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- Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:55 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: Parallel (Dual) Consciousness Episode
- Replies: 3
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Re: Parallel (Dual) Consciousness Episode
No, I wouldn't say it was traumatic at all. I found it facinating, even at the time. Although part of me was crying over not being able to pick up the spoon, I didn't have any awareness of sad feelings. That tends to be the hallmark of my experience of depression, an absence of emotional feelings. I...
- Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:53 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: Parallel (Dual) Consciousness Episode
- Replies: 3
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Parallel (Dual) Consciousness Episode
I am a PhD-trained cognitive psychologist, 15 years post dissertation. I have also been diagnosed with type II bipolar disorder and am living quite well with very effective medication. Many years ago I had an experience related to a major depressive episode which may bear on the Jaynesian discussion...
- Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:19 pm
- Forum: 2.2. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind | Subtopic: Hallucinations & Imaginary Companions in Children
- Topic: Imaginary Friends
- Replies: 6
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Re: Imaginary Friends
I do remember playing with imaginary playmates and when an adult would come into the room and ask with whom I was speaking I would answer "just pretending!" I remember them as just that, pretend. I remember instances of using them to replay a social interaction that had occured with a sibl...