/psy/ - psychology and drugs

well i just had the god damned weirdets dream ie ever had

one weird thing i noticed was that i was listening to something talking about the panama papers when i went to sleep, and it seem to have worked some details in there but the chronology is way way off, because that shit ended like hours and hours before i woke up because of a continuity error in which a very quick robotic rabbit was biting me in the ass as i was climbing a tree after avoiding it behind this tree

the last thing i remember is looking over a balcony and seeing a dog running across the street on the far side before a car crashed into it, and then it went flying into a field before smashing into a robot which was somehow activated by it and also became wheeled of tracked. then the robot went haywire, crashed into a sheet metal barn, then the barn became like assimilated by it. this thing went haywire as well and became a very quick robotic rabbit which i guess targeted me after i rushed down to i think maybe try and save the dog, its very hazy already and highly convoluted

whats interesting is that when i climbed the tree to avoid this very quick rabbit shaped robotic thing, what woke me up was that it should have been injuring me but i felt no pain. its like why the fuck would not all the rest of this dumb shit not trigger my skepticism?

there was also a part of the dream where i went into this abandoned building where Sonic Youth was playing

man getting my ass destroyed by a possibly cybernetic rabbit is really a headscratcher

had a very odd dream where there were these fbi guys who were looking for a tape that my grandpa had before he died and for some reason my aunt was in my house cleaning my dishes and explaining this to me and i was like 'oh i have that tape' but i had recorded over it already

when i first found it i played the tape and it was just static, for some reason i was like 'this might be important' so i recorded the tapes static audio with my vhs player and rca cables into my audio interface. so when my aunt told me the fbi was looking for this tape i was like 'well ill send them the recording' knowing that it was probably digital data on the tape that they could decode the audio recording back into.

so she called the fbi guys and they said they would come to tallk to me then they actually never did and they emailed me instead. when i saw that they just emailed i was like 'fuck these guys' and didnt wanna send them their shit. then suddenly i was in this weird railway tunnel, like right outsidde the actual tunnel and there was some weird shit going down. a train came down the track closest to the tunnel wall and i used that as an opportunity to try and get away from the tunnel cause it was like something ominous was going on over there. then these final fantasy looking people caught me basically and i woke up

Thought I'd share something I've noticed from keeping a dream journal for the past couple of years. Certain symbols keep showing up for me in cycles, and they almost always mean the same thing.

Staircases are the big one. Whenever I'm at some turning point in waking life, like deciding whether to quit or start something, I dream about staircases. Spiral ones, broken ones, ones that lead down into dark water. Once I started writing them down with dates, I could practically track my anxiety about real decisions by what the staircases looked like. Intact ones usually meant I'd already made up my mind without admitting it to myself yet.

Doors are another. Locked doors show up whenever I'm avoiding a conversation I don't want to have. The funny thing is the dreams never tell me anything new, they just say what I already know in a louder voice. Journaling made that obvious. Before I wrote anything down, every dream felt random. After a few months of entries, the patterns were impossible to miss.

Anyone else have a personal symbol that keeps returning? I get the feeling these archetypes are partly universal but mostly custom-built out of whatever your life looks like.

i had a very weird dream last night where this magician had a duck turn into a bird, then the bird turn into a kitten. then i realized that he had somehow surgically put the kitten inaide the bird, and the bird inside the ducj, and that the duck and bird were both dead. then i saw the kitten was crying for the bird because it thought it was its mom. and for some reason i realized this kitten had also been modified somehow where its torso down was actually a dogs body. then it suddenly had grown bigger and it was like i had been taking care of it. it looked sorta like a lynx but with dark grey hair and was as big as a dog and its back was weird and caved in. i remember seeing it walk into a body of water and swim and thinking about how unnatural it was. it felt like some sort of strange symbolic thing going on. then i thought about how it would get along with my real cat and thats when i realized i was dreaming and woke up

i had a dream where i went to an alternate universe where my friend wasn't a writer, and he did music instead. i was with my old buddy alan from HS even though he died early this year. when i found (my writer friend)s number i called him and he said "what up (something that sounds like my name but isnt)", and i said what, then he called me "ray", then i asked him if he didnt know who i was why he would call me that. he wasn't sure. i was about to tell him i knew him in an alternate universe but i got this odd feeling and i got a flash of a white screen with black text in my mind, the black text was big font that just said "-9,999" or something and i thought that was a sign i would create a time paradox if i kept saying more so i hung up.

then i was talking with my friend alan and a chinese guy i who i cant remember

then the dream switched to one where donald trump wanted us, it was me and my dad and donald trump requested us specifically.

we were at this place i used to work at but it was set up like a sort of meeting place. when you walk in there was a poster on the wall, it looked like a Lincoln log type object - like a 3d cylinder, orange with a white background. and said something regarding 'your potential' - maybe like those motivational posters?

then we walked over and there was a group of us to meet trump and when we met him i thought maybe i wasn't supposed to be there but he addressed me directly. he gave me a sticker type thing that became a small blade and told us to stick it to our phones so we could use our phones for protection. mine wouldn't stick to my phone so i put it on a lighter. his words seemed cryptic to me.

when we left, a group of people were waiting and asked what was going on and why we were called. everyone explained and was confused, then i told my group i thought that trump was speaking secretly, and that he was trying to tell us something about extra terrestrials or similar, and i started using the poster and his words regarding self defense and something else i cant remember as examples.

then i was on a train, it felt more like a school bus, in the middle of a winter landscape. the train stopped because of the snow maybe. near a big forest and we heard the trees bending and cracking, as we all listened scared and some girl asked "what could do that to the trees"

we sat and looked to try and see what was doing it, then i noticed very close by under a bridge sort... Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>61
>I see people talk around this subject all the time, but very few people explain it for what it really is
I haven't ever seen anyone use the term "database consumption" (because it's frankly a bit clunky) but I've seen people discuss the phenomenon in generally more simple terms. "Secondary Fan" is a term I see thrown around alot for someone more interested in the media and culture surrounding a work rather than the work itself. People who like the idea of a work more than the work itself - the example in your post of programmers who are more into "programming" itself, rather than anything ends-focused like "software development" or "video games development" and talk alot about their favourite programming languages but not so much what they're actually doing with them.

Just to go on a tangent, I'm not a programmer, but just as an outsider looking in, "hacker culture" or whatever you'd like to call it, I feel used to be alot more about what you could actually DO with a computer. The computer was this tool that, if you understood it, you could do just about anything with. Nowadays it's just programming language/distro/text editor flame wars and people posting photographs of their riced-out Linux setups.

Back on topic, you're correct I feel in that culture has (and is continuing to) largely shift from the consumption of works themselves to the consumption of "constituent elements of the [work]." 'The Vibe' of something being more important than the actual content of the work. An undue focus on setting over plot and an extreme reliance of (and expectation of adherence to) literary tropes are elements I've noticed from these very postmodern works. Or, a work that seems to be an excuse for 'loremasters' to fill a wiki, which they get more enjoyment out of than actually engaging with the work itself. The big tendency is, I feel, breaking down complicated subject manner into easily identifiable and replicable tropes. I feel like the reason for this is because, not to get all "kids these days" but people are more isolated and generally have less of a sense of community than they did in the past.(tl;dr mass adoption of the internet) "Fandoms" have essentially become communities replacing real-world ones. Most people have limited life experience but alot of experience with media, which causes people to be more derivative in thei... Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>which is so much safer than asking whether users care.
Dear God, what an idiotic sentiment. Rewriting the architecture isn't for the (L)users, it's for YOU, the person tasked with knowing "every flaw in the architecture, every impure abstraction, every place where the old code fails to express its true intent" and yeah, the person tasked with knowing "what to say in every meeting". People like knowing these things because they don't like getting fired. Thinking a programming language is just a modular thing to be discarded just ejects the fact that it takes 10 years to really master one, or that it takes 10 years to really master programming for an architecture. That means that if we want to truly maximize the use of any technology, we can't just categorize it as modular and obsoleted in 6 months.

>>56
What do you want to talk about? i am admittedly more familiar with crowd psychology through reading Le Bon. You?

>>57
not op, but I feel like baudrillard has to get some street cred here considering the theme of the imageboard (well at least for most of the week).

The Society of the Spectacle is pretty prescient reading given the last 20 years.

I skimmed this translation, I like the Donald Nicholson-Smith / Zone Books translation better but this is what I got:

https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf

People are constantly being bombarded with media and curated images, movies, celebrities, etc that end up mediating our relationships totally. It doesn't really even matter what you have, as time marches on, the appearance of things is even more real to people scrolling on smartphones than an actual person they might connect with directly. Instead of having real friendships, people watch an idealized Sitcom version, or form "parasocial" relationships with streamers. Instead of meeting a romantic partner, we're swiping right on computationally idealized filter-edits of our actual photos.

I find his comments about counterculture and rebellion to be the most compelling. Corporate fashion co-opts every "cool" rebellious counter cultural trend and sells it right back to you. You don't have to bother socializing, creating a counter culture, you can just buy the outfit at Hot Topic. Now we've even got Suno AI Bullshit, the corporate dream is that artists are replaced by yet another commodified simulacrum, much easier to control and denude to maximize shareholder value. When you do happen to manage to connect with say, a band you like, you get scalpers reselling Ticketmaster branded tickets to a venue named after a bank.

This shit reads like Nostradamus.

>>58
I'm not sure Baudrillard would like this place though.

>>31
Not for me. I consider witnessing all the hobos and nons smoking this everywhere around main station, even in the park area at the nicest business district in town more effective on this. Some people are just rude

I do smoke from time to. It used to be more excessive like 25 years ago. Nowadays I don't have much time to be fucked up on drugs.

>>35
> As for weed. Can't you ask for something not super strong? I would of though they could of figured that out.

If it isn't legal you are shit out of luck, but there are milder options out there in the form of predecessors like THC-x and THC-a that is in weed that has been harvested before it was ripe.

They are legal in the EU due to a judgement from their supreme court. Just avoid ready made doobies. Some gonna hit you like brick and it will be fairly obvious that you are stoned. Another thing to avoid is THC-k. That is a literal narcotic that knocks some people out as soon as the dosage reaches a certain level.

>>39
>I have a vaporizer but I never used it much, it's a table vape similar to the volcano, but I remember saving the byproduct to try and eat but I never got to do it.
If it is weed, its more effective to use it a tobacco substitute. This is what my fren and me have done when ripped vapor through a bowl all weekend.

Yes.

>>35

Yes, you can definitely get less-strong weed. It is also much stronger now, but thats a function of people growing is properly vs buying dirt brick weed or "beasters"

You can definitely get 15-20% THC(a) which is still plenty strong. Its must harder to buy dirt weed, literally nobody wants it.

In most US States you can buy weed by its terp profile, even a lot of recreational does a terpinalysis now.

Hi

I liked drum when I was rolling my own. Haven't tried any other roll your own brands. Drum was strong

buy what exactly makes it taste good?

my first time smoking
here is my blun.t wrapped in napkin paper
i googled "how do i make a b.lunt"
pls rate

ps that blun.t was garbage

Anybody ever smoked crumbled peanut shells or toad skin?

>>72
No, but I've smoked toad venom before.

>>1
Cool recommendations. To add to your thing about self-hypnosis Dave Elman's "Hypnotherapy" is a great introduction to hypnosis for anyone interested. Guy made it for the medical world but it's just a really good introduction to what hypnosis is, how it works, and simple techniques for anyone interested.

In regards to belly breathing and progressive muscle relaxation I'd recommend Robert Bruce's book "Energy Work". Has lots of exercises on working with your body's energy and can boost any spiritual practices or your body's general health by a good margin. Quick, simple exercises and you can just read a bit each day to try and implement exercises. You'd probably want to use it to aid any breathwork you do.

Regarding breathwork you could try "Science of Breath" by yogi Ramacharaka
Easy read that takes an afternoon, talks about full breaths and the various, poorer ways people may breathe.
https://sacred-texts.com/eso/sob/index.htm