Comments | jarne: Where are you?

jarne

Where are you?

Oct 04, 2007 23:04

Lately I've developed a fascination with proprioception proprioception and kinesthesis , two big and slightly synonymous words. This fascination started when I realized that a distortion of those two senses might account for some really strange stuff that has happened to me once in a while since I was about seven ( Read more... )

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mommyrex October 5 2007, 03:25:29 UTC

I don't have an answer but you reminded me that my middle child would hold his cheek when his feelings were hurt, and demand a kiss there as well.

My youngest often says his heart "won't let him" stop crying, or something like that, and he locates his heart around his bellybutton.

jarne October 7 2007, 18:24:25 UTC

Hmm... I wonder if kids have a different location for their "self" than adults.

mommyrex October 7 2007, 18:35:17 UTC

Well, do you have a location for your 'self'?

When I'm being crazy, I think of it as originating in my head (brain-->mind, I guess). More emotional things I guess I think of as existing in the core, or heart.

Of course, when I THINK about it, I don't place my "self" within my body at all. I don't physically exist, as far as I can tell.

jarne October 9 2007, 02:34:07 UTC

Now the last sentence has got me curious.

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morethings5 October 5 2007, 04:45:26 UTC

I locate myself in the cosmos that surround me. I perceive the world, of course, from my cyclopean eye, but I know that I am not there, as we all must come to terms with.

jarne October 7 2007, 18:25:04 UTC

So, nothing is above you or below you? Nothing to the left or right? Everything is around you?

ginsing825 October 5 2007, 20:46:08 UTC

My real self is definitely located around my solar plexus. That's my 'center.'

jarne October 7 2007, 18:25:51 UTC

Your head is above you, then?

ginsing825 October 7 2007, 20:24:43 UTC

I guess so... Most people's energy fields extend two to three feet around them, and I just sense mine being strongest around my stomach. Of course, enrgies are constantly shifting, so it can depend on my mood.

jarne October 9 2007, 02:35:02 UTC

So you don't view yourself as having a definite location for your "self"?

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kdsorceress October 6 2007, 02:21:56 UTC

I've been thinking about this on and off, and I'm not sure my realself exists. If it does, it's probably in my eyes.

More to follow, I suppose.

~Sor

tigereye17 October 6 2007, 18:14:08 UTC

ermmmmm maybe my eyes or my back? my back is important. then again, my eyebrows are the ones that are always sore, like they're carrying the weight of my head.