Just wondering about this.

I have a friend who sometimes just specifically craves a certain dish from a certain food chain. (Like wicked wings from KFC or something)

Or they suddenly feel like watching a specific show (Like Boston Legal)

How does that work?
I never seem to experience something similar to that.
Is it common to feel like that?

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 hours ago

    Pretty normal stuff

    For humans it is normal. The “simple” function as you call it, is actually the foundation for consciousness.

    • AloneDownUnder@quokk.auOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      For me it’s not simple though. Does that make me non-human? I’m really surprised this is considered a basic thing.

    • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Not saying this is OP specifically or anything, but I have long suspected that some fellow humans just aren’t as…conscious/sapient as the rest of us. Like literal NPCs. It would explain a lot. No I’m not talking about anything race or eugenics related, not going there at ALL. Just sometimes I’ve met people and wondered “…did we grow up on the same planet?”

      • AloneDownUnder@quokk.auOPEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        It’s strange. I’ve been in a state of shutdown and disconnect for most of my life. Only recently with lot’s of meditation, I’ve reached a point where I (sometimes) am aware of my own needs and emotions.

        When I look at other people I’m amazed by the capacities they have.

        • They can think about their needs and desire while having a conversation
        • When sitting still and not doing anything, they automatically start thinking about a bunch of things they still want to do or things that happened in the past
        • They can hold their preferences in their head in any circumstance
        • At any given time they have an idea of their priorities or needs.
        • They feel it automatically when they have a certain need, like water, food, connection, etc…

        I suppose this is normal for most people? But for me it has been only a very recent experience, and most of the time I still can’t

        An example of this is meditation. When I sit down to meditate and focus on my breathing, and do this for 1-2 hours, I don’t experience any thoughts about future plans or things that happened before.

        However, with consistency, this seems to be happening occasionally for me now from time to time.

        A few years ago just talking was already pretty hard for me. Nowadays I manage, but it’s mostly talking in a way that I’ve learned from patterns in how other people talk, and i’m not necessarily able to communicate my own state of mind to other people that easily.