Live from inside the brain

You can just watch how it works, right?

When we talk about something familiar, my energy first flies past the boxes we already know (memories), and then we soar toward the new connections.

What’s so scary about that?

So, make sure those pockets are well-filled with different subjects, and that you know many different types of people.

Relative importance pops up to see what is missing.

Elegant system.

Momentje rust

Hebben jullie niet dat je je brein aan de binnenkant kunt zien?

Letterlijk.

Ik heb altijd 2 keuzes.

Aan de ene kant 1 keuze,
en aan de andere kant alle andere keuzes.

En als je daarna bij een nieuwe beslissing komt,
is alles ook weer ineens anders.

*Tijdelijk zichtbaar

A Moment of Rest

Don’t you ever feel like you can see your brain from the inside?

Literally.

I always have two choices.

On one side, one choice.
On the other side, all the other choices.

And when you arrive at a new decision,
everything suddenly changes again.

*Temporarily Visible

To understand what multidimensional means, you have to know what one-dimensional is.

One-dimensional means, for example, that you only look at food through the dimension of calories.

So you don’t look at taste, nutritional value, things you can cook with it, what your body needs—but only strictly at the calorie count.

A lot of people who have done this realize this feels “off”.

The reason is because you are building a one-dimensional relationship with something. All other relationships with food that are also important—like what your body needs (something different every day)—get pushed away.

Another example of a one-dimensional relationship is only looking at women sexually.

Or only looking at reality as a series of causal events (this happens a lot in science). For example with anxiety. I have probably seen a thousand books of people talking about why a lot of people have anxiety (prehistoric brains, survival mechanisms, stress, and so on), but a relatively low amount of people saying: “I am scared.” This doesn’t necessarily need a causal explanation.

Why people are depressed

There is no such thing as a single cause for why something happens. Why people are depressed:

  • watching the news

  • food

  • social media

  • lack of human contact, empathy

  • lack of meaning

  • lack of challenge

  • no religion, spirituality

  • forgetting how to cry

  • trauma

  • wrongly learned behaviour

  • thousands and thousands more reasons

So the problem with a label like depression is that there are no two depressions that are the same; they only look a little bit alike.

Do you know what the biggest reason is that people are depressed? They don’t like life as much as they used to. And that is because of the things we do, this ego-tripping world we are in. There is way too much pressure to work full-time, work out every day. The fun is out of the equation.

Why does an apple fall from the tree?
Because gravity. But also a thousand other reasons.