I’m sitting here thinking about how lucky I am to be alive given what I’ve been through.
What if it wasn’t luck?
Pronoia is a neologism coined to describe a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia feels that the world around them conspires to do them good.
I’ve had luck in the sense that I’ve always had a close friend wen one left, another soon arrived… Excluding this rough times in my life where I push people away etc
When I was psychotic my delusions had a lot of that. I thought that ASIO ( Australian CIA ) was spending millions of dollars a day to send me messages through the satellite tv. It was very weird and mixed up with the paranoia for sure. I read like horoscopes and those messages I thought were positive messages to tell me things.
I can relate and I suspect that my brain is a positive brain. I see the glass is half full in most situations and can see the positives in most things.
I had mostly paranoia, but a bit of pronoia too, mainly at the start.
E.g. at a certain point i believed that if i stayed only in touch with nature - literally, like standing with bare feet in the grass - nobody could hurt me in any way and nature and God would protect me from everything. 
I’ve sat in my chair and am suddenly amazed and baffled that I am still alive. So many close calls and just years and years of pain and frustration. It will just hit me and I literally shake my head and say wtf outloud. Than I feel some pride that I’ve made it this far.
Pronoia? Huh. Well that’s interesting. I’ve actually had this quite a bit. I never knew there was a name for it. I thought it was just my outlook but now I see it. Oh wow. Paradigm shift.
What do you mean by “What if it wasn’t luck?”
I think if you mean that somehow the universe conspired to keep you alive, or something like that, that can be seen as pronoia and even delusional thinking
I don’t think feeling lucky to be alive, just by itself, can be described as pronoia, if that’s what you meant
Yes. That’s what I was saying. It was just a blip last night. Today in the cold light of day I just think it was dumb luck coupled with a strong will to survive.
Never had a name for it before, but in the presence of other beings, I’ve felt this I think. An overwhelming sense of peace, that everything will always work in my favor because they conspired it so.
It’s hard to describe
I feel that my g----dian angel has protected me throughout my life. But, this isn’t pronoia. This is my religious belief.
Not me. I wonder why I got so f’d over and the masses go on smiling and buying crap. Than I think never mind I’m glad I don’t care about stupid s××t
Im a scientific guy, but a part of me feels there is at least some godlike force guiding us in life to some unknown end. Maybe that force really likes you lol
Is that a bad thing? What are you concerned about?
I have to be careful of delusions. I guess we all do.
Pronoia is a word I haven’t heard but definitely describes me
At what point does my spirituality become pronoia?
I oscillate between the both conditions I find wow… Is it possible and how so, people? Wow…
İ think this thought disorder is very common at some disney cartoons. At that cartoons everybody helpful even the animals to the role models which i used to find very disturbing because it was so unreal.
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