/lit/ - Literature

>>22529320
idk I think it's about Kant

>>22439905
But in a block world model it's immediately obvious that *something* about our perception is changing, otherwise we would either perceive everything all at once or nothing at all. Why do humans perceive being in the manner that they do, according to the Eleatics?

I'm too dumb for this thread. I can hold the pertinent information in my mind while reading some anons' posts, but as soon as I get done it slips away. Those that deal with both metaphysics or philosophy and mathematical concepts I have to re-read two or three times before they click, and they still slip out of my head afterwards. I couldn't explain what I read here to someone else if they asked me to.

I make posts on /lit/ implying that I've read Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Augustine, Shankara, Guenon, and the like even though I'm only familiar with their ideas through osmosis from lurking this board.

Retard here. I'm going to an overnight sleep study in a couple hours.
Would it be autistic to just show up in the clothes I intend to sleep in? Do people normally bring a change of clothes to this kind of thing? Am I overthinking it?
Please advise.

I swear I'm not a schizo or anything but I've been having a strange problem for 5 or 6 years and I'm not sure what to do about it. Basically instead of experiencing things normally I'm noticeably detached from my senses, my thoughts and impressions, and my emotions, to the point that I can sort of manipulate them or turn them 'off' by concentrating. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to do the opposite and the result is that I can't enjoy or take pleasure in things very much anymore, or express myself like I used to.
After around a year or two of taking notice of this it started feeling like I would be able to manipulate further things about my mind. I felt like if I pushed hard enough in one direction I would break something and greatly reduce how much emotion I felt, but I held off from doing that. I also felt that I could enter a sort of unconscious state where an outer personality would continue to go through the motions of my life while I 'slept' internally, similar to how I might enter a state of 'autopilot' while driving to work or walking a long distance.
The other thing I noticed was a sense of being unreal, or less than real, or being a character in the dream of something more real than me. This generally fits into my views on things so it doesn't bug me very much but being constantly aware of it 24/7 has made me feel a little unhinged.
I've tried to force myself to consolidate back into a unified person with no 'gap' or 'wall' between thoughts/impressions, the origin of those thoughts/impressions, and the thing that observes and/or makes decisions based on those things, but if anything it made it worse - it felt like trying to find handholds on a mirror.
And in the past couple months I've started having intrusive thoughts telling me to do very immoral or disgusting things and hearing voices/thoughts telling me to worship demons or something. I've learned not to pay stray thoughts in my head much mind and generally just say a quick prayer or ignore it when it happens but it might have something to do with what's been going on.
What's going on with me? Is this fixable or is it something I need to live with for a while longer?

>open book
>read 4 pages
>can't concentrate anymore
>try to force myself to keep going
>eyes literally slide off the page
>can't remember anything I just read
>put book away