Why Not Hallucinate What You Want?
Then if you stare at them the right way, a cool image appears, suddenly out of nowhere.
Some people are better at “getting it” than others. It usually took me a while.
Most of us aren’t used to looking at a flat object as if it were in three dimensions.
There’s plenty of other images that are specifically designed to “trick” the mind.
Old ladies that suddenly morph into young girls, a lamp that suddenly turns into two people about to kiss, stairs that go up in a loop, but really don’t go up at all.
One of the biggest tricks of the mind is one we play on ourselves.
We can “negatively hallucinate” something, meaning it’s right in front of us, but we can’t see it.
(Guys are particularly good at this, especially when looking for our keys).
Or we can think something is there, when there’s not. Like when somebody looks at us with a plain expression on their face, and we read WAY too much into the situation.
The trouble is that we respond not to reality itself, but our interpretation of reality.
Even if our keys are right there, since we can’t see them, we’ll keep looking, and end up being late to wherever we’re going.
We could have talked to that person, and turned their genuine neutral feelings about us into something positive, but since we imagined they were angry or judgmental or whatever, we never even held eye contact for more than a split second.
The good news it that our perception of reality is TOTALLY flexible, AND it’s TOTALLY up to us.
Do you think our keys really care if we find them or not?
Even better, that neutral person would LOVE for us to turn them into a “positive-feelings” person, so they’re actually hoping we’ll perceive them differently than we have been.
This skill is rarely talked about, let alone taught, but it exists, and learning it is perhaps the most important thing you can do.
Since there’s so much “stuff’ out there to choose from, why not choose things that support you?
Why not “imagine” people are dying for you to talk to them?
Why not “imagine” that opportunities are everywhere, just waiting to scoop them up?
Why not “imagine” that your biggest and most compelling plans in life are not only easy, but the whole reason you were put here?
All you’ve got to do is shift your mind, and you’ll see.