The Subjective Activational Baseline
Emotional Regulation strategies act along a fluid baseline, personalized and dynamic, which governs the degree of overall emotional activation to a situation . Each regulatory strategy modulates the degree of reaction to an activating situation, and its overall effectiveness is depend upon the positive or negative degree of this baseline level. Yet
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It happens in dreams all the time. Places that don't even make sense in any context can seem completely normal and familiar with a whole set of faux holographic memory associations to support the facade.
I've spent enough effort seeking 'thoughts create reality' to say definitively that, while it's true that changing one's attitude can open doors and opportunities, and there is an element of co-creation to it, the power and momentum of circumstance dwarfs our puny human will.
All of our wants and needs, our dreams and aspirations, are visible to us only through the lens of our own personal, social, collective, and anthropo-somatic existence. Life is not a vending machine. If you're lucky enough that it's wishes appear to coincide with your own for a time, then treasure that memory because for most people the only dreams that come true are the dullest, most realistic ones. A job, any job. A partner. A decent place to live. It's not a lot, but hey, at least we have an easier time than the other 90% of the people on the planet (guess our higher selves knew how to pick a good continent to be born in).
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For instance, I can remember the day I woke up and thought "Why the hell would I dream of seeing the back of my friend Brian's green jeep, and him hitting the brakes as he approached a bridge? What a fucking retarded dream!"
It wasn't until nearly a year later, on our return trip from MSU for Christmas break, that that particular dream took place, the overwhelming deja vu experience being felt by me, driving alone in the car behind him.
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