A matter of Perspective...

[Heretic.Ape.]

I was thinking today (something I try to avoid--it doesn't pay) and I wished that there could be "Perspective in a Pill". I think most of us have moments where our heads seem to rise up briefly from the bullshit of the daily grind, unravels from the twist and twine of our own head-trips and everything seems so simple and good. You see everything in a type of simplicity that is hard to describe because the act of formulating the thought and putting it into words in itself complicates it.
Does this ever happen to you? You're sitting there at work/school/home/whatever when suddenly you're not thinking about whatever it was you were immersed in a moment ago. And the very fact that you're not immersed in anything in particular besides an open ended awareness of what's going on around you carries with it a certain profundity.
So many issues in politics, relationships, habits, everything can in a sense be boiled down to the fact that the time element and the bureaucracy inherent in carrying out anything spanning more than the act of say eating a banana tends to cause us to lose perspective, to "lose the reason" and to take for granted both the good things and the horrors that we have become acclimated to.
I think that the initial shock of psychedelic experiences have a tendency to brush away the cobwebs of cluttered perspective briefly which is why so many people go through a very idealistic phase after first getting into them as they look around with fresh eyes and are like "holy shit, this is the world I live in and take for granted every day?!". However it doesn't take long for a mind to acclimate and soon the psychedelic experience comes to hold its own head-trips, clutter, and mental-social bureaucracy.
I have no point ultimately for this thread. Just thinking...

[beentheredonethatagain]

dude I am feeling you. the moments of clearity shine through , like someone turnned on the light, and sometimes the light is just a flicker.

I get those waves too, it gets me to think, which is usually productive and it pays.

[Nature Boy]

I kind of sense what you're getting at H.A. SWIM often hits brief moments of great clarity also but finds that the experience is merely fleeting, lost in an instant without a medium to record it. Perhaps one day this clarity will become something others will revere, most likely it won't.

The more you go through this, the more you see the similarities in the ridiculous arguments we all have. Different solutions for different people in a mad world we do our best to make sense of. That's why I think a libertarian attitude in life is essential. Leave the inmates to their devices.

[TMM]

It happens every now and then. I wouldn't describe them as moments of clarity, though. At least to me, this sensation is not one of clarity or sense, but rather... heightened bemusement, so to speak. When reality momentarily ceases to make sense the way it once had, and completely mundane things such as the human form suddenly seem strange, absurd, ridiculous. This state usually throws out more questions than answers.

There is also a different state of mind I have occassionally, although I don't believe it is what you were referring to. It is when a concept suddenly makes perfect sense, but not in a linguistic way. My brain knows the exact answer to a problem, but is unable to express it via language. A very odd sensation.

[AetherPoison]

Originally Posted by TMM

There is also a different state of mind I have occassionally, although I don't believe it is what you were referring to. It is when a concept suddenly makes perfect sense, but not in a linguistic way. My brain knows the exact answer to a problem, but is unable to express it via language. A very odd sensation.

i know what you mean i think. sometimes you understand a concept better than anyone else, or have a solution that would work so perfectly to a situation, but you cant seem to voice your answers to anyone else, sort of something that only makes sense to yourself, but you know it would work. maybe thats what you mean, or maybe i have just lost it :P