FLUCTUATION IN SUPERHUMAN ABILITIES

polystyle

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Could be a fav Luka generated thread .

COVID sure did turn things right upside down.
Having to respond , to actively think about surviving.
Living day to day, week to week , month to month and now more than a year.
If not a superpower, certainly a power / ability, each person w techniques, modes to live on, help them live through.

Superpowers ? some telepathy and pre cog , the pre cog possibly having to do with the dialed in feeling, feeling comfortable ( but not same as satisfied ).
Examples come when one may not expect it.
As said above, leaving room for it may be a key, possibly akin to what Version said.
All in all, making it so this far gives one confidence to continue some things one did previously.
And shuck some other things, as needed.

Could be similar to the idea men seem to get that one can go out and find love, find sex or a friend mainly when THEY want to do so.
Get in tune and things may come.
Making predictions and seeing how things turned out can serve to make benchmarks, like a year check on 'what's really up now ?'.

And as said above again ( Leo ? ), simply stepping away from daily BS,
tendency to say rather then think twice and not say , be online , in public or with friends.
'Friends' is a whole thread in itself right ?

And as Eden said on mistakes , agreed as one has to first try and see what's good.
Much better to try and use the info results to determine what might be next, what one likes , what seems best.

Environment got to be a factor in feeling super powers.
Same as feeling ' it is your time ?'
Time to make hay while ... ?

Weed can be factor sure.
The ' 50 thoughts per minute ' good THC buzz makes for a good , useful day.
Now the delivery guys show up with containers detailing ( super detailing ? )
CBD , THC and so on.
Gives one a feeling of control , choice.
Sometimes i end up accepting whatever it is the guy hands me and not as closely noticing if it is CBD or THC.
Life goes on as it was.
Konks my lady right out !

Getting out of things and coming back - like when one moves - seems to work, shakes things up.
Likewise looking into last years datebook, notes, words, stories, music and people noted.
Changing yer patterns of behavior - as version said about washing the dishes.
Moving itself though can be pretty stressy !
 
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version

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aka, living a normal life, good to hear. it's so easy to get all riled up online, social media especially. once you lose twitter fomo, you realize 98% of the conversation is immaterial.
I think it runs deeper than just social media; I stopped using Facebook and Twitter years ago and my engagement with the news is always ebbing and flowing. There's something about the amount of information at your fingertips online that can prompt a manic energy in itself, like dumping a huge bag of coke in front of someone or vast quantities of chocolate. There's the compulsion to try to drink the waterfall, absorb all of it.

Conversation can move incredibly quickly online too, particularly when you throw in memes and whatnot.
 

version

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Getting out of things and coming back - like when one moves - seems to work, shales things up.
Likewise looking into last years datebook, notes, words, stories, music and people noted.
Changing yer patterns of behavior - as version said about washing the dishes.
Moving itself though can be pretty stressy !
I moved a bunch of stuff around recently, got rid of some old stuff I had lying around etc. It definitely has an effect. It doesn't even have to be something particularly big or have any sort of greater significance ascribed to it, e.g. I moved some stuff around on the desk where my monitor is and just having different things either side of it, a different arrangement of space in my field of vision, made me feel very weird. I still haven't quite adjusted to it, just looks/feels "off".
 

polystyle

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I think it runs deeper than just social media; I stopped using Facebook and Twitter years ago and my engagement with the news is always ebbing and flowing. There's something about the amount of information at your fingertips online that can prompt a manic energy in itself, like dumping a huge bag of coke in front of someone or vast quantities of chocolate. There's the compulsion to try to drink the waterfall, absorb all of it.

Conversation can move incredibly quickly online too, particularly when you throw in memes and whatnot.

Upon re reading Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties last night,
some of the better parts were Laney trying to get ALL the flow.
All the data he had access to.
" When he closes his eyes, even before he put the eyephones on, he seems to plunge into the flow of data."
 
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