Besides drugs...
2007-10-10 05:21:35 · 16 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test.
You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.
2007-10-10 07:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am afraid I have to disagree entirely with the "Know Thyself" link that "Water Baby" has posted - no offense. I looked at it and found MANY distorted thoughts (logical errors and bad definitions) that would misguide a person, rather than teach him how to know oneself. Here is the link:
http://www.freewebs.com/dearreal/fundamentals.htm
I think that our thoughts are distorted only by one thing: bad application of logic, bad reasoning.
Since our culture (and all the others before us) is full of bad reasoning, it is not unusual to have distorted thoughts.
Logical reasoning is not effortless and it doesn't happen automatically or spontaneously. To achieve it one must ask oneself this question CONSTANTLY: "How do I know that what I am hearing, what I am reading, and ultimately what I am thinking is true?"
To answer quickly by saying it's impossible to be certain of anything is throwing in the towel and admitting that we are nothing more than nit-wits!
To answer that the truth can only be revealed by some mystical supernatural being, is about the same as saying we are nit-wits, but someone will show us the way. Good luck!
The answer is that there are many things of which we DO KNOW the truth, and many we simply do not know. What we know was achieved through logical reasoning. What we do not know does not give us the right to invent an answer.
If there is anything that we know for certain, than there is method to discover the truth of many other things, including who we are, what we want, why we want what we want, and how to get it. The method is always the same: logical reasoning.
Logical reasoning is the only reliable tool we have to know the difference between the real and the unreal, the true and the false, the good and the bad, the just and the unjust, and the moral and the immoral. No, logical reasoning is not infallible, but it is the ONLY method.
Put any of your problems to its test, and you will see what I am saying. If a problem has a solution, if it is part of reality, the solution can only be found with logical reasoning. If a problem in reality cannot be solved, it isn't because there is no solution, it's because we are not using logical reasoning.
2007-10-10 06:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just one example, but other people distort our thoughts. We may have a perfectly good thought come to mind, whether it be an idea, an answer to a problem, or any type of thought, and you relay this thought to someone, they can distort and mangle that thought till you have completely lost the original idea and now think the same as the other person who distorted your thought in the first place. I think people are the #1 cause of thought distortion.
2007-10-10 05:42:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The way that we give meanings to things is flawed. The only way we can give meaning to anything is through its relations. This is this in relation to this. Ultimately these relations all come back to us. This is this in relation to us. We’re always tiring to improve our webs of meanings looking for logic fallacies and overlooked relations, full well knowing that we have a skeletal frame of meanings at best. Our web never matches up with others webs although there is always overlap.
Guess people call us distorted because their’ meaning webs don’t look anything like ours
2007-10-10 06:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Association.
2007-10-10 05:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by Conrey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when we go thru what others would call tramatic experiences the chemicals in our brain change the way they pass between the receptors and inhibit us from making informed choices at the present time but if the stress is on a continual basis or something from the past then i would definitley talk to a dr about getting some blodd tests to check the chemical levels in your system
2007-10-10 05:31:34 · answer #6 · answered by TaTa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depression
2007-10-10 23:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by † Iríšh † 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Blood flow deprivation, Oxygen deprivation, Cancer, blunt force trauma, encephalitis, electrical shock, a hemispherectomy. The list goes on and on but anything that damages the brain damages your thoughts as well.
2007-10-10 14:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women! Well, at least for guys! I can be all happy with the way things are going, and with a single wink, and I'm like totally flustered.
2007-10-12 11:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by delux_version 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think our emotions at the time, memories or associations of similar situations, and even others opinions.
2007-10-10 07:25:54 · answer #10 · answered by michelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋