/lit/ - Literature

Christine is a good. I prefer lit fiction over commercial and it has that explores complex themes vibe from the first paragraph. I only read the first paragraph though. Also, I don’t read.

>>16876694
colour exists within the visible light spectrum. Psychedelics influence the colours you see. It changes the way you interpret light it isn't a hallucination. Closed eye hallucination within psychedelic experience is possible because mind can create light. When you imagine an object in your mind what is that object consisting of? Light. When you fall asleep in a dark room with no light. But dream of a world that has Light, where did the light come from? Your mind.this shouldnt be surprising,the mind can create an electromagnetic feild as well as other things. The mind is also capable of creating hyperbolic geometry aka the types of shapes and patterns you see when on DMT. Why does the mind have the capability to hallucinante hyperbolic geometry?

>>16491597
>>16491646
>immature
>immature
heh, we've got grownups in here
all adjusted to the world - all NPC, all normie, completely eaten by the material world - blissfully ignorant, not bothering to answer questions, not even thinking to ask them, because why?
life is fine for them, so it must be so for everyone, bad thing don't exist, just go to work, wear the mask, drink the coffee, post on facebook, be productive, buy the product, get the girlfriend, fuck, drink, fuck, eat, sleep, sleep sleep!

>>15377344
Cope elsewhere

>>13176246
attention (intellgience) boosting drugs. Every field is doing it; if you are not, you are falling behind, kiddo.

>>12630369
Ultimately we are creatures that have evolved over millions of years, with built in systems and behavioral patterns used to navigate the world. This is not as pessimistic and atheist as you might think - evolution is a force which uses truth itself to shape the future. We have inherited these truths in ourselves. Furthermore in evolution we are dealing with social groups of beings, so even morality itself is coded into us.

A human being is not singular in mind, we are made up of many interacting parts, "spirits", archetypes, some of it can be broadly categorized as the Jungian shadow. Don't identify with any of these utilitarian functions and modes of being, but rather a more transcendental principle which gets rid of things that are not needed, and embraces what is good.

Finally, there are purely biological, chemical means to influence us. Lack of vitamin D will effect mood, inflammation will send cytokine markers to your brain which do do affect behavior and mood and is linked to depression, damage to your brain can change you completely. Oh, and don't forget your subconscious, always messing with you.

Anybody else use books as primarily a means of making up stories about themselves? A way to see the world through a fictional lens that makes you feel special and unique, and not just another person out of a billions, living on one out of tens of billions of earth like planets orbiting one of the billions of stars in our galaxy? I mean just to respond to this thread you have to think that your opinion is somehow important and deserves to be voiced, when there are hundreds of people browsing this board.

So, for example, you identify with a fictional character, construct a story about how what you or they do is similar, and how you being in the know makes you special. When people watch a movie, they might pick up the habits or mannerisms of the protagonist, imagine what they would do in their place, post reaction images where they identify with that person, and so on. Same with more philosophical texts, they let you construct a story about how you fit into the world, how it all makes sense, if it's an ethics text you of course put yourself on the side of the angels in your ego trip. So it's all basically about dealing with reality via escaping into fiction.

>tfw I went through the book always high
10/10 but would not recommend

OP reminds me of myself - intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

>>11845485
that's some high level NPC shit