Thread: Ever had one of these moments? (Brief feeling of omniscience)

First paragraph, all the time, especially on school buses like you said. I think it has to do with exaustion from getting up early. Second paragraph, can't say I have.

That sounds very similar to something that happens to me once in a while, but it's more like profound realization. I never thought anyone else experienced it. It happens when I look at something and think in my head, "I'm really looking at this. This is really here." And it feels like I'm a total outsider and I just woke up from something. It's like I'm in the Matrix and I'm seeing it for what it really is at that moment. It's a kind of scary feeling like you don't know what to do next, because you are no longer part of this reality. Everything you did before was automatic responses to what you thought was reality, but now everything you do will be your decision and nothing in this life matters anymore. I don't snap out of it and forget what I was thinking about, but I can, and always have been, almost able to do it on command......there, I just looked over at the things around me and did it. It feels really strange. I wonder if there is a name for it.

It's called meditation.

Really? That's what happens when you meditate? I thought you had your eyes closed when you meditate. I'll have to look into meditating more. It never interested me until now.

Originally Posted by Alucinor XIII

Alright, I'm well aware this is going to sound like something a stoner would say, but anywho.

Occasionally, I sorta space out and just start thinking about things-- most notably on the bus ride home where I have to shut out all the noise. It's never really anything in specific, I just begin thinking, and allow my mind to wander freely on subjects and speculate without too much inhibition. Unfortunately, having it wandering so "freely" usually leaves me forgetting 95% of whatever I was thinking about.

Every now and then, I get this feeling of complete alienation from this world that's hard to explain, almost as if I'm an observer of some show and I've already read the script, or like I've discovered some sort of secret to life. (Not that I actually think I have, mind you.) And, as stated above, I snap out of it and have no idea what I was thinking about, and only remember that feeling.

Ever had this happen, or am I just weirder than I thought? And, once again, no, I'm not, nor was I, stoned. xP

Dude same here. It is a form of meditating. I lay down and just think, and I have waves of energy supporting my thoughts, then 50% of the time I fall asleep.

Yeah, this has happened to me before. It still does when I "think" too much, but very rarely.
I'd describe it as a very brief form of pure happiness, you know, something like enlightenment I guess. I remember it happening once due to a feeling of omniscience you describe, everything felt like it made sense and all I could do about it was laugh and be happy. It lasts only seconds though. Otherwise my life would be perfect.

It happens to me too much and I don't even do drugs. Because I'm not thinking on some specific thing, there are no feelings to feel.

I occasionally get the feeling of omniscience, but in the sense that I am putting myself into everyones shoes simultaneously in any given situation. That, of course, is purposeful.

The omniscience you describe is something I think happens to everyone now and then. I'll literally blank out for minutes at a time, then just kind of come to realizing that I had blanked out and wonder how I did it or what I was thinking about in that duration. Sometimes it just comes and goes, to be honest.

Yeah, I think I know the feeling you guys are talking about as well. I used to get it quite often, but I haven't had it in the past year or two now, and I had almost forgotten entirely about it until reading this.... It's like I feel like I've suddenly solved one of the worlds greatest mysteries, and in a split second it's gone, and I can't remember what it was that had just clicked and made so much sense in my head. I wonder why it doesn't happen to me anymore....

me too i used to think i was just zoning out but now i can people that i meditate.

I get this waaay too often. So I have meditated before =) This is also a good way to fall into SP and then WILD.

I'm not sure if this is relavant but I wrote this in my DJ:

I feel as though life is a dream and I am semi Lucid. I am able to see the skin of ignorance, invisible to most, which covers all of existance. I am not able to break through, but I know it's there trapping us, deluding us. Consciousness, which seems so pure and fresh to you, stinks of pollution and deceit. Reality may seem real, but once I am truly awake I will know Lucidity.