Have you ever really looked deep into your philosophical life and really thought about your a living a human being, that your an actual breathing thing? Not many people know what Im talking about when I ask them. Maybe Im just not putting it in the right words. But please tell me if you ever experinced this!
2007-06-14 20:32:48 · 12 answers · asked by Katie R 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This feeling is a feeling that freaks you out~
2007-06-14 20:33:29 · update #1
I once tried to word it, but couldn't. I know exactly what you mean (i think) Here is what i think you mean.
You are sitting in your room. You start to think about what are we? why are we here? What is earth? I am living? What am I? Then little by little it feels like you escape your body and see life trough a different perspective just for a couple of seconds.....It feels like you are nothing, floating then you regain your thought and think WEIRD.... I use to be able to do that now i can't i missed that moment where you don't know what you are and are having an out of body experience,feeling of nothingness
Did i get it or are you speaking about something else, i hope you are the one that felt this before....It is an empowering feeling!
2007-06-14 20:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by EL LOCO 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I have felt this way before.
It takes a great deal of openness and self-honesty.
It can lead to a string of questions that can leave a person weary and even frightened. That is when you need to get back to focusing on the moment and not the entirety of your life, and the meaning of it.
These thoughts hit me hard when my son died five years ago.
It made me face the incredible awesomeness of the universe and everything that hangs in such balance that only a higher power can be in charge of. We wonder about our meaning in life. We tremble with the thought of what will happen to our bodies when our soul and spirit leaves it. We are overwhelmed with the complexity of the simplest of cells that together make up a human. We can look at the night sky and feel how small we are in the scheme of things.
We wonder why our own existence is so precious to us when we are indeed just a small speck in a huge universe.
I think that under my skin is a skeleton. I know that the smallest of decisions can totally change my life.
We wonder the why of everything, why do we suffer, why do we have grief, why do we need love, why can't we be sure of ourselves. Why did strings of DNA join together to create me.?
What is my purpose here. Does what I do really matter.
Why is my body sill alive. Why does my heart feel joy, why does it feel sorrow?
Oh I totally understand what you feel.
2007-06-14 20:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have moments like that. And it makes me wonder why am I one of the few who get to walk on this planet. And it makes me question my existence, the purpose of my being. I believe I am not just here to be born and to die. That I am in this body, given life, a capacity to reason... to do things that other life forms can't. I am human. And it shames me sometimes that i do a mediocre job at this life given to me as I don't think anyone has ever been born exactly like me and will there ever be. I am made exactly as I am, alive, walking, breathing, thinking....I have so much power that I owe to make the most out of it. I am here.
2007-06-14 21:17:31 · answer #3 · answered by Inquisitive_Mind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean. I think about this often. I look out at the birds, squirrels, rabbits, cats, and chipmunks lurking in my lawn, and I think about me, my nice and air-conditioned home, where at night the crickets are kept at bay yet within chirping distance. I drive out to the gravel roads where a farmer has left his security light off, and I look up at the splay of the Milky Way. If the daylight creatures make me think of myself and my place in the world, the night is my church. We are stuck on a dust mote in a corner of one of billions of billions of galaxies, warmed by a nuclear furnace, and it's wondrous to behold.
I finished some freelance proofreading work this evening, and I decided to go for a short drive. I passed a car parked near the interstate where two people were perched on the hood and gazing up at the stars.
Your question reaches all people, and yes, as you imply, we aren't always as aware of what is and what could be.
2007-06-14 20:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by God_Lives_Underwater 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
July 1st, 2005.
I was in Paris France, standing on top of arguably one of the most famous structures in the world, the eiffel tower. All around me I heard languages being spoken, none of them my own, Italian, Greek, Spanish German, French, on and on, I saw notre dame to my left, the Rhine ahead of me and all I could think was..."Damn"...
On my headphones, 'White Shadows' by Coldplay was playing, and there is a lyrics in it 'You're part of the human race'...
It was an amazing experience, and I had never felt more alive.
Yeah, I know what you mean though. I'm like a vessel, being transported by these funny looking objects called feet. It's crazy. I also had a moment of clarity in Biology class. We were dissecting a baby pig, and it's insides although lined up differently, were the same as mine.
Hnads are weird too. It's like the claw in those machine that you grab stuffed animals out of. We're like that.
"Life, feeds on life, feed on life, feeds on life. Don't you SEE reverend Maynard, to them IT IS THE HOLOCAUST (please, damn you damn you let the rabbits wear glasses!!)"
--TOOL...
2007-06-14 20:45:01 · answer #5 · answered by Bored 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but i have looked into my life and thought where has the time gone i can remember when i was a teenager and now im thirty three and if thirty years can come and go that quick than another thirty years can come and go soon i will soon be dead what am i going to tell god how am i going to explain my sins how am i going to answer for not going to church what am i going to do. it seems like life is passing by have you ever thought about this. do you remeber when the cosbys were little kids and now thjere grown up dag look at time
2007-06-14 20:41:27 · answer #6 · answered by lovesshawnmichelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you are talking about. It does freak you out when you break it down into each step. Blood pumping, breathing, digesting, etc etc.
The more complex the system the harder it is to understand.
The funny thing is they talk about computers taking over when they acieve self awareness.... most humans have not achieved true self awareness.
2007-06-14 20:36:38 · answer #7 · answered by Texas Tiger 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have gone deep in thoughts at times and I get scared of few things. But it is important for every human to look deep inside themselves. You get satisfaction too. Good question.
2007-06-14 20:43:04 · answer #8 · answered by nimesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a brilliant question. I have felt this way, but need to think about the feeling more before I respond with more details.
2007-06-14 22:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by mwrc09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consious of your self in relation to the world - happens to us all at sometime.
2007-06-14 21:33:32 · answer #10 · answered by Barbarian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋