teenager, my parents split up and my Mom started dating and she became consumed with her new life, full of romance. She lost interest in being a Mom to her four children. I ran away from home. Two weeks later, I went back home and her only reaction was, "Oh, you're back." She didn't even notify the police or anything else "normal". Her live-in boyfriend kicked me out of home at the beginning of my final year of high school, when I was preparing to go to college. He did this by putting all my belongings in the middle of the front yard. She stood by, let it happen and made no objections. The only place I had to go was a large metal garden shed at the back of my Dad's house, which I converted into a bedroom. In the summer, the temperature peaked at 113 degrees and all I had was a fan. I had to soak my sheets with water and put the fan in front of my bed so that the evaporating water would cool me down while I tried in vain to sleep. Same with the clothes I wore in my "bedroom" during the day. I had to study for my final exams in this environment. I could only study at night because I couldn't concentrate in the daytime because it was too hot. It was a miracle that I did as well as I did. Then Dad went to Brazil to live and put me in a college dorm. Didn't see my Mom for ten years after that.
But other kids have it worse. At least I wasn't sexually abused as a child.
Hey you sound like me! It's probably not normal just as paranoia isn't normal but just because you are irrationally paranoid doesn't mean kung fu ninjas aren't coming for you.
What I mean is: You could (possibly) be right for the wrong reasons.
Someone always told me, "No matter how powerful/intelligent you are, there's always someone out there greater than you"
My response? "Yeah but who's greater than him? And the one greater than that one?
Technically you ARE the center of the universe. The universe does not expand outward from a single point; instead, each body in space moves away from one another without any definite center (think of the surface of a balloon). Therefore, every object has an equal claim to being the center of the universe.
So it's not weird at all. :)