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I go past where this accident happened every day and yesterday after seeing the railings smashed to pieces whilst stuck in a traffic queue I wondered what had happened and thought a boy racer had lost control of his car like so many have done in the past whilst racing at up to 80mph in a 40mph zone.
After seeing this article on the front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph today when I went past the scene tonight my stomach turned knowing what had happened there yesterday like I'm sure many other people would.
But I was thinking about other less tragic times when I seem to experience other peoples pain and discomfort even though I don't know them and have never met them. For example last night watching Hells Kitchen when Gordon Ramsay was ripping into the contestants I seemed to get the same feeling as if I was there and it was happening to me.
It might just be because it's a programme I get really into but I was just wondering if anyone else experiences the same thing and how strong the feelings are?
> "One," as in human, or with the universe? :)
In the babies, 'one' as in a part of one collective self.
Which is strikingly similar to some systems of philosophy...
> These types of men are what us gals refer to as
> "projects."
When women think like this, do you think it's a genuine maternal-esque desire to help people grow, or the mind's way of reconciling the conscious awareness of the social flaws of the person with the underlying attraction to someone bearing those flaws?
> The other side of this, which also may go some way to explaining
> shared feelings is that our brains are sending and receiving
> signals which are basically just sparks of electricity. It is
> quite possible that this energy may be able to travel and
> connect with someone else.
Ahhh, I love this kind of stuff.
People can read each other, 'vibe' with each other, with an incredible level of perception of the other person's feelings.
Is it simply subconscious perception and interpretation of subtle clues in body language and voice tonality, or is it another form of communication we don't really understand yet - radiation.. models of the nature of consciousness or something..?
If we admit that there are things yet to be discovered, the inner workings of the brain seem like a rich field of discovery.
> These types of men are what us gals refer to as
> "projects."
>
> When women think like this, do you think it's a genuine
> maternal-esque desire to help people grow, or the mind's way of
> reconciling the conscious awareness of the social flaws of the
> person with the underlying attraction to someone bearing those
> flaws?
It could very well be a pleasant blend of both rationales. Although I believe it's just the female species to have a robust nurturing tract inlayed in our chromosomes (most likely because we're the one's that bear children), this "project" individual I speak of comes in both genders, just to clarify. Men do also fall prey, but I don't believe that it's so much an inbourne trait to initially be maternal-esque (heh), than it is a learned one. Peace to ma gay peeps, I'm speaking in generalities here..
Now, metaphorically speaking, when it comes to the involvement with a "project," it's like rubbernecking the incident of an accident causing a traffic jam. Some people actually stop to help and render aid in all their empathetic maternal resourcefulness, but end up getting rear-ended in the process, because they weren't watching themselves. In esscence, they create a secondary problem to the problem that wasn't theirs to resolve to begin with.
The moral of the story? I don't really know, everyone's got issues. I suppose if we're not secure with ourselves and careful with our boundaries though, we can become co-dependent or enabling in the relational feelings and nurturing of the project at hand. It, in effect, becomes draama.
I don't usually pick up on someone's mood unless they're giving obvious physical signs.
Interesting subject.