Freeing your mind from itself.

[Matt East]

Today, I had an awakening, I freed my mind from self forged shackles.

I was a viking guitarist using Metallica to drive back the horde of emo nosferatu that embody the thoughts that force me to hide my true self and conform to social norms , I seen Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis fighting off the one thousand hillbilly rapists who attempt daily to sodomize my mind and want me to watch reality TV , Johnny O'keefe used his voice to convert the soviet gulag guards who patrol the prison of my mind, I was the non existent 9th Reservoir Dog Mr. Green, the 1812 Overture played as statues of oppression were destroyed, finally, as the hundreds of slivers that comprise my personality walked towards the gates of the jail, the two dominant parts of me stood together as one and defeated my personal demon, the hideous monster that has controlled me for too long, they tore him down and locked him away in the panopticon that he has kept me in all these years, for the first time in years, I am free.

Now this wouldn't be a (Legal) OP without some form of question, (I could be wrong about that).
Firstly, has this ever happened to you?, and if it hasn't, do you desire it?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Did you perhaps partake in ingesting some delicious but suspicious smelling brownies cooked by your flatmate who seems to smoke a lot of roll your own cigarettes and has a keen interest in botany, but for some reason only bothers to grow one type of plant?

Other than that I can't say I've ever had that type of epiphany, but then I am a middle class white person living in a first world country during the space age of mankind, so my shackles of oppression are more like pretzels of slight uncomfort.

 

[Handbag1992]

Er... no. The most powerful realisation of self as it were was my realising that I prefer men.

 

[shootthebandit]

What the fuck is this guy on about? Prisons in your head, by any chance do you suffer from paranoid schitzophrenia.

This is just like some crazy shit from the movie "sucker punch" without the babes

 

[derdeutschmachine]

Good job. Try not to fall into the same self oppressive state you found yourself in again. I'm not sure I ever had a grandios turn of face such as yours but I have let go of the things that held me back and I'm now living a fairly good life.

 

[rokkolpo]

So you had a Lucid Dream?

I love those!

 

[shootthebandit]

I've had epiphanies (Or atleast, so it felt) about the meaninglessness of life.
They were realizations about how absurd and pointless the human existance is and how miniscule it's impact will be on anything, let alone how miniscule the impact of my own lifespan.

This may seem as something that is obvious, but I've always made a distinction between things that you 'know' and things that you 'realize'.

To 'realize' means (to me) seeing things in a bigger, broader perspective, as though you transcend the boundaries of the human mind. This, I think is what an epiphany is.

I have to disagree a single human life can make a massive difference in the world. You've just got to constantly aim for the top and if you get knocked down then get back up and continue aiming for the top

 

[manic_depressive13]

I have to disagree a single human life can make a massive difference in the world.

Yeah! Just think about your carbon footprint.

 

[spartan231490]

Today, I had an awakening, I freed my mind from self forged shackles.

I was a viking guitarist using Metallica to drive back the horde of emo nosferatu that embody the thoughts that force me to hide my true self and conform to social norms , I seen Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis fighting off the one thousand hillbilly rapists who attempt daily to sodomize my mind and want me to watch reality TV , Johnny O'keefe used his voice to convert the soviet gulag guards who patrol the prison of my mind, I was the non existent 9th Reservoir Dog Mr. Green, the 1812 Overture played as statues of oppression were destroyed, finally, as the hundreds of slivers that comprise my personality walked towards the gates of the jail, the two dominant parts of me stood together as one and defeated my personal demon, the hideous monster that has controlled me for too long, they tore him down and locked him away in the panopticon that he has kept me in all these years, for the first time in years, I am free.

Now this wouldn't be a (Legal) OP without some form of question, (I could be wrong about that).
Firstly, has this ever happened to you?, and if it hasn't, do you desire it?

This happened to me a hundred times over as I read the book series: "The Sword of Truth" I came face to face with a clear depiction of what I believe, and through that depiction, I more clearly recognized my demons, and was more effectively equipped to defeat them. As a side note, your OP is someone with a good understanding of the english language and symbolism nerding out all over the internet. I approve. Well done.

 

[Rawne1980]

Those fumes?

Yeah, stop inhaling them.

 

[Booze Zombie]

You realise lots of things about the world, it's hit or miss if your realisation is going to mean anything to anyone else, though.

 

[Saltyk]

Words fail me. Why can't I have dreams like that? Oh. I don't do drugs. Damn.

 

[careful]

by the way, freeing your mind from itself may be an awesome romantic ideal, but it doesn't really make any sense, these quixotic ideas fail under scrutiny. you grow up in a social community, you learn the language of its people. that language 'enforces habitual thought patterns' so that even language has pervaded (and confined) your most private thoughts. there is no escape from cognitive confinement. some thoughts are not even possible for humans due to the physical architecture of the brain (try calculating the millionth value of pie). i say this because your not taking into account any philosophic or scientific rational behind interpreting your 'enlightenment.' then you go tell other ppl to liberate their mind from orthodoxy blah blah, willing to sacrifice everything you can to espouse these ideas all the while having no logically coherent idea on what your taking about. i like your post, well written, but its just juvenile ruminations with no merit of truth or intelligence.

 

[careful]

sorry that my post was a little mean. im not saying your an idiot or immature, i just thinking talking like this is perpetuating scientific illiteracy and ultimately deceives and miseducates the public.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

What are you on, and where can I get some?

 

[Matt East]

sorry that my post was a little mean. im not saying your an idiot or immature, i just thinking talking like this is perpetuating scientific illiteracy and ultimately deceives and miseducates the public.

Fair point, it was more of a realization that I know people who accept me for who I am, so why should I wear a mask around others?, and that the thing that has been holding me back for all these years wasn't anybody else, it hasn't been me VS the world, it was me all along.

Just to be clear, I'd been clean and sober for at least 3 days prior.
And inhalation of fumes in order to induce a state of euphoria is somewhat below me, what can I say, I like to think that I have a little class.

 

[Svenparty]

I have brief moments where the idea of existing and the world suddenly hits me and I have other strange occurrences but I can't say they are ENTIRELY sober occurrences or thoughts.

 

[Bobbity]

I want what you've been smoking.

OT: I've had some pretty bloody weird dreams myself, but nothing that trumps that.