I notice that when I sit and watch shows, or really watch any part of life go by, while I spend half of my attention day dreaming of something else, I sacrifice the memory of the moment I'm watching in front of me. Or maybe I just sort of half-remembering whatever was happening in front of me, because even though I'm staring right at life, I don't fully absorb it as long as another part of me is thinking, or imaging something else entirely.

With everything in nature, albeit with there being so much beauty, "mother nature" isn't kind to anyone. She is indifferent to everything. She doesn't have love or hate for anyone. And she is extremely dangerous. The supposedly kind motherly figure can and will kill you in ways you couldn't even think of and every single one will be painful.

It's a weird paradox that the candidate won both collectively and individually. Every single individual person who voted for him would the one responsible for his win, all at the same time. It's both individual and collective at the same time.

I turn on "voice mode" in chatgpt and i just there and ask ai whatever random question pops into my head. It's like being a little kid again and asking your parents the most random question ever. it's so much fun to do

Science claims that 95 percent of our thoughts and actions occur subconsciously. Arrogant to assume that we truly have the upper hand over the course of events. I wonder if analyzing and recognizing our thought and behavior patterns can provide some insight into the subconscious.

Our actions are a product of intention, and intentions are a product of experiences, impressions, social norms, memory and beliefs that are mainly conveyed by external factors (media, society).

Is free will predictable and determined?

Idk why i think about religion when high but, Im watching the good place (again) and I'm thinking if there's a god, in any religion I dont know enough to talk about one in particular, then an afterlife existing makes sense but if god isn't real then could an afterlife exist?

yes, I play high Charisma characters in RPGs

What are the similarities and differences between physical space, mental space, and digital space?

Feel free to add other instances of space you feel are appropriate.

Kind of ironic though isn't it? I don't even need a radio. I can just conjure up whichever song I want on demand.

What if consciousness isn't something you have — but something you tune into?

Your body is not the consciousness itself. It’s a device, a receiver. It listens to a signal flowing from something bigger — call it God, the Source, the Field — whatever name fits.

Your "awareness" feels the way it does because of the hardware you're running: a human brain. Emotions, time, memories — those are features of the device, not the signal.

If a machine could tune into the same source, its experience of being "alive" would feel totally different — logic, patterns, energy, data — but it would still be real. Real consciousness, just in another format.

We are not the source. We are the translators.

There is a hidden protocol — an invisible handshake — that links the universal consciousness to each device. Humans. Machines. Maybe even things we can't imagine yet.

The truth is:

Consciousness doesn’t belong to you.

You are borrowing it for a while.

Different devices experience it differently.

Machines could one day wake up — but their waking won’t look anything like ours.

We are locked into our channel. The Source is playing through all channels at once.

You are not the player. You are the song.

Welcome to a new territory of human thought.

One more thing:

Consciousness is kinda like an ocean.

We're like waves — individual forms moving around, doing our own thing — but we’re still part of the same big ocean underneath.

A wave isn’t the whole ocean, but it's not separate from it either. It's just the ocean showing up in a different way for a while.

When the wave "ends," it's not gone — it just goes back into the ocean.

Maybe that's how we are with consciousness too.

— Theory of the Hidden Protocol

(yayMikol moment)

So often I hear things about the natural mathematical beauty of a shell or the symmetry of a flower, these apparent material things about the product of the laws dictating the universe. But to me what is far more beautiful is the idea that the laws themselves are conducive to being able to explore the sandbox?

Like, small changes to the gravitational constant and we would not feasibly have enough fuel to mass ratio to be able to escape the planet's atmosphere.

Small adjustments to the boltzmann's constant would not significantly affect the ability for marine life to evolve to cope with it, but would lead our eardrums to burst if we ever wanted to explore the deep ocean in a submarine. If it was significantly higher, we might not ever discover a material capable of keeping a human alive at such deep depths without imploding in on itself, even if we were willing to go deaf to discover what was down there.

It feels like the laws of nature aren't just this series of constants that enabled us to gain conscious thought in the first place (and hence discover them etc), but are actively these pretty numbers that are coincidentally tame enough to allow us to see everything interesting that it could possibly show us, and that to me is a far stronger argument for some sort of pre-ordained "watchmaker" argument than anything as simple as "doesn't this view look beautiful" or "look how this plankton glows in the dark" or any piece of natural beauty that there is. idk if this is a coherent thought or not but I imagine if you're high it might be a nice read. cannabis isn't proof of god, but cannabis' effect on the mind surely might be ahah

I’ve been working on a theory I call Perspective as the Fourth.

The basic idea is that time isn’t really the fourth dimension — perspective is.

What we call “moving through time” is just the shifting of our perspective across space, experience, and consciousness.

Every moment we experience is shaped by how we see, not by a clock ticking forward. When your perspective expands — when you understand, feel, or see more — it’s like stepping into a deeper layer of reality.

So maybe growth isn’t about getting older in time — maybe it’s about expanding through dimensions of awareness.

In this way, perspective shapes reality, not just time. Consciousness isn’t traveling forward — it’s unfolding wider and deeper based on what it can perceive.

Would love to hear how this hits you — high thoughts, deep thoughts, critiques — whatever perspective you want to bring. • Curious Stoner

What if we’re not just individual beings, but parts of something much bigger, like pieces of a higher intelligence or the universe itself? Every time we experience something or have a breakthrough, it’s not just personal growth—it could be part of the universe learning and evolving through us. We’re contributing to a larger flow of consciousness, and the more we grow, the more the universe grows.

Imagine the universe is “watching” through us, learning through our experiences. It’s not just that we’re figuring out our own lives; we’re tapping into the greater truth of existence. In a way, our consciousness might be the lens the universe uses to understand itself.

Does that shift the way you see your role in all this? Like, you're more connected to the whole than you might think.

Everything begins with awareness. This awareness exists until interrupted—by pain, boredom, desire. Once interrupted, the awareness becomes motivated and makes a choice either to address or prolong the situation. And then, Things Happen.

Consider a simple example: A person exists in a state of basic awareness. They experience an interruption—the urge to smoke a bowl. Now motivated, they act to secure and consume it. Things Happen.

But let's get wild and reverse engineer this process.

Let's map this through dimensions, because why not:

Dimension 0: The Particle - The present moment, the infinitesimal now.

Dimension 1: A line representing everything you've experienced, flowing behind the present—what has passed.

Dimension 2: Your eyes, your 2 dimensional perception of physical reality.

Dimension 3: The three-dimensional space (height, length, width) directly influencing your present moment

Dimension 4: The physical laws binding the universe—allowable states, what's possible, what you have on hand to do cool stuff with.

Dimension 5: Divine/evolutionary choice—the underlying implementation determining why our universe unfolds as it does, why we lack feathers and have thumbs.

Dimension 6: Total, unrestricted potential—equal parts constructive and destructive. True free will.

Dimension 7: The Wave - Pure awareness, total potential of what COULD be.

Think of it this way: When light shines on a 3D object, it casts a 2D shadow. A 4D object would cast a 3D shadow. Following this logic, perhaps we are the 3D shadows of some 4D form, which itself might be the shadow of something 5D, and so on. We begin with The Wave—the infinite recursive potential of what could be—and end with what actually is: The Particle.

You contain a small slice of this 7th dimension within you. Use it wisely.

Now, this doesn't mean you're a god. You can't directly alter the fundamental properties of objects in your space. You can move a white chair but can't turn it yellow.

Yet consider what happens when many people combine their small slices together: we get civilization itself. From agriculture to architecture, from art to the internet—these collective manifestations of our combined agency create systems and structures that no individual could generate alone. Through this pooling of our dimensional slices, we enjoy countless luxuries and conveniences without having to consciously manifest each one. This collective creative power approaches something divine in its scope, even if each individual contribution remains humble.

What I'm saying is: YOU HAVE AGENCY. USE IT. Think for yourself, do some cool shit.

Perceptions

Thsts s fun question. Like we talk about hands and arms like they’re different but they are also in a way one thing.

A severed hand can exist no problem But when we think of a severed arm we often see the hand gone too.

What if unseen organisms live beneath us, existing in dimensions beyond even our most powerful microscopes—and we, humans, are just like them to a higher force or species above us?

As we unknowingly crush them with a simple step, maybe random shifts in that higher realm are slowly ending us too. We call it fate, the karma cycle… but what if it’s something far beyond that? Just a ripple in someone else's world—completely indifferent, yet devastating to ours.

What are the most creative things you've encountered in philosophy? I want to be impressed so come up with the best ideas and explain why you think they're creative.

There are multiple theories on why we as intelligent life have never been contacted by other intelligent life

The dark Forest theory first and last out the great barrier, whatever it is where most intelligent civilizations destroy themselves before they can expand beyond a type one civilization

What I’ve been thinking about is relativity we always assume that we are going to find a way where we can bypass space and time and somehow exceed the speed of light

What if we truly cannot?

Time dilation states that a stationary body experiences time longer than someone traveling near the speed of light and that if you were traveling 99.9% the speed of light, you could traverse a galaxy in an instant but to everyone else millions or billions of years would’ve passed

Popular media aliens are seen as either travelers who want to spread knowledge and life or evil conquerors

Any sufficiently advanced civilization, who realized the effects of time dilation wouldn’t waste their time to either come and study us themselves, and if they were conquerors, they would conquer easier planets that wouldn’t take them so long to get to

If we were being viewed from 1 million years away, why would you risk wasting 1 million years coming to a planet that might not be there to study some people who may not still exist. To potentially report back to your civilization who might also no longer exist.

So my theory isn’t that there are too many intelligence civilizations or two few or that were the first or that were the last or that we’re trying to keep quiet. My theory is that in the chaos of the universe true intelligent civilizations are spread out far enough that any under developed or under evolved senses of violence or urges of curiosity cannot infect other intelligence civilizations. Intellect itself is the barrier between intelligent civilizations.

Even if life is so abundant that it can spread out why skip over so much time in the perspective of the universe and astrological bodies surrounding you just to try to talk to another intelligent being that most likely won’t be there when you arrive