Emotions you dont use dont disappear they just get reassigned to something stupid. seen guys lose their whole mind over a parking spot because they havent cried since years. the anger is still in there it just forgot what it was originally about. fear you keep ignoring starts attaching itself to random objects now you cant fly now you cant drive now you cant leave the house and you think its a new problem but its the same old fear wearing different masks because you never let it speak. one year of unfelt grief converts to three years of numbness the exchange rate is brutal. the body is running these emotions in the background whether you acknowledge them or not
Believe you are chosen. believe it stupid. believe it blind. brute force your delusion into the skin of the world until the world gives up and says fine. i have seen men with nothing become something just because they refused to receive the news of their own smallness. the lie believed hard enough converts the liar and the lie was never a lie it was just truth that arrived early
@TylerAlterman Many of these phenomena appear to be context- and state-dependent. Expecting them to repeat cleanly under lab conditions may lead to more confusion than consensus.