Thread: what does it take to feel alive

Bleeding
Crippled steps on sore ankles
Operations on my weak gums
Fuzzy vision without glasses
Diahrhea
Heartburn
Stubbing my toe
Car accidents
Dying

Drrrrrrrrrinking baby

Feeling loved/loving

Having a crush on someone.....

Star gazin

Somethin sexy

Desire for vengeance

...and da dance floor!!!

I find that I need a balance of everything. Sadness, happyness, anger, joy, pain, fun...

If I feel too happy for too long I figure that something's wrong with me and suspect that pain will soon follow (it's the pattern of my life), so I do a few "doces" of pain by doing crazy stunts where I get hurt and feel like a moron.

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Having Paperdoll post somthing on feelings. LOL

I think you are right. With awareness comes a lot of other good things.
If you allow yourself to sleepwalk through life without becoming or trying to become aware, how much have you missed.
But I guess if you do not care then you reaaly are not missing anything. Just in the peoples eyes that are aware. They say ignorance is bliss.

What makes me happy, You sy looking up at the sky. I can relate,I like to look up at the clouds and ,well just that look -at them without a worry in the world. Even if it is brief.

Everything

Also remind yourself that we're not talking about "being alive" in literal sense as in "not being dead" we are talking about "sense of existance"(existancw wherever),
"sense of presence" , "awareness. So every single thing you lay your eyes apon, or everything single thing you even feel with your eyes closed, or even things you dont feel or touch.just..sense should ultimately make you feel aware, as it confirms your presence in the ever existant and ever lasting presence of the all, which is everything.

Quite a simple concept actually ^_^

Maybe I am missing the point but I always feel alive.

Getting a really good buzz at three in the morning and looking at the stars on a clear night. Then realizing that I'm looking into the past, and feeling so so so very small. That's when it really hits me, I'm alive.

I sort of agree with will.i.am

Sitting on a rock by the beach at night - looking into the stars
And you start feeling... well... philosophical about your place in time and space.

Thats the feeling of being alive, for me

Being alive...


To me it's realizing that in all eternity of human existance, no matter how 'civilized' and 'progressed' we may become, and no matter how many new things that are taught, discovered, and destroyed, we will never, not one person, know everything. The concept of our limited knowledge makes me at ease but uncomfortable at the same time. Perhaps it's the curiousity that maybe we are really, unimportant and overshadowed by something bigger that makes me uncomfortable, and the ease that maybe we are better off not knowing anything.

Think about it for a moment. We are a speck in this universe. We have fought primitively, even today, for something as rediculous as land and 'power', not realizing that we may just be wiped out any day by some cataclysmic event, or brought to nothing-ness in an instant. Some people do not realize that there are bigger and more spectacular things than a roughly circular sphere almost 13,000 kilometers in diameter with a breathable atmosphere. Big deal. I'll bet there are a million more like it, some with sentient beings, some with microorganizisms, some completely destroyed. I'm not talking about god or something here, I'm talking about existance itself. There is no physical way to feel non-existance, so who would care if we didn't exist? That is creepy...

If there were no humans left, we could no longer ponder our existance--but if there were no humans left, we would no longer realize our existance.

pain: i don't remember ever feeling more alive than when i was watching my fingers dangling by threads of skin.

love: there's something about driving to or away from someone you truly care for. i can't explain it, it just gives me a rush.

art: any kind. books, music, paintings, sculptures, movies... when i get overwhelmed with art i'm on another level.

creation: when i create something, be it a piece of art or a weld i feel a sense of accomplishment and purpose.

hunting: the feeling of a connection to nature is overwhelming. hunting an animal with senses that are far superior to yours with a bow and arrow is unexplainable.

danger: anytime i can hear my heart pounding in my head is a good moment. i.e. boxing.

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Originally posted by Adidas
pain: i don't remember ever feeling more alive than when i was watching my fingers dangling by threads of skin.

You have to elaborate on that one!

Hunting. Excellent point. Somthing you can not expieriance unless you are a "hunter".
Anti hunters put it into such a simplistic form - Kill - Wrong. {NO! Your wrong

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pain: i don't remember ever feeling more alive than when i was watching my fingers dangling by threads of skin.

You have to elaborate on that one!

Hunting. Excellent point. Somthing you can not expieriance unless you are a \"hunter\".
Anti hunters put it into such a simplistic form - Kill - Wrong. {NO! Your wrong [/b]

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....t=357&start=390

like 4th post down. i was in a car accident.

That is a hand? Sorry I asked!

The things that make me feel human (or perhaps more than human) are fairly simple things, like nature or music.

I live in Australia and I deeply love this country. I live real close to Mount Ainslie and I have a lot of memories of walking through the golden brown and powdery blues and greens of the bush.

Also, there are some songs that I hear or play sometimes that just melt me, and that's a great feeling.

. Pondering existence and what else is out there doesnt do much for me, in fact a lot of times it's kinda frustrating, like a bubble of thought in my mind that Im fearful to touch lest it pops.

we're talking about feeling alive not human. two completely different things.

The things that make me feel alive would have to be waking up in the morning knowing I have a good life, Listening to music, helping someone, reading a book, taking a walk, and when I write poetry or stories.

Listening to something that all of a sudden hits me like a ton of bricks like someone dying or being hurt or something moving like that makes me feel that i am alive.

Fighting for one's life is the ultimate affirmation of it.

Yea but i have never done that.

I used to remember at a really young age, maybe about 4 or 5, I would always look at my hands in fear and I would say or think to myself "Oh No, I'm Alive!" Because I new at that age that I was actually living and new I would have to die to go back. And I feared death since a very young age.

Now that was a fearfull way to feel alive.

Originally posted by Paperdoll EP
we're talking about feeling alive not human. two completely different things.

What if feeling human makes you feel alive? Or to feel alive you must feel human?

Another thing that makes me feel alive is water. When i am swimming or waterskiing or any thng in/on water i feel so alive.

Giving birth to my child is the meaning of life for me. I created and witnessed a new life, a being, with feelings and needs come into this world. I think all procreation of any kind is a sign that we are all alive and for a very short time.