Do a reality check three times a day, pause and take in what’s real, what’s consistent. You’ll start to notice that even while asleep, you will be more lucid. For instance, if you check your watch in a dream and realize it’s not real. This should work also for delusions and hallucinations, which come from a dream-state.
Remain neutral but also validate your beliefs and opinions, but don’t seek out resources that solely support your fears or beliefs. It’s a type of selective hearing, selective information, that people choose a topic that interests them–reflects beliefs–and then get sucked into blind belief.
This realization hit me that if I am watching a conspiracy show, so many threads can be re-arranged to distort truth into a lie. Most conspiracy videos are attempts to distract and make money off people’s obsession with secret information. It’s unhealthy too, because none of the information can really be verified. It’s subjective information, mostly diluted facts that are twisted to make people afraid.
When people are looking for reassurance or information and spoonfed lies and disinformation. I do not think it should be illegal to post a conspiracy theory, it’s just that the internet is saturated with them and it can be dangerous for some people who lack self control and direct insight.
So the basic thing is, don’t believe everything you’re told even if it sounds true. Don’t be fooled into believing something that terrifies you, only to find that its used for something else.
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I just don’t believe anything at all. From my point of view, it is an insane act to believe anything, unless the belief is only used to get you off to a start to venture toward the actual truth.
After all, you only need practice a belief if you are located at a distance from the truth and thus are located within the zone of less than truth. Thus if you accept a belief of some kind, then that means that you are willing to accept less than truth.
Instead, I just rate things with probability ratings of whether or not they are true.
If I was certain of something, yet a belief was part of the equation used to reach this certainty, then surely I would have lost my mind. To reach certainty while being displaced from the truth, would be the work of only an insane mind.
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Exactly. Beliefs are just opinions…
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This is why I just laugh when I hear terms such as “False Beliefs”. It just breaks me up. After all, any belief of any kind is located at a distance from the truth. However, people think that if it is a belief that is shared by the majority, then it is considered to be a truth. Thus in the past, it was considered to be a truth that the world was flat.
The point being is that even if 99.9999999999999% of the population shares a particular belief of some kind, that in no way at all means that it is true !
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If it is a belief that can’t be legitimately proved or disproved then just leave it alone. It’s a safe play.
Yeah that’s the realization I had. I just need to calm my thoughts.
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I don’t think delusions come from the dream state. I used plenty of logic and reasoning but was still afraid of my delusion. The only thing that works for me is medication.
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I feel that a lot of my sneaky brained thinking comes from some pretty gentle and commonly accepted stuff…
Lots of people believe in reincarnation… probably not to the extreme like me.
Lot’s of people probably think a bit about past life experiences… probably not to the extent I do.
Kidnappers do exist… no one can deny that. Dose that mean every human in my neighborhood IS a kidnapper? most likely not, but my sneaky brained still kicks in then I start getting dramatic.
I have to check myself when I start acting on the beliefs. I can have my deep belief about reincarnation and the extra that goes with it… but as long as that problem just sits quietly and I don’t start preaching it… acting on it… getting emphatic… well…
It is what it is… and I can still get through my day.
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