[Skittles56]

A movie is just a lot of individual pictures that run past us quickly enough that we believe we are seeing motion. Reality works the same way. Just a lot of quantum instants strung together to make a story. Those of us with supposedly defective brains are just able to see the gaps between the pictures. "Normal" people don't like being reminded that there are gaps that they can't see, so they label us mentally ill. Then we take chemicals that take away our ability to see the gaps so we can be "normal" too.

An interesting view, Skittles 56. But there's no such thing as "normal"; it's just a
statistic that has been randomly assigned to people. Do you really consider yourself
to have a defective brain?

Ah, well. Everyone has a different view, probably, but yours is the first I've seen
to use this imagery.

[venusss]

I like to say it's like trying to capture world on film. You cannot capture anything. Your brain filters. I believe not filtering enough is what makes us crazy.

so yeah.... maybe when one hallucinates we actually see glimpses of something that is indeed there.

[Skittles56]

I don't think I have a defective brain, genetic. I just think those of us who are crazy are judged to have defective brains. By normal, I meant the state that the overwhelming majority find themselves in. I guess statistics is one way to look at it.

[middlepath]

I totally get what you are saying! I feel similarly and this has been the source of some distress for me. I have always loved the fact that my spiritual self has often operated at a different level than my peers, mostly because "the gaps" are crystal clear. Shifting my attention from the glimpses of the gaps back-and-forth to our perceived reality is hard for me. I like both views (not equally) and don't want to give one of them up for the sake of behaving "normally". I do want to temper my behavior a little so that functioning is easier, but i don't want to loose my ability to achieve a higher level of consciousness due to lithiating myself into blindness.

So what Venus is saying is consistent with what Skittles is saying insofar that our brains have more omnipotent access to true reality...our lack of filtration allows us to see the gaps, right?