humanity
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Why I Don't Look Back
I moved to Wichita almost 9 years ago from a small town about an hour from here. That town had 1200 people. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas. Well, big by their standards. I grew up on the East Coast and in Texas, and it’s clear that Kansans don’t get what “big” means. New York, Miami, and Atlanta are big. This is a large town.
By Alexandra Grant3 months ago in Psyche
The Subconscious Mind
Understanding the hidden force that shapes your thoughts, habits, and life Introduction: The Hidden DriverMost people believe that they are in full control of their lives, making every choice and decision consciously. But science and psychology tell us a different story: only about 5% to 10% of our mental activity comes from the conscious mind. The remaining 90% to 95% lies in the subconscious — a vast, powerful, and unseen part of our mind that works like a silent computer, running programs that dictate how we think, feel, act, and react every single day.
By The Curious Writer3 months ago in Psyche
10 Hidden Psychological Tricks
Unseen Mental Habits That Shape Behavior Out of nowhere, actions seem normal even when they are not. The mind slips into quiet shortcuts without warning. Not by choice, these patterns just appear during regular moments. Far from spells or schemes, such habits shape how folks move through days.
By Abdul Lateef3 months ago in Psyche
The Path
When pain makes you feel like a stranger in your own life Feeling DisconnectedFor years, Lina walked through life feeling like a stranger in her own body and mind. After enduring a long period of fear, uncertainty, and loss, she noticed that she had slowly changed into someone she barely recognized. Once lively, curious, and full of dreams, she had become quiet, distant, and numb. It was as if a thick glass wall had grown between her and the rest of the world — she could see everything happening around her, but she could no longer feel it deeply.
By The Curious Writer3 months ago in Psyche
An Introduction to the Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis
1. The passage of time is malleable. American neuroscientist Hudson Hoagland (born: 1899 CE, died: 1982 CE) discovered that time is more than just relative to position and momentum—there is a completely different gauge of time inherent to each individual: interoceptive temporality, or psychophysiological time. Interoceptive temporality is a subjective underlying feeling of time based on physiological factors (such as temperature) and psychological factors (such as stress). Each of us views life through an individualized psychophysiological time-lens controlled by our body’s internal chemistry. This time-sense can be distorted and even manipulated by altering the body’s temperature or its ability to utilize oxygen. The brain relies on its own autonomic rhythms to measure the duration of a moment and the span of events. Mr. Hoagland, studying sick patients, determined that the heightened temperature arising from fever causes a subsequent acceleration of the sense of temporal sequences. Higher temperatures make our cerebral clocks run faster, thereby shortening our perception of time’s passage. Hoagland later realized that restricting the brain’s oxygen flow also has the effect of speeding up the sensation of time. As people grow older and become less capable of taking in and processing oxygen, many of them begin to experience the years passing more rapidly. Our minds actually do observe time to move at a faster rate during the elderly stage of life due to oxygen depletion. The perception of time can be shortened to the feeling that every moment is flying by, or it can be elongated to feel as if every moment is crawling in slow motion—the data-processors of our brains can be sped up or slowed down by various biological, chemical, and psychosocial factors. Bottom line, the perception of time can be altered.
By J. Martin Strangeweather3 months ago in Psyche
No Tomorrow . AI-Generated.
The Case for Youthful Urgency: Society treats sixteenth years as a grace period—a comfortable waiting room where teenagers are actively encouraged to drift, defer, and delay. Adults constantly offer the soothing antidote of "tomorrow" to justify teenage complacency, promising that adult responsibilities can wait. This perspective is fundamentally flawed.
By Vibrant-chaos3 months ago in Psyche
Finding Joy in Everyday Life: How Simple Moments Create Lasting Happiness. Top Story - June 2026.
For some, joy can be found in a cup of matcha at a local cafe that resonates. The joy of the barista preparing your beverage, and the joy of taking in more antioxidants. The joy of putting your mobile phone away, and in having your matcha made from heaven waited on you hand and foot. Maybe not that excessively, although I should have left the latter at full table service. If you happen to be enjoying that cup of matcha green tea alone (or sipping on another concoction that brings you joy); the joy of solitude can be appreciated and embraced. If not the joy of connection.
By Justine Crowley3 months ago in Psyche
Exploring the Relationship Between Aphantasia and Dimethyltryptamine Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid
For the purposes of this exploration, let us define a hallucination as the experience of something that is only present in one’s mind. The hallucinogenic substance known as dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, enables the vivid experience of things that are only present in one’s mind. Our imagination also enables us to experience things that are only present in the mind. Studies report that low concentrations of endogenous DMT (that is, DMT which forms naturally inside one’s body) between 0.12 to 100 ng/ml are normally present in human cerebrospinal fluid [1]. Aphantasia is the inability to picture things in one’s “mind’s eye,” or imagination. There are two types of aphantasia: congenital aphantasia, which is present from birth, and acquired aphantasia, which develops through brain injury or illness. Studies show there are no significant structural differences between the brain of someone with congenital aphantasia and the brain of someone who can visualize things in their mind’s eye, so the primary contributor to congenital aphantasia must be a matter of functional divergence as opposed to structural abnormality. To be clear, there are some subtle structural differences in aphantasic brains, but not enough to explain the disruption of the visualization process [2]. This paper proposes that extremely low levels of endogenous DMT in human cerebrospinal fluid (near or below the lower end of the reported range, or ≲ 0.12 ng/ml) may contribute to the functional differences underlying congenital aphantasia.
By J. Martin Strangeweather3 months ago in Psyche
