What makes you, you?

[Milk N Cookies]

Can you expound upon this in greater detail? What do you mean that your imagination is you?

It's an interesting concept

I have a vast imagination, as a kid I always made up games that the neighborhood kids played & made zero sense when I think back on it. I always entertained(as a teen) kids somehow, although I hated them being around. I made a boring day fun. I'm just random as all hell.

 

[Midrash]

I'm eccentric and I always have crazy ideas with an even crazier will to carry them out. Girls love it because I'm spontaneous so I don't wanna change.

 

[Chill]

My own personal experiences and my lifestyle causes me to have the outlook that I have currently. I have learned that I should always keep my own welfare in mind when making decisions and it's been pretty successful living this way. Includes run in's with karma. That's what defines me?

 

[observe]

I am light trapped in physical form. I experience my reality from other reflections of light . I know I exist because my radiation causes actions..

 

[Ciggavelli]

I am light trapped in physical form. I experience my reality from other reflections of light . I know I exist because my radiation causes actions..

This is also very interesting. The self is a reflection of the other.

Hmm....

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

My understanding and empathy.

 

[AkaDemiK]

The way i think

 

[Wild self]

I have a vast imagination, as a kid I always made up games that the neighborhood kids played & made zero sense when I think back on it. I always entertained(as a teen) kids somehow, although I hated them being around. I made a boring day fun. I'm just random as all hell.

What makes me, me is the fact that no one can predict what I'm thinking. I don't confine myself to no mental box, I don't be a part of statistics, and I don't do shyt of hat other 20 somethings of today do. In fact, I have an edge irl that 95% of the people look @ me as on the vast knowledge I have in everything.

 

[observe]

I don't think the self is static and whether it is illusion cannot be answered imo

Sometimes I feel like self isn't connected to body..my visual receptors could be remotely controlled from self..you ever feel that way?

 

[Ms.CuriousCat]

I don't think that anything that's alive can be static, by definition.

Physically you're always changing, mentally you...okay some people can be ridiculously stagnant but still that's not static and spiritually you can choose and do things to get more positive or get more negative

Ultimately who you are and what makes you you is complex and your answer depends on which part you're focusing on. There is also the you that you see and the one that others see.

 

[stealthbomber]

my physical being is the only thing that makes me, me

none of my thoughts, feelings, emotions, or experiences are singular to me

there have been others, my individual circumstances may be different, but over the course of history, probably not

in fact, the atoms of my body were another person at one point

it was a star billions of years ago

me being alive at this moment, right now, makes me different from you or anyone else, at this moment, right now

in 100 years there will be no more me

in 1000 years there will be no memory of me

in 10000 years there will be no more of this civilization

in 100000 years there will be no memory of this civilization

nothing makes me, me, except this last breath, and me pressing post reply right now

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

What happened in my past, how my mind thinks in the presence, and how im not prepared for the future
One moment, my mind thinks like someone who has traveled the world a thousand times, other times, its like the simplest ideas blow my mind.
My thoughts and imagination are like no other yet I can relate to so many different people of different backgrounds
My unconscious side lives vicariously through my conscious side sometimes.
Honestly, im just someone who's fukking out there in every possible way you can imagine and has no plans on conforming any idea, thought or process.

 

[Why-Fi]

i dont know

 

[yo moms]

i like to drink alcohol in public places

 

[Ciggavelli]

Sometimes I feel like self isn't connected to body..my visual receptors could be remotely controlled from self..you ever feel that way?

I've felt this too