do we exist on some other realm? ( in dreams perhaps?) there is a thin line between being crazy and being a genious... how do we tell them apart? can someone be so smart it drives them crazy?
2006-08-06 19:18:11 · 7 answers · asked by steaven g 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
(1) The Realm Question
The nervous system is divided into the somatic (voluntary) and autonomic (involuntary) systems. If you view your "conscious" mind as being "unaware" of what the autonomic system is up to, couldn't you also speculate that perhaps the autonomic system itself has a form of "awareness" but is "unaware" of what your "conscious" system is doing? Could the autonomic system be more of less a "mind" which is "concious" of your blood pressure and the like, which regards the somatic system to be the "unconcious" system (because it is unaware of that system)? Possibly these two systems within you are both equally conscious in their own ways, and equally unconscious of each other. The autonomic realm is the other realm in which you exist.
(2) Crazy vs. Genious
Our brains filter out much of the information they receive, as a way of focusing on only relevant information. Recent studies show that brilliant individuals have a chemical which allows increased levels of "irrelevant" information to be accepted into their minds. Combined with good working memory and fast processing abilities, this allows people to be "creative". Otherwise, the mind becomes overwhelmed, and results in mental illness. Therefore, the connection between creativity and insanity seems to have a basis in fact.
2006-08-06 19:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by Jon 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well what I believe or I have heard and agree with is that we are honestly only as real as we want to be...our senses make us real. Smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound. Now we know that if we lose one of these senses it doesn't make us any less real...it heightens other senses instead. Imagine what you would be like if you didn't have your senses...would you still be real. Would you still be able to think? The human mind needs stimuli to think...if you can't see taste touch etc. can you think...and if you what about you haven't heard anything to think about or seen/read anything...what effect would the lack of incoming information have on a person who mind you can still think? They can't. With no incoming information no comparisons to anything no visual images no experinces to reflect on...you have nothing. No name nothing you are just air.
The thing is reality...it's just another thing we've put a leash around...time as well. Everyone lives by time...you go to work and you have to be there by a certain time. You go to school certain time etc. etc. it's either too late or too early on time or no time.
I think that there is a thin line between being crazy and being genious...the tricky part as you've mentioned how we tell them apart...now that's really all in the eye of the beholder. In most cases we see someone crazy as not making sense because their answers aren't vialble enough for us...on the surface we can't make sense of them so therefore that person is marked as being crazy. Now that same person could be looked as being a genious as well...their off the wall answers that some could not figure out because of their close minded ways...another person could look at and see a completely different picture looking at what the so called 'crazy' person stated as and looking at it from different perspectives or at their perspective if then it makes 'sense' then that person may be considered a genious.
I think it often times does drive people crazy...thinking one thing right after another in a chain...playing the events as they happen and analyzing everything to extreme I'm sure can lead to things like hypocondria as well as obsesive compulsive disorders and without treatment will more and likely drive that person mentally insane. Really all comes down to how paranoid that person is...or how paranoid they let themselves become rather if that so called genious/crazy person has a good grip on life and themselves and confidence then it probably won't drive them insane but for the 'crazy' people well...that's obviously not the case. My opinions.
2006-08-06 19:50:48 · answer #2 · answered by KitKat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actualy it is the same spirit but it travels in the dreams,our spirit leaves the body but stays atached with a thin silver line if this line cut then we are dead because our souls can't get back if this line is cut.
we may become abnormal if we become too smart, then we will be abnormal to the society we are living in.and some people defins mental abnormality as craziness.
2006-08-06 19:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by andy m. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We exist in an infinite parallel words simultaneously for an eternity. There is no true reality, each one is as real as the one you are experiencing now. Crazy and genius are the same thing, the latter knows what to do with it.
2006-08-06 19:44:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are here to whatever degree of consciousness that we are here. At this moment, how conscious are you of your breathing, of your heart beating, of reading this reply and the associations it evokes?
The mind IS crazyness. It's a trap. Consciousness frees you.
2006-08-06 19:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by lsn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read and understand JUST all of what's in wikipedia, no, you will not be sane by any normal standard.
2006-08-06 19:37:29 · answer #6 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm pinch yourself. you cant hurt in a dream
2006-08-06 19:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by Kittie_Nash 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋