Insanity, Imagination, or What?

Question

Sometimes I think there's more to something or someone than others know. It's like I can almost always find a deeper meaning to everything. I'll think that someone is actually an extra-terrestrial, secret agent, or sent to show someone else their destiny. I've thought there was something more about myself, like I was meant to do something really important or special. I also tend to be a bit paranoid. I keep thinking that people are planning something against me, or that they just hate me. Maybe these seemingly ordinary things in life are all connected in a way that there's a lot more to it...
Some may think I just have an overactive imagination, that I'm bored, or that I'm just plain crazy. However, I must beg to differ. Who's to say what's true and what's not? After all, if it can't be disproved, why not believe? Is anyone else like this?

Answer 1

This is meant to be a serious answer, so please take it that way.

The things you describe unfortunately are many of the symptoms for bi-polar disease.

I don't think that just because something can't be proven that it's not true - I will entertain possibilities like you've mentioned. However, I have a different frame of reference in my mind.

I feel as though I am here to do something special - but I'm not *destined* to - I want to and I feel I *need* to.

I feel that some people have an impact on my life that reveals what direction my future should go - but only because I've learned things from them, not because they were *sent.*

The main thing that concerns me is your admission that you think people are plotting against you.

I absolutely believe that you need to talk to a professional. If left untreated, this illness (as well as many others) can lead to really devastating consequences in your life.

It's wonderful to believe you're special - I think that's important. But it's also telling when someone doesn't moderate it with anything else, and instead of just feeling as though they're special, feels as though they have some unspecified "mission." Many people are driven to do important things - and many feel as though it's their destiny (like Mother Teresa or Gandhi) - but they *know* what it is.

I don't think you're crazy - I don't say these things I have because I think believing in ETs is stupid - I fully admit it's likely they exist. But given everything in context that you've expressed, I think you may need help.

Best regards.

Answer 2

First of all, there's ALWAYS more to things than it seems. So you are on to something, but you can't be sure if you're on to the right thing or not. Try not to let paranoia get to you, though. Even if people are plotting against you, you have to remember that getting paranoid isn't going to help. Also, remember that paranoia can often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If it can't be disproven, that alone is not enough to believe it. After all, there are a lot of theories which are fundamentally impossible to disprove, even if they aren't true. For example, if I say "somewhere in the universe there's a talking blue dog with 3 ears." Now if I can actually show you such a dog, I've proven it. But, how could anyone prove that such a dog DOESN'T exist?

Honestly, I really just think that you need to have more goals and purposes in your life. Then, things will start to come more clear....you have to think not just about what you should believe, but what actions you need to take.

Answer 3

Hiya...

I think also you're young and suffering a bit from self-absorption. Don't take that the wrong way, it's entirely natural for people from early teens to mid twenties to be self-centered. We work very hard to get past it. After all, we are physical beings that have big sensory systems that all lead back to our central core-our brains. We look out from behind our eyes, we experience the sounds and smells and sensations from right within our own heads. If you mapped us out graphically, you'd see little concentric rings of physicality, all converging to the center of our awareness.

If you think about everything in your question, one by one they can be explained from an implied over-association with yourself as an entity. It takes time to realize and really FEEL in a very meaningful way that you're a PART of this place and your race, and the earth, and it's very likely that most of the contributions you will make to the world will be anonymous. It's actually very liberating! Once the pressure's off to change the world, and being a deity in your mind, you can get busy living, just being a person.

But this time of imagination and centralized awareness is often the incubus for some really amazing dreams and goals for your life.

So dream on. "Who's to say what's true and what's not?" In your world, that would be you, baby.

Answer 4

It's ok to feel those ways. That way you make life more interesting.

As long as you notice it and know that you are just imagining and having fun in it, that's ok. If you totally abandon your sanity and believe in those imagination, get help, it could be Schizophrenia.

Answer 5

If it can't be disproved, why not believe it?